Item Management and Classification Features and Functions
Material management is a primary building block of PDM. Material management is where information on raw materials, intermediates and sub-assemblies, and finished goods is stored. Materials represent discrete items, bulk materials such as liquids and gasses, packaging, and packaged items (among others). Materials represent the physical materials themselves, and are associated with products which are the commercial representation of the material that is to be bought or sold.
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Item Classes/Attributes
Material classes define common groupings or types of materials that have common characteristics. The material class defines what information or attributes are appropriate for the definition of the material. For example, common material classes might be packaging, raw material, purchased component, subassembly or may be more detailed such as diode, flavoring, stabilizer, or chassis. Definition of material classes makes the definition and maintenance of materials easier by associating the appropriate attributes with a material based on what is appropriate for that type of material.
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Item Definition
Material definition is the primary source of information for a given material. It holds the basic information about a material and serves as the identifier with which all advance material information will be associated.
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Managing Items
Creating, copying, deleting, and otherwise managing material definitions.
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Core PLM for Discrete Industries Features and Functions
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