Updates to Windchill MPMLink Associative Browsers
Product: Windchill, Windchill PDMLink, Windchill MPMLink
Release: 11.0 M010
Benefit
With Windchill MPMLink, manufacturing engineers can use the Process Plan Browser or the Manufacturing Associative Part Structure Browser to manage their process plans and allocate factory resources. A number of critical enhancements have been made to these browsers.
Additional Details
In order to efficiently define and manage their work, manufacturing engineers using Windchill MPMLink are now able to:
• Manage options and variants of manufactured products
◦ Propagate options and variants between BOMs in the Manufacturing Associative Part Structure Browser
◦ Define options and variants for process plan structures in the Process Plan
◦ Inherit options and variants from related assemblies in the Process Plan Browser
• Reference objects that are not consumed by the operation itself in the Process Plan Browser; these are known as “operated on” objects and they are referenced from the related assemblies or from non-related assemblies (standalone parts)
• Define a specific camera angle and viewpoint during the playback of operations in the Process Plan Browser
• Playback the details of each allocation within an operation in the Process Plan Browser
• Define and manage alternate units of measure in all MPMLink browsers
• Display only the latest iteration of each branch in the equivalent tab of the Manufacturing Associative Part Structure Browser
• Provide a custom logic for part names, part numbers, and saved folder location when creating a manufacturing BOM
• Create a manufacturing BOM for tooling or other resources that are designed in-house
• Visualize the progress of the manufacturing BOM creation via a sequenced rendering of components in the visualization tabs of the Manufacturing Associative Part Structure Browser