Loading Required Products and Parts to Items

You can assign required Products and Parts to items, making use of work delegation capabilities.

You can delegate the item detailing work to different persons, with the minimum required data loaded in session. You can also provide flexibility with different types of Product structures that can either be very structured or have only a few Product structure levels.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: In Me > Preferences > App Preferences > Simulation > Process Engineering > Manufactured Item Definition > Item Grid Editor, select the Insert product in PPR structure when item editor is opened on product option.
See Also
Customizing Preferences

Insert a Product Structure in PPR Context

You can insert a Product structure in a PPR Context by dragging and dropping the root product node from one window to the PPR Context node in another window.

  1. Open your Product in an authoring session.
  2. Open the Manufactured Item Definition or Fastened Item Definition app. Tile your windows vertically as shown below.

    Note: The Product structure is not inserted in the PPR Context due to the option defined in Me > Preferences.
  3. Select the root product node in one window, then drop it on to the PPR Context node in the other window.

    Product structure is inserted. However, no link is created.



  4. Right-click the Manufacturing Assembly tile in the item editor and select Create item-product scope.
  5. Select a product node.

    A Item-Product scope is created from the root Manufacturing Assembly to the selected Product.



    Note: A red mask appears on the Manufacturing Assembly node in the tree to indicate that a Item-Product scope has been created. Also, the Item-Product scope icon appears on the tile.

Assign Products

You can assign products to items by drag and drop.

  1. Expand the product tree to see the product structure.
  2. Create predecessors in the item editor to create two Manufacturing Assemblies.
  3. Select a Product, then drop it on one of the Manufacturing Assemblies.

    The Product is assigned to the Manufacturing Assembly.

  4. Select another Product, then drop it on the other Manufacturing Assembly.
    The Product is assigned to the Manufacturing Assembly.