Authoring manufacturing process plans > 4D planning – visualizing construction over time
Associate a process and a task
If the schedule and process plan whose tasks and subprocesses you want to link both exist:
Procedure
Open the process and the schedule.
Do one of the following:
Associate from the schedule task to the process structure:
Right-click the schedule task that you want to associate to a process and choose Assignments→Process — Task Association.
Select the process to which you want to associate the task and click in the Process — Task Association dialog box.
Click Associate.
Associate from the process structure to the schedule task.
Right-click the process that you want to associate to a schedule task and choose Link/Associate→Process — Task Association.
Select the schedule task to which you want to associate the process and click in the Process — Task Association dialog box.
Click Associate.
Teamcenter associates the task and the process. You can see these associations by revealing the Associated Tasks column in the structure view or the Associated Processes column in the Schedule Manager view. Additionally, the structure lines contain an additional icon indicating the association.
Symbol
Description
Process that is associated with a task.
Task that is associated with a process.
Related Topics
- Set up 4D planning
Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.mse/xid506471 · retrieved 2026-07-11