PTC Manufacturing Process Management Domain
The PTC Manufacturing Process Management (MfgProcMgmt) domain provides access to the manufacturing process management capabilities (MPM) of Windchill. Manufacturing Process Management is the process of defining and managing the manufacturing processes, which are used to make parts, assemble final products, and perform inspections. The domain provides OData entities that represent business objects such as process plan, operation, sequence, bill of process (BOP), resource, and control characteristic (CC). The domain is available only if you install Windchill MPMLink.
The PTC Manufacturing Process Management domain references the PTC Document Management domain to provide navigation to allocated parts and operated on parts.
The following table lists the significant OData entities available in the PTC Manufacturing Process Management domain. To see all the OData entities available in the PTC Manufacturing Process Management domain, refer to the EDM of the domain. The domain EDM is available at the metadata URL.
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Items
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OData Entities
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Description
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Process Plan
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ProcessPlan
StandardProcedure
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The ProcessPlan entity represents the version of a process plan. In Windchill, the MPMProcessPlan and MPMProcessPlanMaster classes are used to work with process plan versions.
The StandardProcedure entity is derived from the ProcessPlan entity. StandardProcedure represents an instance of MPMProcessPlan class, where standard attribute is set to true.
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Operation
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Operation
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The Operation entity represents the version of an operation. In Windchill, the MPMOperation and MPMOperationMaster classes are used to work with operation versions.
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Sequence
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Sequence
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The Sequence entity represents the version of a sequence. In Windchill, the MPMSequence and MPMSequenceMaster classes are used to work with sequence versions.
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Resource
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WorkCenter
Skill
Tooling
ProcessingMaterial
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The WorkCenter, Skill, Tooling, and ProcessingMaterial entities represent the MPM resources. In Windchill, resources represent objects such as, personnel, material, equipment and so on, that perform the production activities. Manufacturing resources are the resources needed on the shop floor during the production, maintenance, inspection, or repair of parts.
The MPMResource class is used to work with resources.
The MPMConsumableResource class is used to work with consumed resources.
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Control Characteristic
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StandardCC
OperationToStandardCCLink
StandardCCToResourceLink
StandardCCUsageToResourceLink
StandardCCToProcessPlanLink
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The StandardCC entity represents a control characteristic version. In Windchill, the MPMStandardCC class is used to work with control characteristics.
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Material
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Material
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In MPM domain, the Material entity represents WTPart.
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subtypeable and softattributable Attributes
The PTC Manufacturing Process Management domain supports the subtypeable and softattributable attributes of Windchill. All the PTC Manufacturing Process Management domain entities that are backed by a persistable which implements the Typed interface, support these attributes.
Navigation Properties Available for Bill of Process (BOP)
You can retrieve the results for BOP and expand and retrieve its navigation properties using $expand=Components(levels=max).
BOP allows multilevel expands. For example, $expand=Components(levels=max) expands the whole structure while $expand=Components(levels=2) expands the structure up to two levels of children. Default is levels=1.
The following are the important navigation properties available for BOP:
• OperationHolder—Returns the Operation Holders in the Process Plan structure. An Operation Holder represents a Process Plan, Sequence, Operation, or Standard Procedure.
• OperationHolderUsageLink—Returns the usage links for Operation Holders.
• Components—Returns the child Components for the Process Plan, Sequence and Operation.
• RelatedParts—Returns Related Parts and MPMPartToProcessPlanLink for the Operation along with their custom attributes, that is, any type of IBA including local/global attributes, object reference attributes.
• ConsumedOperatedOnParts—Returns the Operated On Parts associated with an Operation using MPMOperationToOperatedPartLink along with their attributes.
The ConsumedOperatedOnParts entity collection contains the following navigation properties that can be retrieved using $expand:
◦ Part—Returns the Operated On Part object and its custom attributes.
◦ OperationToOperatedPartLink—Returns the link for the Operated On Part in the Operation structure and its custom attributes.
• ConsumedParts—Returns the Parts associated with an Operation using MPMOperationToPartLink along with their attributes.
The ConsumedParts entity collection contains the following navigation properties that can be retrieved using $expand:
◦ Part—Returns the Part object and its custom attributes.
◦ OperationToPartLink—Returns the link for the Part in the Operation structure and its custom attributes.
◦ PartPathOccurrenceLinks—Returns the occurrence links for the Part in the Operation structure and their custom attributes.
• ConsumedProcessMaterials—Returns the Process Materials associated with an Operation using OperationToConsumableLink along with their attributes.
The ConsumedProcessMaterials entity collection contains the following navigation properties that can be retrieved using $expand:
◦ OperationToConsumableLink—Returns the link for the Process Material in the Operation structure and its custom attributes.
◦ ProcessMaterial—Returns the Process Material object and its custom attributes.
• ConsumedSkills—Returns the Skills associated with an Operation using OperationToConsumableLink along with their attributes.
The ConsumedSkills entity collection contains the following navigation properties that can be retrieved using $expand:
◦ OperationToConsumableLink—Returns the link for the Skill in the Operation structure and its custom attributes.
◦ Skill—Returns the Skill object and its custom attributes.
• ConsumedStandardCCs—Returns the Standard CCs associated with an Operation using OperationToStandardCCLink along with their attributes.
The ConsumedStandardCCs entity collection contains the following navigation properties that can be retrieved using $expand:
◦ OperationToStandardCCLink—Returns the link for the Control Characteristic in the Operation structure and its custom attributes.
◦ StandardCC—Returns the CC object and its custom attributes.
• ConsumedToolings—Returns the Toolings associated with an Operation using OperationToConsumableLink and their attributes.
The ConsumedToolings entity collection contains the following navigation properties that can be retrieved using $expand:
◦ OperationToConsumableLink—Returns the link for the Tooling in the Operation structure and its custom attributes.
◦ Tooling—Returns the Tooling object and its custom attributes.
• ConsumedWorkCenters—Returns the Work Centers associated with an Operation using OperationToWorkCenterLink along with their attributes.
The ConsumedWorkCenters entity collection contains the following navigation properties that can be retrieved using $expand:
◦ OperationToWorkCenterLink—Returns the link for the Work Center in the Operation structure and its custom attributes.
◦ WorkCenter—Returns the Work Center object and its custom attributes.
• DescribedByDocuments—Returns the Described By Documents objects along with their custom attributes.
The DescribedByDocuments entity collection contains the DescribedBy navigation property that can be retrieved using $expand.
• ReferenceDocuments—Returns the Reference Documents objects along with their custom attributes.
The ReferenceDocuments entity collection contains the References navigation property that can be retrieved using $expand.
• DownloadUrls—Returns the download URLs.
• Representations—Returns the URL for the dynamic structure representation.
Refer to the domain EDM for a complete list of navigation properties.