About Enabling and Disabling Components for Compliance

Materials Compliance Management uses a rollup process that determines product compliance from the compliance of underlying components in the EBOM. In some cases, a design BOM may contain parts that should not be considered for compliance calculations because they are components representing tooling or packaging that are not part of the final delivered product.

Compliance Engineers cannot remove components that should not be included in compliance calculations from an Engineering BOM Management EBOM. Instead, they can disable these components for compliance, which causes them to be ignored in all compliance calculations. All Engineering BOM Management parts are enabled for compliance.

The recommended business process for an Author or Compliance Engineer is to first review the design EBOM of a product and disable any parts that should not impact the overall compliance of the top level product. Types of parts that could fall into this category are Tooling, Packaging, Phantom parts, Accessories (extract parts), User Guides, and Software parts.