Create Quality Characteristics from parts with product and manufacturing information

To create Quality Characteristics from parts with product and manufacturing information (PMI), you must submit the part to the Import PMIs As Characteristics workflow. This workflow imports the balloons with PMI from this part and creates Quality Characteristics for each balloon. The Quality Characteristics are attached to the part, which allows you to maintain the link between the Quality Characteristics and their source parts. The workflow also ensures that an active Import PMI Rule is available, and it displays an error if there is no active Import PMI Rule.

This workflow imports the balloons and creates the Characteristic Groups and their Quality Characteristics in the Quality Master Data location. This process is done in the asynchronous mode, and a notification is displayed in the Alerts panel when the import is complete. In the Quality Master Data location, when you open the Quality Characteristic and select its Where Used tab, the source part is displayed in the Used in Structures section.

In a Control and Inspection Planning or its operation, when you import the same balloons with PMI from the same part, Control and Inspection Planning generates Inspection Definitions, and attaches the already imported Quality Characteristics to the generated Inspection Definitions. Due to this, the time taken for the import process is reduced.

Note

You can create Quality Characteristics from parts with PMI only if the administrator has enabled this for you.

Procedure

1. Open the part with PMI.

2. Choose More Commands > Manage > Submit to Workflow.

3. In the Submit to Workflow panel:

From the Template list, select the Import PMIs As Characteristics workflow.

Accept the default workflow Name or type your own.

Enter a Description for the new workflow.

Click Submit.

This workflow imports the balloons with PMI from this part, and creates Quality Characteristics for each balloon. If the part is revised, and some of the balloons are added or modified, then you must run the workflow again. When the modified balloons are imported, the existing Quality Characteristics are revised and updated with new values, and then released. For new balloons, new Quality Characteristics are created and released.