Engineering Transfer- Key Exercises

IMPORTANT
If you are a student, 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

Setting Up Engineering Transfer

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to set up the basic data required for running this particular functionality.

Windows:
Manufacturing Standard Basic Data/Part Transfer Template

If you not already have, you need to do the following:

  1. Enter a manufacturing engineer
  2. Set up an engineering transfer site role
  3. Set up the default part template

General exercise for Setting up Engineering Transfer

Product Structure

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to build product structures to be transferred.

Windows:
Engineering Part Revision/Consists Of

  1. Build a structure for Part 20–100 Engine according to structure below.

  1. Save your changes.

General exercise for Building a Product Structure

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to show you how to transfer parts from IFS Engineering using a direct transfer. By using Assign and/or Ignore, you can easily control which parts are transferred.

Windows:
Engineering Revision Transfers
Engineering Revision Transfer Actions
 Product Structure

Assign/Ignore Transfer

  1. Open the Engineering Revision Transfers window.
  2. Select your site from the List of Values.
  3. Query for your parts according to the table below. In the list, you will also be able to determine which parts to assign and which to ignore.
Part Part Description Assign/Ignore
20–100 Engine Assign
20–140 Cooling System Ignore

 

Note: Once you have done this, the parts disappear from this window.

  1. To view your parts, open the Engineering Revision Transfer Actions window.

Direct Transfer

  1. Open the Engineering Revision Transfer Actions window.
  2. Query for your assigned parts.
  3. Right-click and then click Direct Transfer to transfer the parts.
  4. Specify all levels. 
  5. Click OK.
  6. Verify that the structure has been transferred (except for your ignored part) by opening the Product Structure window and querying for Part 20–100.

Note: By choosing Execute Transfer Online, you avoid the background job.