Understanding end item assemblies

An end item is a final combination of consumed end products, component parts, and/or materials that are not currently of interest in a manufacturing process. You can specify an assembly in a product or plant structure as an end item assembly. When you expand a product structure, Teamcenter does not expand beyond the item designated as an end item assembly. Teamcenter does, however, store all visualization information necessary to view the assembly in both the embedded and stand-alone viewers.

You can define an end item assembly on the item level or on the occurrence level. Once defined on the item level, every future occurrence is defined as an end item assembly on its occurrence as well. If you define it on the selected occurrence, and that occurrence exists in other places, it is technically the same occurrence and is defined as an end item assembly there as well. This is the same occurrence only if a parent node is shared between the structures. If the end item assembly itself is copied to another structure, this is a different occurrence.

You can also apply an end item to a specific line in a structure without affecting occurrences in other structures. The end item applies only to that occurrence and has no impact on the source structure or other occurrences.

You can temporarily allow expansion to display the lines below the end item assembly in Manufacturing Process Planner. This expansion is valid for the current window session only. Expansion also occurs if you use Find commands or when loading product views that contain references to lines below an end item assembly.

The end item assembly feature is enabled using the EndItemState preference.

Note

Your administrator must configure the export behavior for suppressed end item assemblies using closure rules.

Key points about viewing End Item Assemblies

• It is recommended that the End Item Assembly State column not be displayed. It is not an editable column and is not critical for determining if an item is an end item assembly.

• To identify end items, it is best to refer to the icon that represents an end item.

• To show an end item structure:

  Right-click the end item.
    
  
  
  Choose Expand End Item.
  

  The end item structure is displayed, and the end item icon turns white.

• After expanding an end item, to hide it again, you must unload and then reload the structure.