Introduction
The Engineering Release app allows you to manage the complete engineering definition of products from early definition to final validation in collaboration with multiple disciplines across the value network.
While working with the 150% Engineering Definition, the unit effectivity can be applied and further consumed by downstream applications to retrieve useful information. For example, the manufacturing team can benefit from the unit effectivity definition to identify the quantity of products required for a given unit(s). The procurement team can identify quantity of products to be purchased for a given unit(s). This can be easily achieved through grouping of the instances based on units.
Grouping Product Instances Based on Units
In the R2022x FD04 release, a new functionality was introduced in the Engineering Release app that helps you improve your productivity by easily grouping the units of a given reference product based on their product Instance quantity.
The command, earlier known as “Change Quantity”, is now renamed to the “Instance Quantity”. This command opens a dialog box with the following two tabs:
1) Total Quantity: This tab lets you easily add or remove the instances and also view their details.
2) (New) Quantities by Model: This tab allows you to group your instances as following:
Model: Select Model | Group By: None | With: None
This option is useful when the 150% definition is configured with multiple models. The Model drop-down list lets you select the model and display the instances in the selected model. The table also shows the associated Enterprise Item Number, title, and other details of the instances.
Model: Select Model | Group By: Units | With: None
Product instances are grouped in their associated unit and their quantity is displayed in the “Quantity” column. You can expand the units to view the list of assigned instances and their details.
Model: Select Model | Group By: Units | With: Same Quantities
With this option, all the units that have same quantity of instances are grouped. You can expand this group to view each unit within the group and further expand the unit to view the list of instances in the given unit.
This option is useful when there are many units and you would like to group them based on their instance quantities.
Model: Select Model | Group By: Units | With: Same Quantities that are Consecutive
With this option, all the consecutive units that have the same quantity of instances are grouped.
(Important) Unit Grouping Nomenclature:
- Unit[1]: Indicates only unit 1
- Unit[1-3] [5-8]: Indicates Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 5, Unit 6, Unit 7, Unit 8
- Unit[1] [3-5]: Indicates Unit 1, Unit 3, Unit 4, and Unit 5
