Inclusion of hierarchy, Manufacturing Assemblies and Manufacturing Kits in Manufacturing Context

Manufacturing Assemblies and Manufacturing Kits are included in the computed manufacturing context. The Context Solver batch utility also includes the children hierarchy of the linked products, resources, MA’s and MK’s in the computed manufacturing context.
You can compute the Manufacturing Context and Planning Context through DLMMfgContextSolver program.

Context Solver batch Utility

Relations Supported by Context Solver batch Utility for Ma's/MK's

The children of MA’s and MK’s should be products and resources linked using the following relations:

  1. Kit contains Kit
  2. Kit contains Product
  3.  Kit contains Resource 
  4. Assembly references Product

Rules to Include/Exclude Child Products and Resources in the Manufacturing Context

The rules for evaluating the assembly status on the children products and resources for inclusion/exclusion in the Manufacturing context are specified below:

  1. If the child product/resource is not directly linked to any predecessor processes (untouched assembly status) and only its parent is linked, then it inherits its immediate parent's (product/resource) computed assembly status (integrated, removed, or undefined).
    For Example: SA is integrated
    •  P1, P2, P3 and SA 2 are also integrated - inherit the state from SA.
    • P8 and P9 are also integrated - inherit the state from SA 2.
  1. If the child product/resource is directly linked to any predecessor processes, then it retains its computed assembly status (integrated, removed, or undefined).
    For Example: SA is integrated, P2 and P9 are removed
    • P2 and P9 are removed - retain their computed assembly state.
    • P1, P3, and SA 2 are integrated - inherit the state from SA.
    • P8 is integrated – inherits the state from SA 2.
  2.  For MA's and MK's, any child product/resource which is not within the root product/root resource scope is also considered in the manufacturing context computation.
  3. For MA's and MK's, any child product/resource which is not within the root product/root resource scope and is also not directly linked to any predecessor processes (untouched assembly status), inherit its parent MA's or parent MK's computed assembly status (integrated, removed, or undefined).
  4.  For MA's and MK's, any child product/resource which is within the root product/root resource scope and is also not directly linked to any predecessor processes (untouched assembly status), inherit its immediate parent's (product/resource) computed assembly status (integrated, removed, or undefined).
  5. For MA's and MK's, any child product/resource directly linked to any predecessor processes, retains its computed assembly status (integrated, removed, or undefined).
    For Example: MA is integrated, P2, and MA 2 are removed.

    • P4 and P5 (which are not within the root product scope) are also integrated - inherit the state from MA.

    • P2 is removed – retain its computed assembly state.

Limitation

Computation with hierarchy is applicable only to Manufacturing Context and not for Volumetric Context.