Monitoring All Parts in the Project Product Structure—Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Required Data

Creating a Project Product Structure

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize you with the data that must be in place before you can do the the exercises below.

  1. Create a project product structure.
  2. Save your changes.

General exercise for Creating Project Product Structures 

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to check parts and their occurrences in the project product structure and viewing the structure in the navigator.

Windows:
Project Product
Project Product/Part Definition
Project Product/Items

Note: The parts below have been created in the Creating Project Product Structure exercise.

Checking Project Items in the Part Definition Tab

  1. Open the Project Product window and query for your project XXPD–01.
  2. Click the Part Definition tab. 
  3. Check each part's part revision and item occurrences. 
  4. Click the Items tab.
  5. Create a new record.
  6. In the Part Number field, enter 20–11XX (Engine Block 1600) or select it from the List of Values.
  7. In the Part Revision field, enter R01.
  8. In the MPL Part list, click Demand.
  9. Check the value of the Provide Code field. Modify this value, if required. 
  10. Save your changes.
  11. Click the Part Definition tab and observe the item occurrence for 20–11XX. 
  12. Click the Items tab and delete part 20–11XX, the part you just added, by clicking Remove.
  13. Save your changes.
  14. Click the Part Definition tab and observe that the item occurrence for this part has decreased.

Viewing the Project Structure in the Project Item Navigator

  1. Open the Project Product window and query for your project XXPD–01.
  2. Click the Items tab.
  3. Select the top item 20–10XX (Engine 1600), and right-click and then click Project Item Navigator.
  4. Select 20–10XX, and right-click and then click Expand.
  5. Select 20–10XX, and right-click and then click Collapse in the navigator.

  6. Check the different tabs and observe that some of these tabs are also found in the Project Item and Project Product windows.