This activity is used to approve a structure change where an alternate with the Qualified Interchangeability interchangeability rule is installed in a structure. Based on the defined configuration rules, approval records will be generated for such structure changes. As a result, the operational condition of the parent part in the serial structure is set to Non Operational and the generated approval records are connected to the parent part. If an approval routing is connected to the alternate definition, this approval routing will be connected automatically to the approval record.
At creation the approval record is set automatically to the Not Approved status. When you set the operational condition of the parent part to Operational, the system will perform a check to identify approval records that have not been approved. During this check, each record with the Not Approved status is validated against the connected approval routing and, provided that all steps for the relevant approval routing are completed, the corresponding approval record will be set to the Approved status. A journal entry will be created with information on the approval of the structure change.
Note: The steps must be approved in sequence. A step cannot be approved or rejected if the previous step has not been approved or has been rejected.