Analyzing product configurations

If you work with product configurations (variants) during line balancing, you can filter data by product variant to identify production bottlenecks. You can use this information to determine which variants use the minimum and maximum amounts of time, and reassign resources and operations as needed.

Production Process Planning supports both classic variants and Product Configurator variants; however, you cannot use a mixture of classic and Product Configurator variants in the same structure.

Note

Your Teamcenter administrator must configure and enable Product Configurator in your environment before you can filter and view data that uses the Product Configurator variant functionality.

If you use Product Configurator variants, verify that your environment meets prerequisites.

You perform the following tasks to analyze product configurations:

• Analyze existing variant formulas on operations.

• Define the variant formula.

• Filter by product variant.

• Review variant time distribution to balance the line.