Performing impact analysis with configured parents

When evaluating the impact of a change to a target part, an engineer requires the appropriate revision of the part to determine impacted assemblies. This revision may be in a working state but the impact analysis should be conducted with the appropriate revision rule qualification. By inspection and study, it may be possible to find the correct occurrence but this method may be challenging for a complex configuration. Multiple revisions may configure a specified target part and it is critical that subsequent changes should be made from the correct revision. When evaluating the impact of a change, the engineer needs to know the release status of impacted assemblies to understand their maturity and also what business process is necessary to execute subsequent activity. Starting from a target revision or item, the engineer specifies a revision rule in the Impact Analysis pane. Teamcenter selects the appropriate revision of the target revision for that item for the specified revision rule.

Note This method of impact analysis is only available in the Impact Analysis pane and not in the Referencers pane. By default, Teamcenter does not take evaluate configured parent assemblies when impact analysis is performed. You can optionally evaluate the parent item's configured revision if you click the Show Configured Parent and Child Options link and then select the Configure Parent and Child check box on the Impact Analysis pane. If the check box is selected, the parent item revision and the child item revision must be configurable by the same revision rule. This method of analysis is similar to the one available in Teamcenter Enterprise.

Note When you select the Configured Parent and Child check box, Structure Manager shows an Auto-selected Child Node check box. If this second check box is selected, Teamcenter automatically selects the applicable child when you do a where used search.

Note The where-used/referenced report does not support configured parent and child options.