Authoring manufacturing process plans > Creating process structures

Create a new process structure

Create a process as a new root object or as a child of another process by selecting the parent process before you open the New Process dialog box.

Procedure

Choose File→New→Process or click Create a New Process .
In the New Process dialog box, select one of the process types from the list. For more information on creating additional process types, see BMIDE for Data Model Design.
Click Next.
Enter the ID number to be assigned to this new process. If this new process is a revision of an existing one, type the ID of the existing process. You can assign a unique revision number in the Revision box.To let the system automatically assign a unique ID, click Assign.
Type a name for the new process. Make it unique so you can search the database using this term.
Select Show as new root to specify that the newly created process is opened as a root object. It is not pasted to the selected process. If you do not select this option, the new process is pasted as a child of the selected process.If the Show as new root option is selected but unavailable, Teamcenter does not allow you to create a new object under the selected object, for example, if you try to create a work area under a process.
Type a process description.At this point, you have all the information required to create a new process.
(Optional) Click Next to add optional information, such as filling out the item's forms, or checking the process item out of the database.
Enter logical designator information. A logical designator is an expression associated with a process, operation or partition that captures commonality between them. This step appears only if you are creating a process under a generic BOP, and only if your administrator has defined a logical designator class for the process. This form may include mandatory fields. You cannot proceed until these are filled. If you create multiple processes, the information you enter in this form is passed to each logical designator in each new process.Note Propagating changes from a product BOP with logical designators used in multiple operations and a generic BOP using cloning can result in accountability errors. After running an advanced accountability check, operations that should display partial matches are sometimes reported as missing in target and missing in source. Use the Copy and Paste commands between generic and product BOPs rather than cloning.
(Optional) Select Define Options to specify the following:

Select Use item identifier as default display or Use revision identifier as default display if you created an alternate identifier for the item and want to use it as the default display object.

Select Check Out Process Revision on Create to check the newly created process out of the database immediately upon creation.

Click Finish to create the new process.
Click Close to close the New Process dialog box.