Managing the enterprise BOP > Allocating processes or operations to a plant BOP

Allocating processes or operations to a plant BOP overview

Before you can allocate from a product BOP to a plant BOP, you must link a product BOP to a plant BOP.

When you allocate processes and operations, Teamcenter creates clones of the objects and adds them to the plant BOP. You can allocate both processes and operations. If you allocate processes, you allocate:

All the child operations belonging to the process.
All parts consumed in the product BOP. These are also consumed in the plant BOP.
The flows between operations.
The deeper hierarchy levels (processes below allocated processes).
In-context data (in the context of the allocated process or operation or lower contexts) that is configured in the product BOP.

If incremental change is active, all changes to the plant BOP are included in the incremental change.

Teamcenter maintains an origin link between allocated processes or operations. If there is a change to the process or operation in the product BOP, you can find these by performing an accountability check and propagating the change to the plant BOP.

You can specify which types of process areas can contain allocated operations in the MEAllocationLevel preference.

You can enable the display of an allocation symbol in the product BOP and plant BOP structures using the MEProcessIconPropertyNames and MEOperationIconPropertyNames preferences.

This display is turned off by default as enabling the preferences causes structures to load more slowly.