Creating and Connecting Functions—Exercises

IMPORTANT
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Basic Data Setup

Functions

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to register some functions in IFS/PDM–Configuration.

Windows:
Product Basic Data/Functions

  1. If you have not already done so, create the following two functions, as shown below, substituting your initials for XX:
Function No Description
XX–F001 Electrical system
XX–F002 Cooling system
  1. Save your changes.

General exercise for Product Basic

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 this exercise is to register functions, create a functional structure by connecting the functions to the project items.

Windows:
Project Product
Project Product/Functions
Project Product/Function Structure
Project Product/Items

Creating and Connecting Functions to Project Items

  1. Open the Project Product window and query for your project XXPD–01.
  2. Click the Functions tab. 
  3. Create two new records.
  4. In the Function no list, enter the the two functions XX–F001 and XX–F002.  
  5. Save your changes.
  6. Click the Function Structure tab. 
  7. Build a functional structure by clicking the function XX–F001 in the navigator and connecting parts 20–130 (Electric System 1600) and 20–10XX (Engine 1600) from the List of Values.
  8. Save your changes.
  9. Do the same steps 7–8 for function XX–F002 and part 20–140 (Cooling System 1600).
  10. Click the Items tab.
  11. To review the functional structure, click the top item, and right-click and then click Project Item Navigator.
  12. Expand all the levels in the structure to view the connected functions. Note that you can add a function to a project item through this navigator by selecting the item, and right-clicking and then clicking Add – Functions.