Product Structure Viewer for Enovia eMatrix Engineering Central

Enovia eMatrix EngineeringCentral is used to manage Parts, Specifications and Bill of Materials.

• A Part object can be a Component or an assembly. If a part is an assembly, it has a list of components or assemblies


• A specification document is used to describe characteristic of a Part. Typically, a speification document is the following types of document:
  




• 3D Model


• 2D Drawing Print


• Material Property Specification


• Control and Test Specification


• Engineering Application Speification


• PPAP Document


• Customer Approved Specification


• Supplier Approved Specification.


• Other importation documents


• Bill of Material is a list a components or sub-assemblies which are used to assemble a product.

Enovia eMatrix Engineering Central is able to manage Parts, Specifications and Bill of Material very well. Like most other PLM Tools, Enovia eMatrix Engineering Central doesn't offer a tool to access those information at screen.

I have developed a tool which is called Prodocut Structure Viewer. The Product Structure Viewer provide the following features:

• Display Bill of Material, Specifications, files on one page.


• Generate alerts for the followings
  




• When the revision of Part and Specification is not the latest revision.


• When the state of Part and Specification is not released.


• Others business rule related to the specification


• Display the alerts when pointing to the alerts icon.


• Reduce a lots of number of clicks


• Able to tell which parts and specification are changed.

Here is the screenshot of the Product Structure Viewer.

There are lots of other features such as:

• WHERE-USED - When pointing to the Part number of document number, the Product Strucuture Viewer will display where that part is used or where the is document is used. You don't have to open the select part and do a where used report.


• Download files or view files by using autovue. The Product Structure Viewer will display all files checked in the specification object. When pointing to file icon, it will display the file name. When clicking the file icon it will download the file to your local drive or launch the Autovue viewer to view the file online depends on the format of the file.


• Display the Bill of Materials at the same time.

If you want to know how to implemnt this, please feel free to contact with me.