Incremental change overview

You can control changes to a structure by revising the affected items. Because many changes may be small and not related to each other, Teamcenter allows you to create incremental changes to add components to and remove them from the structure. Each incremental change consequently comprises several individual and possibly unrelated revisions to a component, occurrence, or attachment in the structure.

An incremental change groups several individual changes that can be released simultaneously to a baseline of the process or product. You can define an effectivity for an incremental change, allowing (for example) all changes related to the production of a new model to be implemented simultaneously. You normally assign an effectivity expressed as a date range or sequence of serial numbers to the change, ensuring that all grouped additions and removals happen at the same time.

An incremental change may have revisions, and you can configure the various components, occurrences and attachments to a specific revision by applying appropriate revision rules.