Focus Object Selection 

Use

You use this function to define the focus objects in your worklist.

Features

You can enter selection criteria for each object type in the Engineering Workbench. You can also select using a change number.

The selection criteria that you enter refer to the focus of the working area in which you are working.

You enter the selection criterion "externally processed". Which focus objects the system copies to the worklist, depends on the focus of the worklist.

Focus objects dependent on the focus

Focus

Focus Objects

Header

All headers that have an external operation assigned

Operation

All external operations

BOMs

All BOM headers that have external operations assigned (via material-routing assignment and material-BOM assignment).

Item

All items that are assigned to an external operation (via a material component assignment).

 

 

Selection Criteria for Multiple Object Types

You can combine as many selection criteria as you like. The focus objects then have to fulfill all the selection criteria (Boolean AND)

 

The focus of your worklist is Item. You enter the following selection criteria

Focus objects are then all materials 4321, which are used in processing material Model 1 at work center 03 in plant 0001 using a special drill.

Change Number Criterion

You can enter a change number and set the requirement that all focus objects should be assigned to an object that was processed using this change number. You can also define what type of object this should be.

The focus of your worklist is Header. You enter the change number 7. A production resource/tool or inspection characteristic should be sub-ordinate to every focus object (in other words, every header) in your worklist that was processed using this change number.

Selecting Change Statuses

All the change statuses of an object that overlap with the selection period are copied to the worklist, as long as at least one of these change statuses fulfills the selection criteria. For example, you select header as the focus, select the period from January 1 to March 31 as the selection period and want all headers with the Released (general) status to be selected. Header A has three change statuses: In January, header A had the status Created, in February, the status Released for costing and in March, the status Released (general). All three change statuses are copied to the worklist.

Activities

The system copies the focus objects to the worklist. Afterwards the system determines which environment objects are assigned to these focus objects. The system also copies these environment objects to the worklist.