Process Plans
Windchill ESI allows you to publish Process Plans created within Windchill MPMLink to a distribution target such as Oracle Applications. Publishing process plans from Windchill ESI also includes the publishing of all related parts and BOM objects that are listed. Related processing resources and related operated on parts are also published.
When you associate various attributes to a process plan in Windchill MPMLink, Windchill ESI passes the attributes to the EAI software components. The following attributes are passed:
• Number
• Name
• Category
• Base Unit of Measure
• Distribution Targets
• Operations
• Work Instructions
• Sequences
• Resources
• Lot size
• Last Changed By
• Group Counter
• View
• Lifecycle State
• Date Effectivity
• Serial Number Effectivity
• Lot Number Effectivity
• Iteration
• Version
• Previously Published Version
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When publishing a Process Plan with an operation, there must be a work center, with a department, assigned to the operation. The work center should also have time values attributed to it, to allow for the creation of activities. If there are no time values attributed to the work center then no activities are created. To schedule resources the Unit of Measure (UOM) for the resource should be set to Hour (HR). In addition, the resource group to which the processing resources and work centers belong should also be used.
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Once the process data has been published by Windchill ESI Services, the EAI software components map the process plan attributes to Oracle Applications routing attributes. The following table shows the mapping of process plan attributes to Oracle Applications manufacturing attributes:
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Process Plan Attribute
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Oracle Applications Routing Attribute
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Revision
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Revision of the Routing
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Distribution Target
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Organization
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Parts
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Item number
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Operations
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Operations
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Resources
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Resources
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Operations
When you associate various attributes to the operations in a process plan in Windchill MPMLink, Windchill ESI passes the attributes to the EAI software components. The following attributes are passed:
• Operation Label
• Description
• Operation Holder Number (Parent Process Plan number or Sequence number or Operation number)
• Set up Time
• Processing Time
• Labor Time
• Waiting Time
• Queue Time
• Quantity
• Last Changed By
• Name
• Number
• Date Effectivity
• Operation Holder Type
• Description
• Base Unit of Measure
• Move Time
• Setup Cost
• Queue Cost
• Labor Cost
• Processing Cost
• Waiting Cost
• Teardown Cost
• Move Cost
• View
• Iteration
• Version
• ERP Validation Code
Once the operation data has been published by Windchill ESI Services, the EAI software components map the Windchill operation attributes to Oracle Manufacturing table attributes. The following table shows the mapping of Windchill operation attributes to Oracle Manufacturing attributes:
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Windchill Operation Attribute
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Oracle Manufacturing Operation Attribute
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Description
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Description
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Operation Label
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Operation Sequence
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ERP validation Code
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Not mapped
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Scheduled
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If equal to Yes, this means the Work Center Scheduled allocation in Oracle is set to Yes. If set to No, then the Work Center scheduled allocation is set to No.
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Department
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Department
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Work Center
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Resources for all non-zero times defined in the operation.
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Processing Resources
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See section Consumable Resource Allocations for Operations
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Allocated Parts
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See section Operation Allocated Parts.
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Operation Allocated Parts
When you associate various attributes to the operation allocated parts in a process plan in Windchill MPMLink, Windchill ESI passes the operation allocated parts attributes to the EAI software components. The following attributes are passed:
• Part Number (this is the number of the component part in the assembly that is associated to the process plan)
• Operation Number in Operation Allocated Part Link
• Operation Label in Operation
• Assembly Part Number
• BOM Usage
• BOM Alternate
• Quantity
• Quantity Unit
Once the operation allocated parts data has been published by Windchill ESI Services, the EAI software components map the Windchill operation allocated parts attributes to Oracle Manufacturing table attributes. The following table shows the mapping of Windchill operation allocated parts attributes to Oracle Manufacturing attributes:
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Windchill Operation Allocated Part Attributes
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Oracle Manufacturing Attribute
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Assembly Part Number
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Bills Of Material that needs to be created/changed for assigning the operation sequence number to its component.
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Component Part Number
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Component Number to which the operation sequence is applied.
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Operation label of associated Operation number
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Allocated Component’s Operation Sequence Number
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Part is allocated as a resource to an Operation
Windchill ESI allows you to publish a Process Plan even if a part is allocated as a resource to an Operation. When a part is allocated as a resource to an Operation, the isAllocatedAsResource attribute for the part and its BOM header is set to True in the ESI response.
By default, such part and its BOM information is not published to the Oracle ERP system. Although, you can build customization in Tibco business logic to consume such part as a resource and its BOM as resource structure.
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If a part (allocated as a resource to an Operation) is consumed as a child part in any BOM, the user cannot publish its BOM information through ESI response.
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Consumable Resource Allocations for Operations
When you associate various attributes to the consumable resource allocations for operations in a process plan in Windchill MPMLink, Windchill ESI passes the attributes to the EAI software components. The following attributes are passed:
• Allocation Number
• Number
• Quantity
• Quantity Unit
• Resource Category
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Processing resources must exist in the Oracle Applications system.
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Once the consumable resource allocations for operations data has been published by Windchill ESI Services, the EAI software components map the Windchill consumable resource allocations for operations attributes to Oracle Manufacturing table attributes. The following table shows the mapping of Windchill consumable resource allocations for operations attributes to Oracle Manufacturing attributes:
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Windchill Consumable Resource
Allocations Attribute
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Oracle Manufacturing Attribute
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Number
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Resource code
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Usage rate
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Usage rate
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Scheduled flag
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Scheduled (Yes or No)
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Control Characteristics
Control characteristics created within Windchill MPMLink and associated to a part (or to a manufacturing object such as a process plan or an operation) may be published to a distribution target. A certain attribute on the distribution target determines whether or not control characteristics associated to a part (or to a process plan) would be published. For example, with the attribute Publish Control Characteristics when Publishing a Part set to Yes, control characteristics associated to a part would be rendered and sent with the ESI response. Likewise, control characteristics associated to a process plan (or to an operation) would be published when the attribute Publish Control Characteristics when Publishing a Process Plan has a value of Yes. Both these attributes have a value of No by default.
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A control characteristic that is associated to an operation will be published upon publishing the holding process plan, provided the distribution target attribute Publish Control Characteristics when Publishing a Process Plan has a value of Yes; this happens even if the control characteristic is associated to a part as well and the attribute Publish Control Characteristics when Publishing a Part has a value of No.
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The following attributes are passed:
• Number
• Name
• Last Changed By
• Description
• Severity
• Version
• Model Item Reference
• Distribution Targets
The attribute Model Item Reference holds a reference to the model item that is associated to the control characteristic being published.
Several other attributes may get passed as well, depending on the type of the model item. For more information see the Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration Implementation - SAP or the Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration Implementation - Oracle Applications.
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If a model item’s EPM document is not associated to the owner of the holding control characteristic, an attempt to publish the control characteristic results in a failure.
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Windchill ESI publishes a control characteristic to the same distribution targets as those associated to the holding part or process plan.
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Windchill ESI passes the following information pertaining to associations from Windchill PDMLink to the EAI software components when publishing control characteristics associated to a part, to a process plan or to an operation respectively:
• MPMPartQualityLink
• MPMProcessQualityLink
• MPMOperationQualityLink
Each of the above carries information on the objects that are related. For example, the PartQualityLink element in the ESI response holds the name and number of the part and the associated control characteristic. The OperationQualityLink element carries some additional information, in that it carries the following attributes as well;
• Allocation Type
• Sampling Amount
• Sampling Unit
• Frequency
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Although control characteristics and their associations are sent with the ESI response, these are ignored by the EAI software components.
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