Advanced Product Creation
The advanced product creation capabilities of PTC FlexPLM allow you to create products from existing products through copying and linking. It also allows you to link related products to one another through the linked products functionality.
Advanced product creation in PTC FlexPLM includes both copy and linked product capabilities.
Copy Product
Copying products is used when you do not want to establish a relationship between the original and copied product. Changes made to either the original or copied product affect only the product in which they are made; changes made in the original product are not reflected in the copied product, and vice versa.
Linked Product
Linking products is used when you want attributes and product options to be linked between products. Unlike copying products, linked products might share one version of a product option, or might maintain synchronized attribute values. As a result, changes in either the parent or child product is reflected in all products that link to that product.
• Ability to copy and link product information
• Ability to copy and link individual and multiple products
• Ability to copy and link products across seasons, brands, and product types
• Ability to define custom relationship types
• Ability to synchronize attribute values between the original and copied products
• Visibility to copied to/from and parent/child relationships
• Manual synchronization of BOMs