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 Management of Technical Objects

Purpose

The Product Structure Browser is a tool from Product Data Management (PDM) with which you can create, manage and display complex product structures. The following scenarios are possible in Plant Maintenance and Customer Service:

  • Creating hierarchical structures for technical objects (for example, functional location hierarchy, equipment hierarchy)

  • Changing the structures of technical objects and the master records for technical objects

  • Displaying the structure for a particular time in the past and thereby seeing changes (installation, dismantling)

  • Displaying environment data within the structure, for example, materials, documents, classes, characteristics

  • Generating a workflow task from the structure, sending a technical object, or storing in a folder

Process Flow

  1. You create a functional location or piece of equipment as the initial object for the structure. To do this, use the usual create transactions.

  2. For more information, see Creation Functions for Functional Locations or Creating Equipment .

  3. For the Product Structure Browser, you first define one or more filters from the Plant Maintenance or Customer Service view.

  4. For more information, see Defining Display Filters for Plant Maintenance .

  5. You activate the filter and call up the initial object in the Product Structure Browser.

  6. In the Product Structure Browser, you create subordinate technical objects, include existing technical objects, or copy partial structures.

  7. For more information, see Creating a Structure .

  8. Once you have created the structure, you process individual technical objects, move them using Drag&Drop, restructure or remove pieces of equipment and relocate partial structures.

  9. For more information, see Processing a Structure .

  10. You can use a different filter to show environment data, such as materials, documents or classes, in the structure.

  11. For more information, see Showing Environment Data .

  12. If you change the date, you can consider the status of the structure at a given time in the past and thereby improve your management of the change status of the structure.

  13. For more information, see Managing Structural Changes .

  14. If follow-up functions result from the processing of a technical object, you generate a workflow task.

  15. For more information, see Information About Structural Changes .

  16. If you want to inform your employees of changes to an object, send the technical object as a SAPOffice mail.

  17. For more information, see Information About Structural Changes .

  18. If you yourself want to create a worklist of objects, which you must change, store these objects in your own object folder.

For more information, see Information About Structural Changes .

Refer to:

For more information about the Product Structure Browser in the PDM environment, see Product Structure Browser .