List of manufacturing views

Teamcenter presents manufacturing data in views, each view providing its own specific way of managing or modifying the data. The views provide an environment where you can author manufacturing processes based on information available in Teamcenter. You can construct processes and operations, relate additional relevant information, view alternatives and isolated studies, and collaborate with others who are working on the same information.

There are primary views and secondary views. A primary view shows one configurable structure. That structure can contain a base view and several occurrence groups. A secondary view shows specific data and, depending on your needs, can change its content if you select a new object in a primary view.

View Icon	Name	Description
	2D Viewer	You can have one or many two-dimensional snapshots associated with a line in your product structure. When you open a selected line in the 2D Viewer view, Teamcenter displays an attached image dataset. If there are multiple image datasets attached, you can select any preferred image.
	Accountability Check	Displays the results of an accountability check. This view lists the problem lines in the source and target and provides a list of conflict details. Lines that are colored in the source and target structures are also colored in the view. Fully matched lines are not listed.
	Activities	Displays all activities to be completed as part of the operation selected in a process. This view is structure-dependent (it displays a tree table). Each listed activity is an expandable folder. Folder contents may include additional subactivities. Tip You can open many secondary views for activities, including the PERT or Attachments views.
	Advanced Accountability Check	Displays the results of an advanced accountability check. The Advanced Accountability Check view lets you compare and propagate multiple types of views/structures, run assessment comparisons to repair one structure from another, set reporting and equivalence options, and set partial match criteria for different types of structures. Many options are available, other than those the standard accountability check offers.
	Assignments	Displays logical assignments and their resolved part assignments. It also displays part consumptions of the selected process/operation, even if these are not related to the logical assignments, or if the process/operation has no logical assignments. Any filtering that is applied to the assignments in the BOP tree (such as by occurrence type, revision rules, variant rules, or incremental change) is also automatically applied to the assignments in the Assignments view.
	Attachments	A structure-dependent data view that is always available when an object is selected in a structure view, the Attachments view displays the properties of all components attached to the selected object, including the base item component and all related subcomponents. Standard Teamcenter shortcut menu commands are available for any displayed object. Double-click an attachment on this view to open the attachment in its appropriate application. Note The process revision is determined by the product structure's revision rule. This information cannot be specified in this view.
	Design BOM	A CAD Bill of Materials (BOM), also called a design structure, is a type of primary structure view that displays parts from an original Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model or Electronic BOM (EBOM) and is often aligned to a part BOM.
,	Classic Bill of Process (BOP)	A type of legacy primary structure view that corresponds to the organization of a plant structure's Bill of Equipment (BOE), and defines process areas, stations, and operations in which a product is assembled. A best practice is to migrate classic BOPs to plant BOPs.
	Classification Properties	Shows the classification attribute values that exist in the Classification application for the object currently selected in the structure view if that object is classified. This data is informational only and cannot be changed in this view. You must change the data through the Classification application.
	Collaboration Context Tree	Contains a list of all structures currently open in the application. You can use the Collaboration Context (CC) view to load and unload structures, as well as to save structures as new structure contexts. The Collaboration Context Tree does not respond to selection in other views.
	Engineering BOM (EBOM)	One of the most important primary structure views, the Engineering BOM (EBOM), sometimes also called a Computer Aided Design (CAD) BOM, is a breakdown of a three-dimensional product design consisting of part and assembly models. Because the order of parts and assemblies does not necessarily reflect the needs of manufacturing processes, the EBOM is used to generate a Manufacturing BOM (MBOM). You must continually compare and update the EBOM and MBOM, often using an advanced accountability check, to reflect engineering and manufacturing changes that occur during the manufacturing process.
	Graphics	Displays any 3D visualization data associated with the selected structure. The Graphics view is closely associated with the primary view from which you open it. If you close the associated primary view, Teamcenter closes the Graphics view as well.
	Impact Analysis	Identifies which other database components reference and thereby impact an object currently selected in a structure view, and displays any assemblies in which the selected object appears. Note You can use the Filter by Item Type command to display all operations currently associated with, and performed at, the work area selected in a plant structure.
	Incremental Change	Allows you to add, edit, or remove incremental changes from a selected line.
	IDC	Displays any Intermediate Data Captures (IDCs) associated with the selected structure. You can switch between captured states of an IDC by selecting from the Captured State list.
NA	Linked Occurrence Paths	Available only when you select a consumed part in a process structure. Displays the path to the root of the source product in Multi-Structure Manager. Even if the source part is removed from its parent product after it is assigned to a process, you can still see the path that existed when the part was originally assigned to the process.
	Manufacturing BOM (MBOM)	One of the most important primary structure views, the Manufacturing BOM (MBOM) is a breakdown of a three-dimensional product design consisting of part and assembly models, usually derived from an Engineering BOM (EBOM) or design BOM, that reflects the needs of manufacturing processes. You must continually compare and update the EBOM and MBOM, often using an advanced accountability check, to reflect engineering and manufacturing changes that occur during the manufacturing process.
	Manufacturing Features	Shows all manufacturing features (welds, arc welds, and datums) under the current product scope in a table-like view. The view helps you manage scattered manufacturing features in a product structure in an easy and systematic way. Because the features displayed in the Manufacturing Features view are BOM lines, you can use the shortcut menu to perform many tasks.
	PAD Element	One of three views that help you to work with Process Assembly Documents (PADs). Displays information about MEPADElement items and assists you in consuming elements into the PAD structure.
	PAD	One of three views that helps you work with PADs. The PAD view displays information about the MEPAD item and lists its child MEPSD items.
