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ECC Change ECO status

This program is the heart of the ECC workflow system and performs all events and status changes for engineering change orders.

Add Where Used

This screen is displayed when you add a change order action.

Field Description
Exclude parent parts which do not have affected items in its current structure?  
Yes

Select to only include items that are affected in their current structure. The parent items are only included if the component exists on the structure for its current revision/release.

This means that only ECC parent parts which have the ECC components in the current structure of the parent are included as affected items. Current means the latest BOM Structure of the parent part where the revision and release of the parent are equal to the Inventory master revision and release.

No Select this to process the structures for ALL Revisions and Releases for all affected parent parts. (i.e. all items which have the components defined against any structure are included).

This means that if one of the affected items you added is only included in a structure that applied to a non-current revision/release, then the parent is still included in the list - the parent part is added with its current revision and release.

New Revision/Release

This screen is displayed when you select the Apply BOM Changes function from the ECC Change Orders program.

Field Description
Automatic Revision/Release Numbering  
Increment Rev Select this to increment the Revision level for the item.

This option only applies if your revision Numbering method is set to Automatic (Set Key Information).
Increment Rel Select this to increment the release level for the item.

This only applies if your release Numbering method is set to Automatic (Set Key Information).

If you selected the option: Increment release within revision and you go back a revision, the release is incremented from the last release within the revision. If you did not select this option, then the release numbering starts at zero again.
Increment Rev of all affected items Select this to increment the revision level for all items on the change order.
Stock code This indicates the code of the stock item for which you are setting the revision/release level.
Description This indicates the description defined against the stock code.
New rev Indicate the new revision level for the item.

This only applies if your revision Numbering method is set to Manual (Set Key Information).

You can only decrement this value when the Allow non-sequential entries option is enabled (Set Key Information) otherwise the new revision level must be higher than the current revision level.

When you decrement the revision level, a warning message is displayed, enabling you to confirm that you want to proceed.

Current Rev This indicates the current revision level of the item.
New Rel Indicate the new release level for the item.

You can only access this field if your Release numbering is set to Manual (Set Key Information).

You can only decrement this value when the Allow non-sequential entries option is enabled (Set Key Information) otherwise the new release level must be higher than the current release level.

When you decrement the release level, a warning message is displayed, enabling you to confirm that you want to proceed.

Current Rel This indicates the current release level of the item.
Archive options These options are only enabled when the Structure and routing archiving option is set to - Immediate-prompted (Bill of Materials Setup).
Archive old Rel/Rel Select this to archive the bill of material for the previous revision/release of the item.

If you choose not to archive the bill of material at this stage, then you can still archive the bill of material manually using the Structure and Routing Archive program.

Apply to all affected items Select this to archive all affected items on the bill of materials.
Apply revision/release options

This only applies when capturing a new revision and/or release and Manual numbering is required for revisions and/or releases (Set Key Information).

Option Description
Apply all options to all affected items

Enable this to apply the revision/release to all affected items when you are prompted for a revision/release before apply the BOM changes.

The following apply when this option is enabled:

  • If you have already captured a manual revision or release for subsequent affected items when the affected items were added to the ECO, then these are used and the manual revision or release entered at the point of asking for a revision or release before applying the BOM changes are not used for the subsequent affected items.

  • If Revision numbering is Automatic and you select to increment the revision, then the revision is incremented for all affected items. The Increment Rev of all affected items option is enabled and cannot be disabled.

  • If Release numbering is Automatic and you select to increment the release, then the release is incremented for all affected items. The Increment Rel of all affected items option is enabled and cannot be disabled.

  • If the Archiving option is set to Immediate-prompted (Bill of Materials Setup) then the archiving old option is applied to all affected items and the Apply to all affected items archiving option is enabled and cannot be disabled.

OK Select this to accept your changes.

For functions which affect the structure and routing, a tick over screen is displayed indicating that processing is occurring for the affected items against the ECO.

When the option Allow cosmetic changes for ECO is set to System automatically controls (Bill of Materials Setup):

  • The check for major changes are performed on components of a component sub assembly when the component sub assembly is an affected item.

    If a component was added as an affected item which is against a component sub assembly affected item and does not have a structure and routing, then this is deemed a major change and is rolled up to the parent affected item.

  • A major component sub assembly change is only applied to the parent affected item when the component revision and release are current on the parent or when the BOM setup option Roll-up ECO changes to update parent is enabled (Bill of Materials Setup):

  • If no major changes are found against a component sub assembly and when the component sub assembly is processed the revision and release are updated, then this is not recognised by the higher level parent affected items and the prompt to keep the revision and release of a product unchanged is displayed at the parent levels.

    The same process of checking for major changes apply when tracking release.

You are prompted to change the Revision/Release when the Allow cosmetic changes for ECO option is set to Manual control by operator (Bill of Materials Setup).

The Revision/release is updated for all changes when the Allow cosmetic changes for ECO option is set to No (Bill of Materials Setup).

Hints and tips

Record amendments

  • You can generate a report of ECC status changes to stock items if you enable the Amendment journals required option (Inventory Setup).

  • A job amendment journal is created when you set a job on hold for an ECC controlled item which is being processed in an open ECO, when the Capture job amendment journals option is enabled (Work in Progress Setup).

Notes and warnings

Program access

  • This program is called from ECC Change Order Actions when events are actioned by users, or from ECC Change Orders when non-action type events are fired.

ECC deplete oldest

  • When an ECC controlled parent is being maintained in an open ECO and an ECC controlled component is added or changed to use the ECC consumption method Deplete oldest, and the Override planned rev/rel in spec issue is selected, then this information is copied to the BOM Structure table when the ECO is completed.