Configuring the generation of smart IDICs

Different solutions in Teamcenter are based on the in-context ID (IDIC). It is useful to generate an IDIC on a structure to be certain that these IDs are available for subsequent actions, for example:

• You want to assign parts to a relevant process or operation where the parts in the BOM are changing often resulting in a loss of occurrence information and you want to avoid having to assign the new parts to the same process or operation manually.

• You want to clone an existing structure and automatically assign the same parts to the new cloned structure.

• You want to compare an intermediate data capture to the structure from which it was made to see what changes have occurred since you created the intermediate data capture.

• You want to compare an EBOM to an EBOM or a process to a process.

• When performing EBOM-MBOM maintenance, for example, by overwriting existing IDIC values in a BOM to ensure consistency.

You can automate the generation of IDICs for BOM lines to be based on the concatenation of other properties of the BOM line. The combination of these properties results in a unique string that Teamcenter assigns as an IDIC.