Release Part Revision
Explanation
Use this activity to release a part revision to production. Note that releasing
a part is irreversible.
Prerequisites
- The part cannot be obsolete.
- The part, and all parts below it in the structure, must be active.
- The structure must be active.
- Characteristics must be approved.
- The manufacturer must be approved.
- The approval routing must be completed.
- All documents in the document survey must be approved.
- The document requirements must be fulfilled.
- All alternate part revisions must have Released status or higher.
System Effects
- The part can no longer be modified in any way. Any change requires the
creation of a new revision.
- The number for last approved revision is updated in the engineering
part.
- The part revision is time-stamped with the release date.
- A new line is added in the revision journal.
- The document survey is frozen and will be in the locked status. Refer
to the description on Document Object Connections for more information.
- New records cannot be added to either the approval routing or to the
document requirements.
- A characteristics snapshot is created if the engineering part has technical
characteristics.