About User Tasks

A manufacturing plant is a manufacturing location attached to a company. A lead plant and many parallel plants can be assigned to a part. When a part is released or revised, the system automatically creates MBOMs and MCOs for the assigned plants.

Features and functions supported by the manufacturing plant options include:

• Assigning Manufacturing Responsibility
• Manufacturing Responsibility
• Manufacturing Responsibility Assignments
• Bypassing a CA Implementation in a Specific Plant

A manufacturing substitute is a component or an assembly that is a suitable replacement for one or more parts in only one assembly in which the original parts occur. Manufacturing substitutes are defined in EBOMs with values for EBOM attributes like Find Number and Quantity the same as or different from that of the parts substituted by them.

Once defined and released in an EBOM, a manufacturing substitute can be added to an MBOM by a Manufacturing Engineer.

Features and functions supported by the manufacturing substitute options include:

• Manufacturing Substitutes
• Editing Manufacturing Substitutes
• Removing Manufacturing Substitutes

Manufacturing parts contain manufacturing-specific information, and are defined and added to MBOMs by a Manufacturing Engineer. Manufacturing BOM Management provides the tools to create and modify manufacturing parts and related items including MBOMs and supporting documents. Intelligent links are maintained between objects at all times, making it easy to navigate and locate necessary information.

Manufacturing BOM Management has the following three types of manufacturing parts:

• Material Part
• Support Part
• Phantom Part

Features and functions supported by the manufacturing part options include:

• Creating a Manufacturing Part or a revision of a part
• Part Properties
• Duplicating a Part
• Generating Where Used in MBOM Reports

The Manufacturing Bill of Materials (MBOM) is a tabulated statement of all parts to be included or required in manufacturing an assembly. It contains all information that is present in the corresponding EBOM such as find numbers, reference designators, unit of measure, quantity, description, and usage; plus additional manufacturing-specific information like manufacturing usage code, manufacturing usage description, raw materials and intermediate parts (material parts), fictitious assemblies to group parts (phantom parts) and other miscellaneous manufacturing information (support parts). The MBOM for a part is shown in the MBOM Plant-Specific tab of the part's Bill of Materials page. It serves as a central source of information about each part in an MBOM.

Features and functions supported by the MBOM options include:

• Generating an MBOM
• Editing an MBOM
• Copying an MBOM between plants
• Generating a BOM Structure Comparison Report with EBOMs or MBOMs based on assembly, date and plant
• Inserting a Phantom Part in an MBOM
• Removing a Phantom Part
• Adding Manufacturing Parts to a BOM
• Removing Manufacturing Parts From a BOM
• Replacing Manufacturing Parts in an MBOM

The manufacturing change features of Manufacturing BOM Management help to formalize, document, and control the manufacturing change process for existing manufacturing parts and MBOMs. A Manufacturing Change Order (MCO) is required for releasing any manufacturing change.

A manufacturing change can occur in either of the following cases.

• Engineering-initiated changes: Design Engineering changes released by CAs are automatically copied onto corresponding MBOMs as changes. The system automatically creates new MCOs to release these changes.
• Manufacturing-initiated changes: Manufacturing Engineering can initiate changes in an MBOM that do not violate the design engineering intent. These changes could be released by creating a new MCO or using any existing MCO in the Create state that was created for the same plant.

Features and functions supported by the manufacturing change options include:

• Creating an MCO
• Copying an MCO
• Adding Parts to an MCO
• Affected Plants
• Creating an MECO
• Creating a DCR