Engineering data management summaryYou can use the Engineering Data Management module in Manufacturing to support the registration of a product's design process, dealing with different versions of products. In addition, this module is used to transfer the design data to production. An overview of the functionality of the Engineering Data Management module is provided here. For further details, refer to the more detailed topics listed at the end of this topic, or the online Help for the appropriate session. Engineering items Engineering items are items to which you make design changes. If the design process is finished, you can transfer the changes to actual items. An E-item can exist as several revisions. Each revision is an improved version of the item. You can attach drawings to E-item revisions with the Document Management module of Data Management. Engineering bills of material An engineering bill of material (EBOM) describes the relationships of components to their parent items the same way as a production bill of material (PBOM). The main difference between an EBOM and a PBOM is that EBOMs use different revisions of E-items, rather than having a sequence number to account for items that are valid on different dates. Record the components of E-items in an EBOM with the Engineering BOM (tiedm1110m000) session. You can use unit effectivity to model various product configurations of the E-item. For more information on unit effectivity, refer to Unit effectivity in EDM. You can use reference designators in the EBOM to indicate where a component must be mounted on the main item. For more information, refer to Procedure for linking reference designators in the EBOM. Changing the EBOM
Unit effectivity in EDM Unit effectivity can be used to model variations in the design of E-items. You can transfer the unit-effective data to the production environment so the variations are modelled in the production environment.
| |||