Create concept 

Use

A concept contains a specific realization option for a component variant. It provides the information required for this specific possible solution, such as a digital mockup (DMU) document or material data.

Prerequisites

You have maintained the product structure in the iPPE Workbench. The product structure contains at least one component variant that has a concept group. Choose the following path: Logistics ® Central Functions ® Engineering ® Product and Process Engineering ® Product Designer.

Procedure

Start the product designer in change mode. Load the product structure, and display the Basic data 1 tab page for the component variant .

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       1.      In the Concept Reference dataset, choose  (Detail View) for the concept group. 

You see the list of individual concepts .

       2.      Make a new entry for the concept, with language-independent key and language-dependent description.

       3.      The rest of the procedure is dependent on the task in hand:

-          If you want to save the concept and the assignment to the concept group, choose .

If you want to enter further detail data, select the concept and choose  (Detail Data). The concept data is entered on several tab pages.

The following overview lists the essential functions for processing a concept.

Function	Procedure
Create concept	On the Concepts tab page, you create concepts for the individual realization options. The first concept you create automatically becomes the Active Concept. Once there is more than one concept, you can activate whichever concept you want. See Defining an Active Concept
Maintain document	On the Documents tab page, you maintain the document link or create a new document. ·        If you want to enter an assignment to an existing document, enter the data of the document key. Confirm your entries. The system determines further document data (such as description, status, and revision level) from the document info record. ·        If you want to create a new document, choose  Create. You see a series of dialog boxes in sequence, where you enter data for your new document info record and for processing the original application file, such as: -          Document type -          Selection of the original application file, using the file manager -          Workstation application -          Secure storage area where the original application file is saved to
Classify concept	You classify the concept on the Classification tab page. You can classify a concept in classes of class type 056 (iPPE Variants). ·        Choose  Classification. ·        In the Assignments dataset, choose  Insert Line.  Display the possible entries for the class and select a class. ·        When you confirm the class, the characteristics of the class are added to the Values dataset. You can assign values to the characteristics for the concept here.
Display basic data	On the Basic data tab page, display the administration data.

       4.      Once you have entered your data on a tab page, confirm your entries.

       5.      To save your data, choose .

Result

You have maintained the detail data for the concept.

Once you have maintained the possible concepts, you can activate a concept and simulate the data transfer to the component variant.

See:

Defining an Active Concept

Simulating Data Transfer

Copying Concept Data to the Component Variant