Change Management for Manufacturing Process Planning (MPP)
Hello all, I am currently investigation best-practices for Change Management (CM) related to manufacturing process plans (MPP). There is a lot of information available on CM of Parts and (CAD) Documents, but not so much about updating the related Process Plans. I am wondering if anyone is willing to share their opinion and recommendations for revising Process Plans. Do you manage MPP changes separately or is it part of your MBOM configuration? What initiates an MPP change? Engineering Change > Manufacturing Change > Process Plan Change? Document > Process Plan Step > Process Plan Change? Any other? What Aras ItemType do you use as change container (ECN, ECO, ECR, etc.)? I hope we can have an open discussion to learn more from each other! Best regards, Daan
Impact Matrix - it´s time for a change! Ideas for alternative renderings/concepts for easier change management
Hi community, I am right now work on yet another custom CM process. It´s a typical process that affects multiple itemtypes, so my first plan was to do a custom version of the exiting Impact Matrix as seen in the Express ECO. I have built heavy custom versions of the Impact Matrix a couple of times and I am familiar with the concept. But I am tired of doing it. It´s a working concept, yes, but from my POV there is still a lot of room for improving the way end users do their changes. So instead of spending time for customizing the impact matrix again, I want to try to rebuild or at least to improve the concept on a general level. Of course I don´t want to reinvent the wheel from the scratch. I want to preserve the existing data structure based on Affected Items. But I want to provide additional way to display/render/work with the data. Some ideas: (some of them I already use in the current Impact Matrix, so these are not just an illusory wish list) - Make look&feel more flexible and intuitive - Work with data with less clicking - Improve Impact Matrix analysis for very large BOMs and complex structures - Comparing of previous and new data - Enable/disable upward/downward impact. - More flexible change planning option so the change does not change items on runtime (fundamental problem) - Rollback option - Provide alternative renderings of the existing data. Impact Matrix is basically just a viewer/input helper window for the Affected Items. It should by possible to render the data in various ways. Instead of resolving a repeating structure, sometimes a grouping the data would help users to not get lost in the matrix. I know that Aras partners offer custom CM processes. But they often only sell a few "easy-to-do" improvements and don´t address the hard stuff. I also don´t want to buy a dll based closed concept that is neither upgradable nor customizable. Does anyone want to join the project or can share ideas? Can you recommend concepts from other PLM software vendors that we can use as inspiration? What feature do you miss in Aras Change management? Any input welcomed! Angela
Track the fields/properties in Aras like History Container
Hello Experts, Is there any way in the Aras to check which property is modified while updating the Item? I have part item and while updating, i wanted to check which properties are modified likewise it is given in History page. E.g I have the properties in the Part as Name, Item Number, Description, Classification etc. User tried to update the Name and Description so i wanted to know that only these two properties are changed. If i enable the track history for these 2 properties then i can see the modified properties details in the History page. I want this information of properties on item type server events like, OnBeforeUpdate, OnAfterUpdate etc.
How to show more properties in Part - Changes tab
Hi, How can I show more properties (columns) in the Part - Changes tab.?? Example: ECO/MCO... creation date I have tried modifying C:\Program Files (x86)\Aras\Innovator\Innovator\Client\Solutions\PLM\xml\ChangesGrid.xml and if I modify (add a header) in C:\Program Files (x86)\Aras\Innovator\Innovator\Client\Solutions\PLM\scripts\Changes\Changes.html the new column becomes visible on the part changes tab, but all changes are gone/ not visible If I remove the added header = my changes are visible again. Anyone knows how to fix this? Regards//MikaelAras12 add a new Change relationship tab
Hi, I just downloaded Aras12 and see that the part changes tab now relates to a Tree grid view and Query definition. Has anybody with Aras12 tested to create a new change tab and add correct relations? In Aras 12 "PE_Changes" query definition, they have been able to add Simple ECO's etc, but I can't figure out how. I cant see how they did that, due these references are not available as choices when trying to add them to my new query definition Regards//MikaelWhat´s the best way to track Manfacturer Part Changes in a Simple MCO in a more detailed way?
Hi Community, maybe somebody is also interested in this use case. We use the Simple MCO to change Manfacturer Parts of released Parts outside the regular Part lifecycle. One typical use case is the exchange of an Manfacturer Part. For example the Part has a Manufacturer Part with PN "391443". The Simple MCO can be used to exchange this one easily with a new Manufacturer Part with PN "124391". But right now the standard Simple MCO doesn´t offer a OOTB way to track the Manfacturer Part change itself. If users don´t describe the change in the Simple MCO Form manually, it´s not possible to track what have changed. The affected Part itself will only show the latest Manufacturer Part, but the Simple MCO doesn´t help us to find the previous one. The Simple MCO will just indicate that a change happend, but it doesn´t force user to explicity describe the changes made to the AML. Another Pitfall: The AML changes performed with the AML Editor in the Simple MCO are immediately visible in the Part. If user make an mistake and forget about the previous Part (because they didn´t mentioned it in the MCO Form description and the review needs two week), it´s hard to revert the AML without a lot of research. I would prefer, if we could use an customized AML Editor for planning and documentation of the change. The change shall apply when the Simple MCO is released, but not in real-time while using the MCO. Well, that are my current ideas. Does anybody face a simliar requirement or has some additional ideas how to improve the Simple MCO? Thanks for any ideas! Angela
