Working with Standard Operations
Certain operations are frequently performed in manufacturing industries. A library of such frequently performed operations is created to benefit the manufacturing engineer. Any operation from a library of frequently used operations in industries is called a standard operation. A standard operation helps to capture the manufacturing process knowledge in a centralized manner for better re-usability. With a standard operation in place, a manufacturing engineer is not required to create an operation every time and define its attributes, associativity, and so on.
A standard operation is a standalone type of Windchill object in MPMLink. Unlike operations, a standard operation is not iterated or controlled using versioning schemes. Only a manufacturing engineer can create and manage standard operations in MPMLink.
When using standard operations in process plans, be aware of the following:
• You cannot add an operation under a standard operation. However, a standard operation can be added under an operation.
• A standard operation can be nested under a standard operation.
• A process plan makes use of all the attributes and associations related with a standard operation.
• A standard operation can be re-used multiple times in the same process plans or across different process plans.
• It is possible to implement rules between manufacturing processes, resources and parts through compatibility rules.
• You can load standard operations using a load file.
• You can view the details of a part allocated to a standard operation in the Related tab of its immediate parent entity. The immediate parent entity can be an operation, a part or a process plan.
You can collect or group standard operations to create a standard group. Standard groups enable you to organize standard operations such that it can be quickly accessed and reused as required.