Creating Systems with Explicit Attributes

You can create systems in the System Editor while defining the attributes explicitly in a dialog box for each system.

Before you begin: Under Add > Content, verify that the Set attributes at creation option is selected when you right-click the required system type in the New Content dialog box. Start Process Planning: the System Editor opens and a root system is created.
See Also
About Systems
Creating a System
Inserting an Existing System
  1. Right-click the system tile on the grid or the system node in the tree and click Insert > General System in the context menu.
    The General System dialog box appears.

    It provides access to the main attributes of the system to be created.

    General System tab
    • Name
    • Title
    • Description
    • Applicability Date
    • Capacity
    • Mean time between failures.
    • Mean time to repair.
    • Total production time
    • Cycle Time
    • Route Queuing Mode
    • Accept Queuing Mode.
    • Route Mode
    • Accept Mode.
    • Operation Mode
    Configuration tab
    Configuration criteria for Variant and Evolution types. For more information, see Understanding Effectivity Criteria in the Configured Engineering User's Guide.

  2. Enter any required attribute values and click OK.
    The system is created in the System Editor with the assigned attribute values.
  3. Continue to add systems to the system structure in the same way, defining the attribute values for each system.

Notes:
  • Sometimes the Set attributes at creation option is not selected when you right-click the required system type in the New Content dialog box. In this case, the attributes dialog box does not appear when creating a system. The system is created with default values.
  • The attributes of a system can be modified at any time by right-clicking the system tile or tree node and selecting Properties. See Using the System Editor.