About B.I. Essentials

B.I. Essentials can be used to analyze the implement links between PPR objects available in the current navigation session. It is possible to determine by means of a color code which objects are linked to a given object of any type.

To access the B.I. Essentials list, from the Tools section of the action bar, select B.I. Essentials .

The command can be applied to one or more objects.

Different colors are applied to the various objects, depending on the relationships between the user-selected objects and all the other expanded objects. It also possible to click the different labels in the panel to select the objects belonging to the chosen categories.

This page discusses:

Activation of B.I. Essentials
Scope and Implement Links
Identification of Objects

Activation of B.I. Essentials

B.I. Essentials can be activated for implement link analysis either after selecting an object in the 3D or tree, or even without selecting any object.

If an object was selected before the quadrant is activated, it is highlighted in the tree as well as in the 3D view. Links analysis is made from this object.

If no object is selected when the quadrant is activated, all elements in 3D view are colored gray, but remain available for selection. Links analysis can then be done for any of these objects, as soon as an object is selected.

After B.I. Essentials activation, objects linked to the selected object are colored as follows:

Green: Implementing object
Blue: Implemented object
Yellow: Implemented and implementing object
Orange: Not linked
Gray: Not implemented by selected objects

Selection of any other gray colored object is taken into account and a display update shows the linked objects for this new selected object. Previously colored objects are gray in this case, if they are not linked to the new selected object.

When B.I. Essentials is activated, a label is displayed for the selected object. The content of this label is as follows:

Icon and name of the selected object
Number of implemented and implementing objects, displayed on different lines

It is possible to select several objects and then activate the command through the B.I. Essentials panel.

Once Implement links analysis is selected in B.I. Essentials, it is possible to click on each label to select the implementing and implemented objects in addition to the manually selected objects.

It is possible to combine the selection of the objects associated with different link analysis labels by holding the Ctrl key and clicking on the different labels.

Note: In the Navigation tab of Me

> Preferences > General > Display, you are recommended to use a value of less than 50 for the Limit display of manipulators to ... element(s) option when using implement link analysis.

Scope and Implement Links

Scope links connect two PPR references. Implement links connect two PPR occurrences.

Scope links are as follows:

Resource-system scope links
System-manufactured item scope links
Manufactured item-product scope links

An implement link may be created only if a scope link has been created at a higher level. References connected by a scope link define the context of the occurrences connected by implement links.

An implement link between two objects specifies that one object realizes the second one. Various implement links can be created between products, manufactured items, systems, operations, and resources.

For a system, the following links are possible:

Implemented manufactured items
Resources implementing this system

For an operation, links to implemented manufactured items and implementing resources are possible.

For a resource, links to implemented systems and operations are possible. A non-organizational resource can implement an operation. Usually, several resources implement one operation, to define who is doing the operation, with which device, and where. In that case, there is only one connection linking the operation and the different resources.

For a manufactured item, the following links are possible:

Systems or operations implementing this manufactured item
Implemented products

For a product, links to manufactured items implementing this product are possible.

Identification of Objects

In Manufacturing Finder, B.I. Essentials allows objects with an implement link to a selected object to be identified by means of a color code.

Colors available for linked objects are the following:

Implementing Object is green
Implemented Object is blue
Implemented and Implementing Object is yellow

Objects that are not linked are colored red. Objects that are not implemented by the selected object(s) are colored white.

Colors are applied on the 3D view of the objects and in the tree.

If the selected object is a system or operation, possible linked objects are manufactured items, colored blue (implemented object) and resources, colored green (implementing object).

If the selected object is a product, possible linked objects are manufactured items, colored green (implementing object).

If the selected object is a resource, possible linked objects are systems or operations, colored blue (implemented object).