Product
Structure Browser: More PDM Objects as Part of Analysis 
Use
As of this Release objects of the area of PDM can be read in the Product Structure Browser so that links and relations can be analyzed.
Additionally further objects from plant maintenance have more maintenance functions.
Objects from Configuration Management
With this Release you can use functions from Configuration Management.
- For this area the configuration definition
have been added as intital objects for the product structure.
The system reports the defined phases and theirconfiguration folders.
- The following relationships are also analyzed from the environment of Configuration Management:
- Predecessor and sucessor folders
- Controlled object (document, material)
- Objects contained (documents, materials, material BOMs)
- Configuration folder
- Documents
- Objects contained (documents, materials, material BOMs)
Value assinment for task lists
In this Release you can only use a task list as an initial object when it is linked to another object. In this case the information about the task list is displayed. The system reports all task lists that exist for a material.
The following overview contains all task lists, routings, reference operation sets, and inspection plans as well as the relations that are read and have values assigned to them:
- Routings
- Sequences
- Materials
- Classification
- Reference operation sets
- Operations
- Materials
- Classification
- Referenced operations
- Inspection plans
- Operations
- Materials
- Classification
Value assignment for objects from quality management
You can also explode objects from quallity management as initial objects when there is a link for a material to this object. This display the information for the object such as the system reports all master inspection characteristics for a material specification.
The following overview shows the relationships that can be exploded:
- Material specification
- Master inspection characteristic
- Material
- Inspection characteristic
- Master inspection characteristic
- Operation
- Master inspection characteristic
- Characteristic
- Usage in inspection characteristics
- Usage in material specification
- Classification
Enhanced filter settings
Selection for the filter has been changed to match the PDM enivornment.
Maintenance functions for technical objects
You can now start many maintenance functions directly from the results screen of the Produxt Structure Browsers. This allows for centralized control of technical objects.
The graphical user interface (GUI) of the Product Structure Browser allows maintenance of the structure from plant maintenance:
- Functional location
- Equipment
All object specific functions for these objects
can be called and started from the context menu (right.hand mouse button
click) in the Product Structure Browser. Activate the New Display
Version in the settings for the product structure.
You can find an overview of the functions under SAP Library (General
Application Components -> Document Management -> Product Structure
Browser -> Processing objects of a product structure).