Assigning Components with the Product-Process Assignment List 

Use

You can use the product-process assignment list to check whether you have already assigned the nodes and component variants that you created for the components to the relevant activities. You can completely assign all the components from a product structure to a process structure.

You can only carry out the assignment for substructures by specifying substructures from your line routing or routing instead of a routing header.

Prerequisites

·        You have created a product structure.

·        You have created a routing or a line routing.

Procedure

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       1.      Choose View ® Applications ® Prod.-Process Assignment in the iPPE Workbench Professional.

       2.      Choose either Access via Direct Selection or Access via Production Version. Choose Continue.

This takes you to the application list.

       3.      If you selected Access via Direct Selection, specify a product structure by entering the name, and class and alternative if applicable, of the access node or higher-level structure node to which the iPPE nodes for the components are assigned. To load the process structure, enter a line routing or routing header, grouping activity, or operation.

       4.      If you selected Access via Production Version, enter the material number, plant and production version of the product that is to be produced.

The system uses the iPPE access object from the production version to determine the product and process structures

       5.      Choose Continue.

The process structure is loaded in the navigation tree. The product structure is displayed in the list.

The component variants are displayed for each structure node. You can see whether the components have already been assigned in the Assigned column. You can see the activity to which the components have been assigned in the Assigned Act. column. The system indicates whether the component variant of a node has been assigned to a different activity than the node itself in the Different Activity column.

The system checks for the following cases and displays the results in the assigned column:

Directly assigned

In this case, you have assigned the structure node (without component variants), or the component variant to an activity.

Indirectly assigned

In this case, you have assigned only the structure node to an activity. The component variants have been assigned indirectly through the component node.

Not assigned

In this case, you have not yet assigned any components.

Partly assigned

This information is displayed on node-level only. In this case, some of the component variants have been assigned, some have not. The structure node itself has not yet been assigned.

Completely assigned

This information is displayed on node-level only. In this case, all the structure variants have been assigned but the structure node itself has not yet been assigned.

Redundant assignment

In this case, you have assigned a structure node to an activity, and a component variant of this structure node to the same activity.

Multiple assignment

In this case you have assigned one structure node to two different activities. This is not allowed.

Select the line for the node or component variant to assign it to an activity. Click on the component name and assign it to the correct activity using Drag & Drop.

When you use the mouse to move an object using Drag & Drop, the cursor icon changes to  to show that the object has been picked up.

       6.      Save the assignments.

       7.      To specify when the component is to be used, make an entry in the time of material consumption field and select Enter. Finally, choose Save.

The entry you make for the time of material consumption is only relevant for planning for shop floor production. This entry is not considered when the product and process structures are exploded if you work with takt-based production lines for repetitive manufacturing.

Result

If the status is green for every line, all the components have been completely assigned.