Plan the structure management deployment and administration

Learn how to plan the deployment and administration of Structure Manager. Discover the essential applications needed, such as BMIDE and Dispatcher, along with optional ones like Change Manager and Lifecycle Visualization.

The Teamcenter BOM Management suite of products helps users to manage product structures.

Before you begin

Ensure that your Teamcenter setup has the following applications:

Application	Why it is needed
Business Modeler IDE (BMIDE)	To configure Teamcenter for structure management.
Dispatcher	To run various user tasks on the background.
(Optional) Change Manager	To perform structure management tasks in the context of a change.
Lifecycle Visualization	To visualize products and to perform digital mock-ups on rich client.
Visualization Extension application	To visualize products and to perform digital mock-ups on Active Workspace.

Apart from these Teamcenter applications, you may need a CAD application, such as NX or CATIA, to manage the designs, and may need to integrate the application with Teamcenter.

Choose the required BOM products

First set up Teamcenter for structure management. Next, based on your business requirements, you can include other applications in your Teamcenter set up for additional structure management features. Each of these applications need different licenses. Ensure that the correct licenses are obtained and installed. Next, deploy and administer these products so that the business users can perform structure-related tasks in Teamcenter.

Where do I go from here?

Business User

• Manage structures on Active Workspace: See Structure Management on Active Workspace.
• Manage product structures on the rich client: See Structure Management on the rich client.
• Organize BOM content within partitions: See Partition Management on Active Workspace.

Administrator

• Set up Teamcenter for structure management: Install Teamcenter applications required for structure management and perform the tasks to administer structures so that users can manage structures.

• Index structures for faster search: Index structures by using one of the following methods:

  • Smart Discovery Indexing
  • Active Content Structure Indexing

  Warning: The Active Content Structure indexing feature is soon going to be deprecated. You must index structure using this indexing only for massive model visualization. Else, it is recommended that you now start indexing structures by using Smart Discovery Indexing.

  • Cacheless Search

• Configure structure search: Explore the search options and choose which ones to configure for your users.

• Index structures for advanced filtering and configuration capabilities: Set up and administer Smart Discovery for Structures.

• Deploy and administer Partitions for structures: Install and administer Partitions for Structures so that users can view a structure from different aspects without creating separate structures.

• Deploy and administer Product Configurator: Set up Product Configurator so that users can manage the product variability independent of structures.

• Control the behavior and appearances of Teamcenter for structures: Use preferences to control the various aspects of Teamcenter to suit the requirements at your site. For information about retrieving a list of preferences, see Where can I get a list of preferences?