Import Product Structure
Explanation
This activity is used to handle creation of a serial structure template by
copying an engineering part structure from IFS/PDM-Configuration. When you are
going to build a new template structure which has some similarities with an
existing engineering part structure, importing an existing structure is an effective
way to get started with the new structure. A serial structure template will
be created for each level in the engineering part structure, and the different
serial structure templates will be linked together to hold the entire configuration.
To perform this activity:
- Open the Manage Template Structure page and
search for the part to be on top of the new template structure. If you want
to import only a structure branch, click on the Expand
and select the part to be on top of the new structure branch.
- Select the Import Product Structure option to open the
Import Product
Structure dialog and enter appropriate information there.
- Specify the starting structure position from where the automatic generation
of structure positions will commence.
- To make sure that new positions become equal in length to other positions
in the template structure, you can specify a length for the position. The
system will automatically fill up with zeros (0) to match this length.
- By enabling the option Split Product Structure into several Templates,
each level of the part structure which contains sub structures will
be created as a template.
- By enabling the option Expand quantities larger than 1 on lowest
level, all serial tracking parts without children in the part
structure will be split into instances with unique positions. If this option
is disabled, the quantity will be kept.
- By enabling the option Copy Functions, product functions connected
to the part structure will be copied.
Prerequisites
- An engineering part structure must exist in IFS/PDM-Configuration. The
status of the part structure does not matter, any status can be imported.
- The top part in the new structure has to be defined before an import
can take place.
System Effects
As a result of this activity, one or more new template structures will exist
in the Preliminary status.