	PERT	You can open this chart view for a process displayed in a structure view or for activities displayed in the Activities view. When opened on a process, the Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) view shows the sequence of the first-level processes or operations that exist for the selected process. When opened on a top-level activity, the PERT chart displays the first-level activities. Each process or operation within the selected process is represented by a box in this view. Each box contains the name and ID of the process or operation. Use this view to arrange the boxes and create a sequential flow of processes, operations, or activities within the selected object.
	Plant	A type of primary structure view that displays the plant, work areas, work stations, lines, or any physical location where your manufacturing processes take place. This view is sometimes referred to as a work area view.
	Plant Bill of Process (BOP)	A type of primary structure view that displays resources necessary for a plant to assemble a product.
	Process Gantt	Displays processes and operations and the relations between them in a bar chart that illustrates the work breakdown structure of a project using a time line, from the start and finish times of the operations or processes and summary elements (operations or higher level processes). The Gantt view also shows the dependency (sequence) of relationships between the elements.
NA	Product Manual	Displays work instructions created and edited using a Product Manual role.
	Product	Displays the product that you want to manufacture in a hierarchical tree structure. If you open a product, the structure view contains the product hierarchy being manufactured. You can allocate any consumed parts and workpieces or subsets of workpieces to an operation's setup.
	Product Bill of Process (BOP)	A type of primary structure view that displays processes and operations necessary to assemble a product. A product BOP is usually linked to a plant BOP.
	Product View Search	Helps you search for all product views associated with a particular part so that you can update them.
	PSD	One of three views that helps you work with process assembly documents. The PSD view displays information about the MEPSD item and lists its child MEPADElement items.
NA	Report	Supports the creation of reports for all three types of structures: products, processes (including their operations and activities), and plants. The generated report is presented through a browser window. You can create customized style sheets or use other formatting tools to customize both the data content and the report format.
	Schedule Manager	Helps you to perform 4D planning within Manufacturing Process Planner. 4D planning adds a time component to process planning. It is used in very large structures to visualize what parts have already been assembled on a specific date in a specific part of the structure.
	Standard Text	Enables you to create and manage standard text elements such as text, data collection definitions, and symbols that are compiled to create textual work instructions. The Standard Text view is generally used by the standard text librarian to manage the elements that the work instruction author chooses to create work instructions. Creating work instructions using standard text promotes standardization and consistency of work instructions throughout the organization. You can create the elements once, and then reuse them many times.
	Standard Text Library	Helps you to create standard textual work instructions. A standard text library is a structure comprised of standard text folders and standard text elements nested under the folders.
	Structure	When you open the application, there are three empty structure views entitled Product, Process, and Plant. These views are placeholders for structures that you open. When you open a structure, it opens in the associated structure view and Teamcenter displays the information as a tree structure. You can open multiple structures at once, including multiple products, processes, or plants. Each of these structures is displayed in a different view. You can configure these structures using revision rules, variant conditions, and effectivity dates. If you open a process, the structure view shows the process hierarchy in the sequence it uses for manufacturing the product. The process structure contains subprocesses and operations. You can view the workflow from one process to the next, as well as see parallel processes. You can also see alternate processes for creating the target product and allocate work area items, tooling, and workpieces to a specific process. If you open a plant, the structure view displays your factory environment hierarchy as a tree structure. The root level identifies the high-level plant structure. Each layer beneath the root level breaks down the work areas within the plant until the lowest level in the structure represents individual work areas where specific operations are performed. Structure views are primary views for which you can open a variety of secondary views that provide detail information about the selected line. Although product, process, and plant are the most common types of structures that open in a primary view, there are additional types of structures that open in primary views, including an Intermediate Data Capture view, a Requirements view (when working in Systems Engineering), and a Standard Text view.
	Structure Search	Helps you perform a multitude of advanced searches on view structures using various properties of the structure's lines. The search is not limited to the loaded lines of the structure and can search an entire structure without you having to load it.
	Study	Provides an environment where you can scope data to perform trial study activities. You can use the Study view to send structures to Process Simulate or to create and manage tool design packages.
	Textual Work Instructions	Helps you to author work instructions by choosing from a library of standard text elements. Using this view, you can quickly create or edit textual work instructions for manufacturing processes or operations.
	TiCon Search	Allows you to access time data and assign data to activities from TiCon, an external time management system, using a web service. You can search for time elements in TiCon, create new activities, or overwrite existing activities with the timing data of time elements, and update activities assigned to time elements that were changed in TiCon.
	Time	Stores and manages individual times for each activity, operation, or process in a process structure. This view provides information specific to the process or operation so that its appearance varies depending on which process or operation you select.
	Variants	Allows you to display and edit variant options, option defaults, and rule checks currently defined for the product selected in the structure pane.
	Viewer	Displays the content of a dataset that is attached to an item revision with a Rendering relationship, where possible. For example, if you select a text dataset, the viewer displays a text editor with the content of that text dataset. If you select a dataset containing a JT file, the viewer displays the JT.
	Workarea	A type of primary structure view used to display a plant, work area, work station, or any physical location where your manufacturing processes take place. This is sometimes referred to as the plant view.

Note

The PS_assume_legacy_transform_units preference determines how Teamcenter interprets the units of measure for legacy transform data. Teamcenter and NX currently use meters for transform units of measure; legacy measurements were in inches or millimeters. This preference affects all data using legacy transforms that have no database-resident indication of the unit measurement stored with them. The default setting is Unknown. If the preference is left in the default setting, you may see discrepancies between the model and display units when you view collaboration context structures in Manufacturing Process Planner.