Process Plan Information Page
The process plan information page is a collection point for information related to the process plan. The information page of a process plan is accessed by clicking the information icon .
From the information page, you can perform actions on a process plan, as well as view the object attributes and any related information.
For an overview of information page functionality, see About Information Pages and Customizing Information Page Tabs .
Actions
Information pages contain a list of applicable actions in a menu in the upper left corner of the page. See Common Actions for a list of common actions available in Windchill. The availability of these actions depends on the status of the process plan, as well as your access to it. For more information about status indicators, see Object Status .
The following actions are of particular interest for this object.
Action
Description
Open in Related Plant
Opens the Process Plan in the Manufacturing Resource Browser of the plant that has been associated with the process plan.
Open in > Open in Process Plan Workbench
Launches the Structure tab in a separate browser window dedicated to editing process plans and operations.
Display Related Manufacturing Objects
Opens the Related Manufacturing Objects Report, providing access to the Object List table. The Object List table allows you to view, collect, and associate additional related objects to the given object
Work Instructions
Displays the work instructions for the process plan, allowing you to view the details of a process plan as well as related information.
For more information, see Viewing a Work Instruction
Tabs
The following tabs are viewable on the process plan information page. You can customize the tabs that appear on each object information page to display the information most useful to you. For more information, see Customizing Information Page Tabs.
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Administrators have the ability to modify the tabs that are viewable to you.
Tab
Description
Details
The Details tab displays the attributes of an object.
See Object Attributes for a list of common attributes available in Windchill. Also, see About Visualization.
The following attributes are of particular interest for this object.
Attributes
System
Structure
The Structure tab allows you to view a logical representation for an object. When viewing a process plan this tab is also known as the Process Plan Browser.
The Structure tab also allows you to perform many different manufacturing process management functions, depending on the manufacturing object that has been selected. For example, plant and process plan management, BOM associativity management, and resource balancing.
For more information see Using the Process Plan Structure Tab.
Related
The Related tab allows you to view, add, change, or remove parts, plants, described by and referenced documents. From this tab you can view the following related tables:
Parts
Plants
Described By
References Documents
See Object Attributes for a list of common attributes available in Windchill.
History
The History tab allows you to view the entire process of the object through its workflow states. From this tab you can view the following tables:
Timeline
Displays a graphical timeline of the part through the workflow states.
Save-As History
See Object Attributes for a list of common attributes available in Windchill.
Changes
The Changes tab displays information about change objects and tasks. From this tab you can view the Associated Changes table.
See Object Attributes of for a list of common attributes available in Windchill.
Control Characteristics
The Control Characteristics tab displays control characteristics that have been associated with the object.
For more information see Control Characteristics.
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The Control Characteristics must be enabled before it appears. To enable the Control Characteristics see Customizing Information Page Tabs.
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