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:
Windchill Process plan to Oracle Applications Routing Attribute Mapping
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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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