The Active System and Operations

The active system defines the work within each session of the Work Instructions app. In Process Planning, you explicitly create and select this system; in Assembly Experience, you use this system implicitly, and the system you use in Assembly Experience is the active system.

This page discusses:

See Also
Opening Work Instructions to Another Operation
Select System or General Operation Dialog Box
Work Instructions Layout

Active System

When you first enter Work Instructions, you select the system with which Work Instructions works. The operations within the system are the operations to which you assign the work instruction objects. When you select either work instructions or a single system operation instead of a parent system, the software searches up the tree to find a valid active system.

If the system you select is one of multiple systems creating a particular product, you can see that product buildup from the previous systems. See Geometry Window and Product Build Up.

If you want to switch from one active system to another, see Selecting Another System.

Operations

The following kinds of operations can have work instructions as children:

  • Point Fastening Operation
  • Curve Fastening Operation
  • Loading Operation (called Mount in an Assembly Experience context)
  • Unloading Operation
  • Remove Material Operation
  • General Operation - if it has no children or if its only children are work instructions.

Once a General Operation has a work instruction as a child, it cannot have other kinds of operations as children. Other kinds of child operations can have work instructions as children.

See also Time Management of Work Instructions.