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Definition

The concept group is a logical collection of functionally related concepts for a component variant.

Use

The concept group is used as follows:

Structure

A concept group contains all implementation options for a component variant. A concept group can comprise any number of concepts.

The following overview shows the essential data of a concept group This graphic is explained in the accompanying text, which is valid for all assigned concepts. This data is entered on several tab pages.

Tab Page

Data

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List of concepts

This list contains all the concepts for a component variant.
The essential concept data is displayed in the list.

  • Name of the concept
  • Indicator specifying whether the filter is active
  • Description
  • Material
  • Quantity and unit of measure
  • Digital mockup (DMU) document

More detailed data of a concept is on the detail screen.

Classification

You use classification to maintain the class assignment for the concept group. Classes of class type 053 (iPPE Nodes) are defined for classifying concept groups.

The characteristic value assignment dataset contains the characteristics of all assigned classes.

Basic Data

The administration data gives information about the creation of and changes to a concept group.

Integration

Customizing

In Customizing for Integrated Product and Process Engineering (iPPE), the settings for processing concepts are defined:

Maintenance

You can only create and maintain a concept group from processing functions for a product structure (This graphic is explained in the accompanying text component variant).

 

 

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