Designing process structure > Creating operations and activities

Create a new operation

After you create a top-level manufacturing process, create the individual operations completed as part of the process.

Note

You may also want to create stand-alone operations that are not part of a process structure so you can save these operations as templates and clone their structures.

Procedure

In a process structure view, select the process to which you want to add an operation.If the new operation is not to be associated with a process, skip this step.
Choose File→New→Operation, or click Create New Operation on the toolbar.The New Operation dialog box is displayed.
Select one of the operation types from the list.
Click Next.
Enter the ID number to be assigned to this new operation. If this new operation is a revision of an existing one, type the ID of the existing operation. You can assign a unique revision number in the Revision field.To let the system automatically assign a unique ID, click Assign.
Type a name for the new operation. Make it unique so you can search the database using this term.
Select Show as new root to specify that the newly created operation is opened as a root object. It is not pasted to the selected object. If you do not select this option, the new operation is pasted as a child of the selected process.If the Show as new root option is selected but unavailable, Teamcenter does not allow you to create a new object under the selected object, for example, if you try to create an operation under a part.
Type an operation description.At this point, you have all the information required to create a new operation.
(Optional) Click Next to add optional information, such as filling out the operation's forms, or checking the operation out of the database.
Enter logical designator information. A logical designator is an expression associated with a process, operation or partition that captures commonality between them. This step appears only if you are creating an operation under a generic BOM, and only if your administrator has defined a logical designator class for the operation. This form may include mandatory fields. You cannot proceed until these are filled. If you create multiple operations, the information you enter in this form is passed to each logical designator in each new operation.
(Optional) Select Define Options to specify the following:

Select Use item identifier as default display or Use revision identifier as default display if you created an alternate identifier for the item and want to use it as the default display object.

Select Check Out Operation Revision on Create to check the newly created operation out of the database immediately upon creation.

Click Finish to create the new operation.
Click Close to close the New Operation dialog box.

After the operations are created, create the individual activities that are to be performed as part of this operation.