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Tooling, Process Materials and Skills
When you associate various attributes to the tooling, process materials and skills in a process plan in Windchill MPMLink, Windchill ESI passes the attributes to the EAI software components. The following attributes are passed:
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Skills are sent with the ESI response, but these are not processed by the EAI software components.
• Number
• Name
• Documents
• Last Changed By
• Date Effectivity
• Serial Number Effectivity
• Lot Number Effectivity
• Category
• Default Unit
• Usage
• Part Type
• Source
• View
• Lifecycle State
• Iteration
• Version
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Windchill ESI can also publish standalone tooling, process materials and skills that are not associated with a process plan.
Once the tooling, process materials and skills data has been published by Windchill ESI Services, the EAI software components map the Windchill tooling, and process materials attributes to SAP material table attributes. Skill attributes are ignored. The following table shows the mapping of Windchill tooling and process materials to SAP material master attributes.
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Process materials and tooling of the type Tool are mapped to materials in SAP. Similar to parts, process materials may have an extra view (PRT) in SAP. Tooling of the type Fixture is mapped to Equipment in SAP.
Windchill Tooling, Process Material Attribute
SAP Material Table/Attribute
Number
Material Number
Name
Material Description
Default Unit
Base Unit of Measure
Type
Material Type
Source
Procurement Type
Version
Revision Level
Date Effectivity
Valid-From Date
Serial Effectivity
Material’s serial effectivity inside the ECN.  The ECN becomes parametric effectivity (serial effectivity) controlled.
The following table shows the mapping of Windchill tooling of the type Fixture to SAP material master attributes.
Tooling of the Type Fixture
SAP Equipment Table/Attributes
Number
Number
Name
Description