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Use

The product structure the following objects or relationships are assigned values that are maintained in the Engineering Workbench:

Materials

Routing

Bill of material (BOM)

Reference operation set

Item

Inspection plan

When an object or a relationship is maintained in the Engineering Workbench you can start the maintenance directly from the product structure.

Prerequisites

Under the Settings for the product structure the New display version is activated.

The maintenance possibilities using the Engineering Workbench are displayed in the following ways:

  • The object relationship is indicates by the icon  ( ) in the display column Workbench .

  • The entry Workbench is in the context menu of the object or relationship.

Starting the Engineering Workbench using the Context Menu

  1. Select the icon of the object such as  ( ) material) or relationship such as  ( ) item.

  2. Depress the right –hand mouse button to call up the context menu.

  3. The entry Workbench is in the context menu of the object when it can be maintained using the Engineering Workbench.

  4. Select the entry Workbench .

Starting the Engineering Workbench using the Icon

  1. Select the icon of the object such as  ( ) material) or relationship such as  ( ) item.

  2. Change the display variants so that the display column shows Workbench .

  • Highlight the column Workbench .

  • Press the left-hand mouse button and pull the column to the desired position.

  1. Click on  ( ) to start the Workbench.

Result

  • The Work area dialog box appears if you have not set up a work area.

  • Enter a work area that can be used to display or process the object types (for example, BOM processing).

  • Choose Continue .

  • Depending on the object or relationship where you started the Workbench, you will end in one of these overviews:

You can use all active Engineering Workbench functions.

After you have changed and saved your data you can return to the product structure.