Overview of Manufacturing Structure Generation
In typical manufacturing workflows, new products are rarely built from scratch. Instead, you duplicate the existing product structures using the
Save As action and then make the necessary modifications. After completing modifications to the duplicated structure, you can use the
Initialize Manufacturing Structures action to generate the manufacturing structures. This action uses the existing process plan or routing plan to automatically generate the manufacturing mBOM, process plan, and routing plan.
If you already have a routing plan, you can choose it as the source for structure generation. If not, you can proceed by selecting the process plan.
Action Availability
Only those users who are members of the PTCBOMTransformationLicense or PTCMPMLinkModuleLicense profile can access the Initialize Manufacturing Structures action.
The action is available when selecting a part at the following locations:
• Right-click actions menu on the upstream structure in BOM Transformer.
• Actions menu on the part information page.
• Actions menu and under New in the right-click actions menu on the folder browser page.
• Actions menu and under New in the right-click actions menu on the search results page.