Create flows to and from external processes or operations

You can add processes or operations to a PERT chart that are not immediate children of the process on which you open the PERT chart. Any flows you create to and from these external processes or operations are called scope flows. This is useful when you model fishbone structures of sublines merging or leaving a main line.

You can create scope flows between the following structures:

• Processes

• Processes and operations

• Process areas

• All types of process areas

Procedure

1. With a process open in the PERT chart, select an external node in the same process structure. This node can be a sibling of the process that you send to the PERT or it can be any child of a sibling.

2. Click Add External Nodes .

Teamcenter adds the process or operation to the PERT chart with a gray background.

3. Create a flow to or from the external node.

4. (Optional) Select an external node and click to remove the node.

Results

When you revise a part, any existing scope flows are copied. If you then delete the copied flow, the scope flow between the original parts still exists. This behavior means that different revisions of parts can participate in different scope flows.

Scope flows after revise	Scope flows after deleting new scope flow