Structures

Configuring structures with effectivity

You can use the EP_EffectivityMode preference to set the effectivity type, which the planner uses to configure structures in Process Planning for BTO/BTS/CTO and Process Planning for ETO. The default value is UNIT. You can also set it to DATE, to work with date-based effectivity.

Configuring structures with a different effectivity

You must configure the EP_WorkareaPopupTableColumnConfigurationpreference before end users can use this feature.

End users can define a structure configuration on the BOM Alignment, BOE Authoring, or Plant BOP pages.

Note

You cannot define a structure by date range on the BOM Alignment page, because Active Workspace does not support it.

Configuring structures with variants

Process Planning for BTO/BTS/CTO supports classic variants and Product Configurator variants. By default, Process Planning for BTO/BTS/CTO is set to use Product Configurator variants. To use classic variants, you set the Teamcenter PSEVariantsMode preference to legacy.

Note

To use Product Configurator variants, you must be in Teamcenter 11.5 or later.

On the station Balancing and Operation tabs, operations are displayed according to the product variants they belong to (or their variant applicability). Applicability of an operation to a product variant is based on whether an operation applies to a specific product variant.

To configure an operation out based on the variant applicability of its consumed parts, you configure it using these Teamcenter preferences:

• typeAndRuleForProcessConfiguration

• controllingOccsForProcessConfiguration

By default, only operations with the base MEOP type and part assignment of type MEConsumed are considered for configuring out. If any other operation subtypes and occurrence types should be considered, you must modify these preferences. See the Teamcenter Manufacturing Process Planner or Teamcenter Environment Variables Reference documentation for details.