Getting started with Multi-Structure Manager

Multi-Structure Manager allows you to manage any of the structure types compatible with Teamcenter, including product structures and manufacturing process structures.

In the Multi-Structure Manager application, you can:

• Collect a subset of data for comparison and analysis purposes, such as for a design study. You can copy components (for example, piece parts or assemblies) from a base structure into a design study, called a composition, where you can add new parts and experiment without changing the original base structure. You can analyze any changes before committing them. Links are maintained from components placed in the design study back to the original base structure. Any changes in configuration (revision or variant rule) in the base structure are reflected in the design study. Because a composition can collect components from different structures, you can use these to design interface parts such as a mounting bracket that attaches one product to another.

• Capture the state of any structure or part of a structure for subsequent retrieval and viewing. This captured data does not represent the final released state of the structure, so it is referred to as an intermediate data capture (IDC). The configuration rules are saved with the structure allowing its exact state at the time of capture to be reproduced each time it is retrieved. Creating an IDC does not affect any subsequent changes to the structure or its release by a Workflow process. The captured data is independent of subsequent changes made to the structure or part.

• Collect a subset of data to send to an external application, for example, Tecnomatix, NX, or third-party applications. Because Multi-Structure Manager allows the configuration (revision and variant) to be stored with the structure, this configuration is passed along with the structure to the external application.

• Open multiple BOM structures, configure these as you would in Structure Manager, perform an accountability check and then save all of this to a collaboration context.

Your Teamcenter administrator may customize the functionality of your particular collaboration context.