The "raison d'être" of a PLM is to be able to monitor the product life cycle. Here you will find out about:
The different types of product (items, tools, configurable products, variants, etc.)
How to track product definition (CAD and applicable drawings, BOM, etc.)
How to monitor industrialisation (production ranges, associated tools, production reports, etc.)
Tracking your products on Aletiq will enable you to streamline product design and development processes (ECO/ECR).
A brief overview of the interface
To access your products, you can click on Articles or Tools in the menu at the top of the application. This will take you to a page showing all the products to which you have access. Here you can navigate between views, filter documents or carry out a search.
When you open a product area, the menu on the left allows you to navigate between the different pages for the product in question, such as:
Documents associated with products
Parts associated with an item
Current workflows for this product
Product definition
Manufacturing routings
Configuration options
Digital passports for manufactured instances of this product
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Objects linked to products
In your product area, you'll find all your product-related projects (documents, parts, workflows, tooling, etc.). The different views allow you to display, filter and sort these objects.
On the other hand, from the parts and workflows document details pane, you can simply find the list of associated products to help you analyse the impact of any changes.
Product definition
Product definition is the page that brings together everything to do with product definition: CAD, BOM and definition documents.
The product definition is indexed, which means that if you make a change to the definition, you need to create a new definition index for the product. In addition, each object in the definition is published in an applicable revision. In other words, each document, component or CAD in the definition is published in a given revision in a product definition index.
Schematic diagram of product configuration :
Manufacturing ranges
The range lists the documents and tools applicable to the manufacture of the product. In the same way as the product definition, the manufacturing range is indexed and includes the revisions of the documents and tooling that make it up.
The range is divided into manufacturing operations and is often automatically retrieved from the ERP system.
It is possible to have several manufacturing ranges that evolve in parallel, such as:
a main range
a relief range
a subcontracting range
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Digital passports for manufactured products
The passports section contains the list of serial numbers / production orders / serials for manufactured products. Automatically retrieving passport management from the ERP in the PLM allows you to, among other things:
associate a manufacturing range definition index with each passport
archive inspection and manufacturing reports in PLM
reconstruct bills of material at serial number level to track the installed base of products