About multi-unit configuration

Teamcenter allows you to configure product structure occurrences of an assembly based on specified multiple end items and the unit effectivity ranges for each of those end items. You can do impact analysis and eliminate the duplicate work required to maintain different product structures and complicated manual reconciliation.

A combination of multiple end items and range of units for each end item used to configure product structure occurrences is referred to as a multi-unit configuration.

The administrator at your site enables this feature. It allows you to:

• Specify multi-unit configurations and save them as effectivity groups.

• Save a combination of effectivity groups and revision rule as a configurator context. You can use the saved configurator context to apply the effectivity groups and revision rule to configure occurrences.

• View the configured structure in Lifecycle Visualization, CAD tools, and the embedded viewers of appropriate rich client applications.

• Configure occurrences by matching the occurrence effectivity with the multi-unit configuration.

• Configure occurrences that are added and deleted by incremental changes by matching the incremental change effectivity with the multi-unit configuration. Note Teamcenter displays the Revision Rule Entry value for an incremental change (IC) configured by a multi-unit configuration as Effectivity Group. Therefore, ignore the status of this check box in the IC Information pane. When an occurrence has occurrence effectivity and it is removed in the context of an IC, the occurrence is not configured if the multi-unit configuration matches the effectivity of the removing IC. This occurs whether the occurrence effectivity matches partially or completely with the multi-unit configuration. Multi-unit configuration does not support nested effectivity and effectivity mapping.