How to Manage Parts

A part is the physical entity that is used when a product is assembled.

A part may represent one of a variety of physical entities used in discrete manufacturing; including raw materials, semi-finished parts, assemblies, instruction manuals, kits, etc. The manufacturing industry is characterized by the design, production and sales of parts, and almost every business activity works in some way with data that describes parts. Therefore, a part is not defined by a single object with a set of attributes, but by a collection of objects and relationships, each describing different aspects of the part.

Part States

The Part States represent the state of the part during its lifecycle.

By default, SMARTEAM provides the following part state values:

In SmarTeam - Community Workspace, you can view the part states and perform queries on parts according to their states.