Manage Alternate BOMs with Common Enterprise Data

View-Specific Enterprise Data without creating the corresponding View-Specific Part. Common enterprise data consists of attributes and related objects that are shared across all revisions and iterations of a particular master. View-specific enterprise data consists of attributes and related objects that are shared across all revisions and iterations of a particular view.

View the associated process plans for all alternate BOMs in the Manufacturing Associative Product Structure Browser, through Enterprise Data objects. In the Manufacturing Associative Product Structure Browser, a new process plan tab has been implemented for both upstream and downstream BOMs. This tab allows you to view the associated process plans of each part in the structure.

You can view the history of how this enterprise data has evolved over time. Enterprise data includes attributes that capture textual or numeric values, as well as related objects. You can also manage enterprise data that is common for all revisions and iterations of a particular view of a part. As with enterprise data that is common at the master level, you can view the history of how the view-level enterprise data has evolved over time. With enterprise data, you can define planning information at a global level so that this information can be consumed at any facility. Some customers spend between 6 to 9 months moving the production of a particular product from one plant to another partly because of the absence of a global layer that is separate from the ERP or MES systems that are tied to specific plants. Windchill can alleviate this problem by managing this common enterprise data.