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Manufacturing Standard Groups
Manufacturing standard groups are sets of manufacturing capabilities and standard procedures, organized into a hierarchical structure.
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A manufacturing standard group may contain other manufacturing standard groups in its hierarchy structure.
The manufacturing standard group information page is a collection point for information related to the manufacturing standard group. The information page of a manufacturing standard group is accessed by clicking the information icon .
From the information page, you can perform actions on a manufacturing standard group, as well as view the object attributes and any related information.
For an overview of information page functionality, see About Information Pages and Customizing Information Page Tabs .
Actions
Information pages contain a list of applicable actions in a menu in the upper left corner of the page. The availability of these actions depends on the status of the manufacturing standard group, as well as your access to it. For more information about status indicators, see Object Status .
The following actions may be of particular interest for this object.
Action
Description
Manufacturing Standards Explorer
Opens the Manufacturing Standards Explorer allowing you to create and manage standard business objects.
For more information, see Manufacturing Resources.
Display Related Manufacturing Objects
Opens the Display Related Manufacturing Objects report, providing access to the Object List table. The Object List table allows you to view, collect, and associate additional related objects to the given object.
Tabs
The following tabs are viewable on the manufacturing standard group information page. You can customize the tabs that appear on each object information page to display the information most useful to you. For more information, see Customizing Information Page Tabs.
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Administrators may have modified the tabs that are viewable to you.
Tab
Description
Details
The Details tab displays the attributes of an object.
See Object Attributes for a list of common attributes available in Windchill.
The following attributes may be of particular interest for this object.
• Manufacturing Standard Group
• Process
• System
Structure
The Structure tab allows you to view a logical representation for an object. From this tab you can view the Structure table.
See Object Attributes for a list of common attributes available in Windchill.
Related
The Related tab allows you to view, add, change, or remove parts, described by and referenced documents. From this tab you can view the following related tables:
• Parts
• Describe Linked
• References Documents
See Object Attributes for a list of common attributes available in Windchill.
History
The History tab allows you to view the entire process of the object through its workflow states. From this tab you can view the following tables:
• Timeline
Displays a graphical timeline of the part through the workflow states.
See Object Attributes for a list of common attributes available in Windchill.
Changes
The Changes tab displays information about change objects and tasks. From this tab you can view the following related tables:
• Issues and Variances
• Change Requests
• Affected by Change Notices
• Resulting from Change Notices
See Object Attributes for a list of common attributes available in Windchill.
Collaboration
The Collaboration tab displays information on the object or objects it is associated with. It also provides an overview of project members’ interactions with the object. From this tab you can view the following related tables:
• Discussions
• Subscriptions
See Object Attributes for a list of common attributes available in Windchill. T
Managing Manufacturing Standard Group in HTML
You can create a manufacturing standard group from a folder. In a manufacturing standard group browser, you can:
• Insert a new standard operation, capability and standard procedure in a manufacturing standard group.
• Insert an existing standard procedure and capability.
• Rename a manufacturing standard group.
• Check in and check out a manufacturing standard group and the operations under a manufacturing standard group.
• Copy and paste a standard operation.
• Add a reference document.