Managing time

Performing a time analysis

When Teamcenter performs a time analysis, it calculates total work and total duration of descendents of the selected object. In addition, it calculates the time required for each category of time and displays these in a pie chart. By default, Teamcenter provides you with three categories of activities, value-added (VA), non-value-added (NVA), non-value-added but required (NVABR). Your administrator can configure the time view to suit your needs.

If you select an operation, Teamcenter performs a time analysis automatically when you open the Time view.
If you select a process, these calculations can be very time-consuming, so you must initiate them manually by clicking Calculate.

Note

Teamcenter caches the time analysis calculations for a process but does not update them automatically if any changes occur. If you make any changes that affect stored times, you must click Calculate again to obtain the updated values.

Teamcenter does not save the time analysis information to the database, it only saves it in the current session. It does this because a time analysis result depends on the current configuration of the structure. You can generate a report of the time analysis which is saved as an attachment to the process.