Locate processes, operations, and product reviews affected by change notices

When an engineering change notice (ECN) is issued, you must perform an impact analysis to determine which processes and operations must incorporate changes from the manufacturing (MBOM) into the classic, plant, or product bill of process (BOP). You can use this procedure to determine which planning nodes are impacted by the changes to consumed parts in the BOP.

Procedure

1. Open an ECN that is actively associated with your structure.

2. In the change notice Overview, in the Change Summary panel, review engineering part status changes, that is, parts added, modified, removed, or replaced.

3. If you have not done so already, search for and open the work package associated with the change notice, and navigate to the BOM Alignment, Process Planning, or Product BOP Authoring task page.

4. Select Show Comparison or Assignment Indication .

Consumption and change indications are displayed in the page's Process panel and show more detail in the Change Summary panel.

5. Choose one of the following options to research the impacted changes:

Hover over an indication icon to reveal a dialog box that describes how the object is impacted by the change.

Select an object in the Process tab or panel to display detailed information about the object in an information panel. For example, if you select an operation in the Process or Product BOP tree, details about the impacted changes are visible in the Parts tab.

6. Click Calculate Impact on Product Views.

Product views affected by changes to hard callouts, referenced parts, and background parts are displayed.

7. In the Change Summary panel, review all changes to the EBOM and click Propagate.

The changes are propagated and impact indications are no longer visible.

8. (Optional) Update the structure based on the impacted changes to consumed parts.

You should be able to navigate to task-related pages such as High Level Planning and Line Balancing with the change notice still active. All actions you perform on these pages, such as creating, revising, deleting, or cloning object properties, are tracked.