About Products

The Design Standard Product process enables you to design products and models in a general way before actually choosing the details of which parts to use; in addition, it enables you to redesign parts and/or complete products. It provides an overview of all products and models, as well as quick access to product structures.

Product design is divided into levels. The top level is the Products and Models page in which you broadly define a product. The next level is the create product model information, which is either a more detailed description of the product or a model of it. The lowest level is product functions which describes certain functions or subsystems of the product model. Note that engineering part structures can be viewed directly; it is not necessary to have a product defined in order to access a product structure.

First, you define a product in the product catalog. You do this mainly to have a framework for the details of the product which consists of one or more product models. The next step is to define one or more of the models. Product models are the basis for construction of complete products. After a product model is defined, its functions are defined. Functions are the real building blocks of a product and can consist of other functions or engineering parts.

After creating a product, you can create models for the same product. A product can be deleted if it has no models connected. Models can be removed, with the function intact, as long as no functions have engineering parts connected.