Using Windchill Workgroup Manager to Read Product Manufacturing Information (PMI)
The Windchill Workgroup Manager uses the infrastructure provided by Windchill MPMLink. Creating a plan for downstream stakeholders consists of the following steps:
• Step 1- Check In 3D model in Windchill Workspace:Create a 3D model in CATIA V5 and initiate custom Check In into the Windchill Workspace. A custom Check In is initiated to auto associate the CAD model with WTPart.
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Designating Creo Annotation Elements as Control Characteristics Before Check In
The Windchill MPMLink can access the annotation elements in a Creo model only when they are designated as a control characteristic. For more information, refer to Designating Annotation Elements as Control Characteristics in Creo Help Centers: https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/help/help.jsp
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• Step 2- Define Control Characteristics: Open the 3D model in Manufacturing Associative Part Structure browser and define Control Characteristics through the Control Characteristics and/or Visualization tab. In a process, part, assembly, or system, control characteristics are any functional features, geometrical or material properties, that can be qualified, measured, or quantified and for which variation or deviation control is necessary.
• Step 3- Transform eBoM to mBoM: Transforming an engineering bill of materials (eBOM) into a manufacturing bill of materials (mBOM) is a key component of the manufacturing process. Typically, the as-designed, or engineering view of how a product is to be produced, differs from the as-planned, or manufacturing view of how the product is intended to be built.
• Step 4- Reconcile Upstream and Downstream Parts: Use the Equivalence Comparison Report, launched from the Manufacturing Product Structure Explorer window, is used to reconcile differences between upstream parts and downstream parts.
• Step 5- Process Plan: Process plans are the detailed description of what needs to be done on the shop floor to produce, inspect, repair, or maintain a given part or assembly. They contain the operations to be performed, the order in which they must be done, the physical resources, plants and skills required, document references, text description, and time and cost requirements.
• Step 6- Create Work Instruction: Work instructions can be used on a manufacturing shop floor as a step by step guide on how to produce, inspect, repair or maintain parts. Because they are dynamically generated any change made to a process plan, operation or sequence is immediately accessible to a shop floor worker, ensuring that the most up-to-date manufacturing information is always available.
