Associating Parts to Specifications
Specifications are used to communicate product information to suppliers. Adding part information to a PTC FlexPLM specification gives product designers and developers greater control over product specifications through the use of detailed part associations. When building a product specification in PTC FlexPLM, you can associate the parts that have already been associated to the product, and export the part details when you export the product specification.
Before a part can be associated to a specification, it must be associated to a product. To associate a part to a specification:
1. When viewing the product, select the Specifications detail page.
2. Choose Parts from the Specifications details page.
3. The Associated Parts table lists the part name, part number, and part version of parts already associated to the specification. This table is empty if no parts have been associated. Select Add Existing Parts from the Actions menu of the specification to add new parts to the product specification.
4. The Add Existing Parts window appears displaying a list of parts already associated to the product.
5. Select the parts you want to associate to the product specification, and click OK.
6. If you select a single part to associate to the specification, the system displays the Update Specification to Part page. If you selected multiple parts to associate, the system refreshes the Specifications detail page with a list of the associated parts in the Parts table, and iterates the specification.