Configuring the publish feature

Manufacturing Process Management allows you to create publishing pages that can be viewed or printed by nontechnical users with limited computer skills, such as assembly personnel. Publishing pages is a general term for any document used by manufacturing personnel, including work instructions, maintenance instructions, assembly instructions or any other documentation needed for your processes.

To create or view manufacturing documentation, install Microsoft Visio on each workstation where you author publishing pages. Both Visio Standard and Visio Professional are supported. You can install Visio before or after the Teamcenter installation. For certified versions, see the Hardware and Software Certifications knowledge base article on Support Center.

Publishing pages can be published to PDF or HTML so that they can be viewed independently of Teamcenter or Visio.

You create a template for each of the publishing page types needed in your organization from assets (Visio shapes) that are bound to Teamcenter data. The process planners use these templates to create publishing pages that may include text, tables, graphics, 2D or 3D snapshot (product views), and link assets. When all the publishing pages are complete, the process planner can collect them into a technical portfolio that may contain all the activity, operation, and process documentation for a particular assembly line. Users manipulate publishing pages and portfolios in the Manufacturing Process Planner, Part Planner, Resource Manager, Plant Designer, and Multi-Structure Manager applications. They may also add 3D annotations where appropriate. For detailed procedures, see the procedures for viewing, creating, and editing manufacturing documentation in the guides for those applications.

In addition to creating manufacturing documentation in Microsoft Visio, you can create links that point to manufacturing documentation in Microsoft Word and text files.

You can optionally publish manufacturing documentation in PDF format. If you publish a PDF of a portfolio, Teamcenter attaches the PDF dataset to the portfolio. If you create a PDF of a publishing page, Teamcenter attaches the PDF dataset to the page dataset. You must install PDF generation software to use this feature, for example, an Adobe product.