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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Engineering data management summary</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>Engineering items</Level1>
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		<Keyword><Level1>EDM summary</Level1>
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	<GeneralSection><Paragraph>You can use the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/edm" role="module">Engineering Data Management</GUIRef> module in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti" role="package">Manufacturing</GUIRef> to support the registration of a product's design process, dealing with different versions of products. In addition, this module is used to transfer the design data to production.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>An overview of the functionality of the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/edm" role="module">Engineering Data Management</GUIRef> module is provided here. For further details, refer to the more detailed topics listed at the end of this topic, or the online Help for the appropriate session.</Paragraph>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Engineering items</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph><Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#EngineItem.ti" role="glossary">Engineering items</Link> are items to which you make design changes. If the design process is finished, you can transfer the changes to actual items. An E-item can exist as several <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#Revision.ti" role="glossary">revisions</Link>. Each revision is an improved version of the item.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph>You can attach drawings to E-item revisions with the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/dm/doc" role="module">Document Management</GUIRef> module of <GUIRef href="/baanerp/dm" role="package">Data Management</GUIRef>.</Paragraph>
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		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Engineering bills of material</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>An engineering bill of material (EBOM) describes the relationships of components to their parent items the same way as a <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#BillOfMateri.ti" role="glossary">production bill of material (PBOM)</Link>. The main difference between an EBOM and a PBOM is that EBOMs use different <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#Revision.ti" role="glossary">revisions</Link> of E-items, rather than having a <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#SequenNumber.ti" role="glossary">sequence number</Link> to account for items that are valid on different dates. Record the components of E-items in an EBOM with the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/edm/tiedm1110m000" role="session">Engineering BOM (tiedm1110m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph>You can use unit effectivity to model various product configurations of the E-item. For more information on unit effectivity, refer to <Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000311" role="manual">Unit effectivity in EDM</Link>.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph>You can use reference designators in the EBOM to indicate where a component must be mounted on the main item. For more information, refer to <Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000381" role="manual">Procedure for linking reference designators in the EBOM</Link>.</Paragraph>
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		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Changing the EBOM</SectionTitle>
			<List><ListItemHead>Manual changes</ListItemHead>
				<ListItem>You manually create or change an EBOM for a specific engineering item revision. After approving the revision, the EBOM can be copied to to a PBOM. The effective date of the revision is linked to the PBOM lines. The expiry date equals the effective date of the next revision. For more information, refer to <Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000107" role="manual">To change EBOMs - Manual procedure</Link>.</ListItem>
				<ListItemHead>Automatic changes</ListItemHead>
				<ListItem>You use <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#000326" role="glossary">MBCs</Link> to simultaneously perform multiple modifications of engineering data. For an MBC, you can define several actions to add, delete, and replace components in a series of EBOMs. If you have correctly defined your MBCs, you can process several of them together in the <Link href="/baanerp/ti/edm/tiedm3250m000" role="session">Process MBC (tiedm3250m000)</Link> session. For more information, refer to <Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000118" role="manual">To change EBOMs - Automatic procedure</Link>.</ListItem>
				<ListItemHead>Semi-automatic changes</ListItemHead>
				<ListItem>You manually create or change an EBOM, after which you use an MBC to approve the changes. For more information, refer to <Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000121" role="manual">To change EBOMs - Semi-automatic procedure</Link>.</ListItem>
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		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Unit effectivity in EDM</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>Unit effectivity can be used to model variations in the design of E-items. You can transfer the unit-effective data to the production environment so the variations are modelled in the production environment.</Paragraph>
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	<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000114" role="manual">Engineering items</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000117" role="manual">Engineering BOMs</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000107" role="manual">To change EBOMs - Manual procedure</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000118" role="manual">To change EBOMs - Automatic procedure</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000121" role="manual">To change EBOMs - Semi-automatic procedure</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000115" role="manual">Copying E-items to items</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000116" role="manual">Finalizing engineering data</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000311" role="manual">Unit effectivity in EDM</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000381" role="manual">Procedure for linking reference designators in the EBOM</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000119" role="manual">Import CAD application data with the BAAN Exchange module (BAAN Utilities)</Link>
		</RelTopic>
	</RelatedTopics>
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