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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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 also shows the dependency (sequence) of relationships between the elements.
	Product	Displays the product that you want to manufacture in a hierarchical tree structure.
	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.
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.
	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 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.
	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.