Managing bills of equipment > Creating plant structures

Create a new work area structure

The physical layout of equipment in each work area and the relative locations of these areas throughout the plant are the scope of the work area structure definitions. Standard equipment is organized hierarchically into work areas depending on their location on the shop floor.

Procedure

Open a plant structure in a structure view.
Choose File→New→Work Area, or click Create Work Area .
In the New Work Area dialog box, select one of the work area types from the list.For more information on creating additional work area types, see BMIDE for Data Model Design.
Click Next.
Enter the ID number to be assigned to this new work area. If this new work area is a revision of an existing one, type the ID of the existing work area. You can assign a unique revision number in the Revision field.To let the system automatically assign a unique ID, click Assign.
Type a name for the new work area. Make it unique so you can search the database using this term.
Select Show as new root to specify that the newly created work area is opened as a root object. It is not pasted to the selected work area. If you do not select this option, the new work area is pasted as a child of the selected work area.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 work area description.At this point, you have all the information required to create a new process.
(Optional) Select a unit of measure from the Unit of Measure list.
(Optional) Click Next to add optional information, such as filling out the work area item's forms, or checking the work area item out of the database.
(Optional) Click 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 Workarea Revision on Create to check the newly created work area out of the database immediately upon creation.

Click Finish to create the new work area.
Click Close to close the New Work Area dialog box.