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.