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SAP PLM Product Structures support product development, especially for products with many variants and a large number of components.
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Essential SAP PLM Tutorial
Product Structure Synchronization (PSS)
Overview and Functionality.By
Rohan JoshiCopyrighted 2013 by LeverX, Inc.2nd January 2013
Tutorial Goal Create Product Family Create Product Variant Assign Material to Product Variant Create Product Item Create Product Item Variant Create Product View Display Product Structure Load and Activate Simulation
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Definition: Product Structure
Set of hierarchically ordered objects with the purpose of documenting one product or a set of similar products
Product Structures support product development, especially for products with many variants and a large number of components
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Pictorial Representation:
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Product Family: LINUX_SERVER
Product Views: SERVER_COMPONENTS
Product Items: LX_CASE, LX_CPU, LX_PWRSUP
Product Item Variants: 30cm, 2.4GHz, 120V and 240V
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Product Family:
The product family defines the top level element of the product under development
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Product Structure has the following sub views,• Description
• General Data• Components• Product Variants• Documents• Classes• Characteristic• Authorizations• Administrative Data
Create Product Family:
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Click Product Structure -> Create Product Structure from the NWBC Menu
Choose Node Type “Product Family”
Enter Node: LINUX_SERVER
Enter Class: PSS_DEMO and click Continue
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Product Variant:
Product Variant is a sub set of product family and describes a product of this family
A Product Family has one or more Product Variants associated with it
Product variants are finished product materials, and they provide a direct reference to the product
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Create Product Variant:
Open Change Product Structure Screen, go to tab Product Variant
Enter Product Variant and Description
Click Save
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Assign Material To Product Variant:
Go to Product Variants tab, enter a material in the Material field
Click Check Entries
Click Save
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Product Item:
Product item defines the components that are used to build up a product
Product Item is used to perform the following activities,
• To define the structure of the product you want to document
• object dependencies and components are specified at this level
• To add Product Item Variants
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Create Product Item Choose Node Type:
Product Item
Enter Node: LX_CASE
Enter Class: PSS_DEMO
Click Continue.
Go to “Where Used” tab and enter LINUX_SERVER under Node field and SAVE
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Create Product Item Variant:
Open Product Structure LX_CASE and switch to Product Item Variants tab
Enter 30 in the Variant field and add Description
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Product View:
Product Views are independent of Variants and Material Assignments
Product Views are defined while creating Product Structure with many elements. Used to structure large products
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Create Product View: Enter Node Type: Views
Enter Node: SERVER_COMPONENTS
Enter Class: PSS_DEMO
Click Continue
Enter Node: LX_CASE and SAVE.
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Product Structure:
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Simulation:
Simulations are used to simulate the explosion of a product structure or a product assembly for a specific set of configuration parameters
Simulations take into account object dependencies and effectivity parameters
Simulations can be based on,
• Date Effectivity
• Parameter Effectivity
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Activate Simulation: Date Effectivity
Click Edit Simulation
Enter Simulation Name and Simulation Description
Enter Material
Set Dates and click Activate Simulation
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Conclusion:
Benefits of using PSS:
• A redundancy-free description of products or product families with many variants
• An integrated data model for efficient product structure management
• Variant configuration and variant management capabilities
• The option of working with both configurable and configured materials
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