Automatically assign welds to stations

You can automatically assign manufacturing features from a manufacturing bill of materials (MBOM) to plant bill of process (BOP) areas, stations, and lines simultaneously, and then refine the assignments later. This method of assignment is faster than manually assigning each weld or arc weld feature one at a time. Teamcenter searches through the consumed parts in the specified process structures and finds parts that have connected features. It then creates operations and assigns the features to those operations.

Note

You must install the weld management environment manager template to use this functionality.

The type of structure to which you can select and apply features in the plant BOP is dependent on the values in the ProcessStationForAutomatedMfgAssignment preference. Use this preference to apply features to a process area, process line, process station, process, or station in a plant BOP.

This example demonstrates how to assign features to lines and stations in a plant BOP.

Procedure

1. If you moved parts in your plant BOP between lines and stations so that they are consumed in different locations, update the PERT flows. While dynamic in-process assembly (DIPA) nodes do not appear in the BOP, they are created internally.

Select the top line of the plant BOP and choose Tools → Update Flows.

In the Update Flows dialog box, select Include Structure Sub-Hierarchies and click OK.

2. Right-click the source MBOM or target plant BOP for the assignment and choose Automatic MFG Assignment.

   Note You can also select a process area, line, or station. Only welds from your selected scope will be assigned. If you select only the bill of materials, you must select the target process in the resulting dialog box. If you select only the target process, the dialog box displays all open product structures. You can add or remove source structures using the or buttons; you can remove target processes using the button. The order in which the processes are listed in the Target Processes list is the order in which the assignment mechanism processes the structures for assignment.

3. Click OK, and at the warning prompt, click OK again.

The assignment mechanism searches through the consumed parts in the specified process structures and finds the parts that have features connected.

4. (Optional) Open the Automatic Feature Assignment Report.

Teamcenter displays a report indicating which operations were created. It also indicates which features are assigned. Any features that are:

Successfully assigned are displayed in the Assigned MFGs column.

Already assigned in plant BOP structures but are connected to parts that are not consumed, removed, or changed in the product structure, are displayed in the Obsolete MFGs column.

Already assigned in the plant BOP structures are displayed in the Already Assigned MFGs column.

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