Material Specification Management 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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Material Classes
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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Material Attributes
Material attributes define the important features and characteristics of a material. Material attributes, as defined here, represent stable characteristics of a product that typically do not change on a-unit by-unit, lot-by-lot, or batch-by-batch basis. Material attributes differ from material specifications, in this definition, because specifications are typically characteristics that are measured on actual materials to determine actual values as compared to targets after production or procurement.
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Material 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 Material Definitions
Creating, copying, deleting, and otherwise managing material definitions.
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Core PLM for Process Industries Features and Functions
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