I’ve never known anyone to use it, but if you are creating a new part to replace one for which transactions exist (and you cannot delete it), you may want to investigate the Supersedes Part/Superseded by Part attributes on the Inventory Part. I was not able to find a way to do this globally on the Engineering Part Revision in PDM. Is there a way to do that?
In our implementation we are using CADTalk to do exactly this. We can even upload a multi-level structure.Agni Link and CADLink are also IFS Partners who provide connectors that do this.
Research Engineering Form, Fit, and Function rules. Governed by processes (like ISO) that would ensure you don’t over time represent one item as another item entirely, the inventory part used for an sales part becomes a unique relationship. You can have 10 different sales parts to represent one inventory part if you want to sell the same item in different ways to different markets. There is a one to many relationship designed to work in this manner in IFS and it follows normal engineering control requirements. You can’t however have a singular sales part represent different underlying inventory parts directly over time. That allows the possibility of a part eventually not meaning the same thing over time which is a poor sales practice and an awful Engineering/Quality process for traceability reasons. You could however, have a hierarchy like this: Sales Part Inventory Part A (acts as an assembly) Inventory Part B (Inventory Part B is valid from 2015 to 2020) Inventory Part C (Inv
You could set a default for this at the site level, but I don’t believe this differentiates between Manufacturing and Purchase structures. I also don’t know whether it will status the Routing.
If an item is a structure parent in Engineering, the component/child can be a phantom and the item can still transfer at Purchased (raw).We have done that for parts of our design that we cannot manufacture; injection molded parts are a great example where I work:Molded part (Buy) Polycarbonate XYZ123 (Phantom) The molded part will successfully transfer as Purchased (raw).
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