About Manufacturing Features

Manufacturing features define how a product is to be manufactured. Manufacturing features can also have subfeatures, which can be any feature type (configuration, logical, manufacturing, or none).

Related Topics
About Features
Creating a Manufacturing Feature
Manufacturing Features Page under a Model
Manufacturing Features Page under Logical Structures

Manufacturing features and logical features are part of the logical product structure in a product hierarchy. While each logical feature can belong to either the logical structure or the manufacturing structure of a product, a manufacturing feature can only belong to the manufacturing structure.



Manufacturing Feature Policy Definition

The Manufacturing Feature policy governs the manufacturing feature type and all of its subtypes. Manufacturing features can be in any of the following states:

  • Preliminary—This state defines the initial condition for a manufacturing feature object. Users with a Product Manager or System Engineer role are most likely to define the manufacturing feature composition while it is in this state.
  • Review—Manufacturing features are promoted to this state upon initial composition definition. You can deploy route-controlled review mechanisms to track the completeness of the definition and use the change control process to release the manufacturing feature. The Responsible Design Organization (RDO) governs all role definitions in this state, and role definitions have RDO filters in their policy.
  • Release—Manufacturing features are promoted to this state using the change control behavior of the Engineering Change object. You cannot manually promote or demote from this state, which is considered a frozen state for the manufacturing feature. It is not possible to make any change to the composition of a manufacturing feature when it is in this state; however, it is still possible to define a GBOM. The manufacturing feature is not governed by the RDO when it is in this state.
  • Obsolete—Manufacturing features are promoted to this state using the change control behavior of the Engineering Change object. You cannot manually promote or demote from this state, which is considered a frozen state for the manufacturing feature. It is also not possible to make any change to the composition of a manufacturing feature when it is in this state. The manufacturing feature is not governed by the RDO when it is in this state.