Converting Process Plans from Windchill MPMLink
Windchill MPMLink process plans and their related information can be pulled into Operator Advisor using the provided conversion process. This conversion results in a set of parent and child work definitions and related database objects, such as related documents, material specifications, illustrations, control characteristics, and so on. Each time a process plan is converted, a new set of work definitions and related content is created in Operator Advisor.
To convert process plans from Windchill MPMLink into Operator Advisor:
1. Configure Operator Advisor to communicate with Windchill MPMLink:
2. If your process plans include any custom
Windchill attributes, add support for those custom attributes to the conversion process. For more information, see
Supporting Windchill Custom Attributes.
3. Initiate the pull request for information from
Windchill MPMLink by executing the
ConvertFromProcessPlanID service from the
MPMLink work definition converter Thing (
PTC.SCA.SCO.MPMLinkWorkDefinitionConverter). Supply the
Windchill MPMLink process plan identifier as the
processPlanId input parameter for the service, and any additional navigation criteria to filter the process plan information that is converted. The service returns the UID of the root work definition for the converted process plan. For more information, see
Work Definition Converter Thing Shape Services and
Using Navigation Criteria in Process Plan Conversion.
The conversion service calls a sequence of other internal services to convert all Windchill MPMLink process plans, standard procedures, and operations associated with the specified process plan identifier, up to ten levels deep, into Operator Advisor work definitions with the appropriate related information. Standard process plans and standard procedures from Windchill MPMLink are treated as operations (child work definitions) in Operator Advisor.
The conversion process can take time to complete, depending on the size and complexity of the original process plan.
4. Query for the root work definition to see its execution status. Use the GetWorkDefinition service available from the default production order manager (PTC.SCA.SCO.DefaultProductionOrderManager) or the PostgresDatabase Query service. These execution statuses indicate the state of the conversion process:
◦ Building—The process plan conversion is still in process.
◦ BuildingSuccess—The process plan conversion has completed successfully.
◦ BuildingFailure—Errors were encountered in the process plan conversion.
Any errors encountered during the process plan conversion can be reviewed in the script log or script error log.
For more information on work definitions and their related objects, see
Work Definition Schema.
For more information on the conversion services, see
Work Definition Converter Thing Shape Services.
The following table lists the mappings between Operator Advisor objects and Windchill MPMLink objects. Each of the Operator Advisor work definition objects in the table links to the data model property description for that object, which includes the mapping of Operator Advisor properties to Windchill attributes.
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Operator Advisor Work Definition Objects
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Windchill MPMLink Objects
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Process Plan, Operation, Standard Procedure, and Standard Operation
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Related Document for Operation (Reference and Described By Document)
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2D (Annotation, Figure, Reference/describe by document with flag: showing in work instructions), 3D created by Creo View or Creo Illustrate
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Standard Control Characteristic
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Skill allocation
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Skill
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Resource allocation (Work Center, Tooling, Process Material, and so on)
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Work Center, Tooling, Process Material, and so on
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Part allocation (Allocated, Operated-on)
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Occurrence level information for part allocations
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Parts
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