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Creating substitute occurrences

As in the Teamcenter applications, the Manufacturing Process Planner application allows you to create substitute components in your product, process, and work area structures. The substitutes you create are specific to a single occurrence within an assembly.

Some key points for using substitutes include:

One of the substitutes is the preferred substitute and is always displayed in the BOM.
You can change the preferred substitute.
You can add any number of substitute components for a particular line in the BOM.
Substitutes are unique to the BOM. For example, if you were to identify a substitute station in the current work area structure, only the current work area structure is impacted. Other work area structures are not affected.
To view the substitute components for a product, process, or work area, select the component in the structure view. Then click the button.