MPMLink: Support for Replacing Multiple Raw Materials and Resolving Consumption Discrepancies
User Interface Location:
• Mass Update Manufacturing Objects action in the Actions menu and right-click actions menu of Folder Contents table, Search Results table, and object information page
• Resolve Consumption Discrepancies action in the Editing menu of BOM Transformer
Product: Windchill, Windchill PDMLink
Release: 12.0.1.0
Benefit
The Mass Update Manufacturing Objects action is enhanced to provide the ability to replace multiple raw-material and semi-finished parts.
Unresolved consumption links in a manufacturing BOM can be resolved at the same time using the Resolve Consumption Discrepancies action.
Additional Details
• The name of the Mass Update action is changed to Mass Update Manufacturing Objects. The action lets you replace a Windchill object with another Windchill object of the same type and update attribute values of multiple objects simultaneously.
◦ Update objects associated with parts and operations, such as part usages, described by documents, raw-material parts, semi-finished parts, and others.
◦ Update attribute values of multiple objects.
• Fix all the unresolved consumption links between the upstream and downstream views at the same time using the Resolve Consumption Discrepancies action.
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