PDXpert PLM Software
On-line Help Guide
This help topic describes the current PDXpert PLM release. Earlier releases may be different. To view your release's version of this topic, open PDXpert and press the F1 key or select the Help menu.
How to work with parts
Part records identify a physical item installed or consumed in the construction of a product.
A part always has at least oneiterationand, as your design changes, many more may be added:
- Zero or onependingiteration.
- Zero or onereleasediteration.
- Zero or morecancelediterations.
Make the new part by
In both of these, you'll permanently identify the part by its type, owning organization, and number.
The part record opens with its first pending iteration. Each record iteration can reflect the part's name, revision, and lifecycle phase, such as Preliminary orProduction.
Some attributes are associated with the item, and shared across all revisions of the item.
General information includes thePart name and data on the Attributes,Custom, and Notes pages.
TheItem Files list has background files and external links for history, manufacturing records, websites and other information that's not managed by revision.
If you track the chemical substances that affect environmental compliance, add data to theMaterials list.
Revision-level data is related to a specific iteration, and changes are tracked using anexecuting change form.
You may add relationships between the part and other items. You establish these relationships by dragging items from the Item Explorer's Search or Recent lists, and dropping them onto the correct markup list
Add to the BOM page Markup list parts that are used or consumed to produce theparent part.
Add to the Sources page Markup list parts from supply chain partners.
Add to the References page Markup list specifications, assembly and test instructions, drawings and other documents. You can also add parts, such as tooling or fixtures, that are related to the part's construction.
Design files describe how to fabricate, assemble or prepare the part. Add these to theRevision Files list.
Add an informal reminder to the Tasks list to prepare the iteration for release.
After you add new information, save your part.
When you've completed adding information, the pending part record is released by (1) adding it to anexecuting change formAffected list and (2) routing, approving, and releasing the change form.
Until you submit the change form for approval, the part record remains pending and can be changed in whatever way that you want.
After the change form is approved and released, the part record is released, and the final child relationships are shown on the BOM, Sources and References Current lists.
Many of the released part record's attributes are locked and can never be modified;
Some attributes can be modified by the item trustee and members of the product team; and
Some part attributes (such as the BOM) can be modified only by making a new pending iteration of the part record.
See the Release your part help topic.
Revise a released part record by making a new iteration.
On the new iteration, you can markup the BOM, Sources and References lists. You can also add, edit and remove revision files.
The new iteration remains pending until you release it on an executing change form. At that time, you'll also cancel the preceding iteration by adding it to the same change.
See the Revise a released part help topic.
When a released part is obsolete and no new iterations are needed, it's canceled without a new iteration.
Cancel a released iteration by adding it to a new executing change form's Affectedlist, and releasing that change form.
Do not create a new iteration. BOM parts, source parts, references and files stay on a canceled part, so no changes are needed.
To show that a part is no longer useful, you can choose to cancel the released iteration, or to release a new iteration with lifecycle of (say) Obsolete. A lifecycle change can show the part is obsolete, but doesn't block its use. Canceling is better. Canceling the part makes sure that:
All pending and released parent items are revised to remove the part before it's canceled.
After the part is canceled, it can't be accidentally added to a markup list.
Users can't open the canceled part unless they have the correct role permissions.
The part can be used again by releasing a new iteration, even with the same revision and lifecycle.
See the Cancel a released part help topic.
You can remove (delete) a pending part iteration from the database if it's not used by another document, part or change form.
See the Remove your part help topic.
View and share part information using:
- Context menu printed reports
- PDX package export file
- Custom views in the DataGrid
- Report/Export Wizard custom export files and reports
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