Component Materials of a Material or Compliance Process

The Component Materials page lists other materials that are components of a material or compliance process.

For a compliance process, there is no quantity information for the component material. Materials Compliance Management uses "Unknown" as the quantity value. If you add a material that has weight defined, the export skips the wight value.

Required access roles:

  • Baseline: Author, Leader
  • App-specific: Compliance Engineer, Senior Compliance Engineer

To access this page for a material:

  1. Open the Composition PowerView for the required material. For more information, see Composition PowerView Tabs.
  2. Click the Component Materials tab.

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Columns for a Material

If any component material uses the Unknown quantity type, none of the other component materials can use the Fill quantity type. If any component material uses the Fill quantity type, none of the other components can use the Unknown quantity type.

Column Name Description
Title The material title.
Weight The weight of the material.
Weight U of M The weight unit of measurement.
Revision Level For external materials, the revision level.
Quantity Type How the Weight is calculated:

Value Description
Fill The app calculates the weight when you click Save. Only one material in the list can have Fill selected.

When using Fill, all components must use either percentage, range, or PPM as the Weight Unit of Measure.

Specified Enter a value for weight.
Unkown Only shows if IPC 1754 is enabled and your Business Administrator has enabled Unknown as a quantity type. When selected, the app uses the minimum and maximum values for rolling up compliance.

Type The object type of the material.
Revision For internal materials, the revision number.
Revision Status Blank for any type of material other than internal material, and blank for the latest revision of an internal material.

For an internal material, shows an orange square if a higher revision exists. Hover over the square to view the level of the higher revision. Click to open the higher revision in a new window. if the higher revision is obsolete the orange square does not show.

Number The quantity of this material in the material composition.
Manufacturer The manufacturer of the material.
Trade Name The trade name of the material.
Description The description of the material.

Columns for a Compliance Process

When viewing the Composition PowerView for a compliance process, you see these columns:

Column Name Description
Title The material title.
Type The object type of the material.
Rev The revision number.
Number The quantity of this material in the material composition.
Manufacturer The manufacturer of the material.
Trade Name The trade name of the material.
Description The description of the material.

Actions/Toolbar Commands

For the Component Materials tab for a compliance process, you only see the Add Existing and Remove actions.

Action Description For More Information
Create Material Creates a new material. Creating Materials
Add Existing Adds an existing material. You must first click Enable Edit. About Searches
Update to Latest Material Revision Replaces the selected internal material with the latest revision of that internal material. –
Remove Removes the selected material from the list. –
Enable Edit / Disable Edit Allows editing of the materials. –