SAP PLM Product Structures support product development, especially for products with many variants and a large number of components.

1. Essential
SAP PLM Tutorial
Product Structure Synchronization (PSS)
Overview and Functionality.
By
Rohan Joshi
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2. Tutorial Goal
 Create Product Family
 Create Product Variant
 Assign Material to Product Variant
 Create Product Item
 Create Product Item Variant
 Create Product View
 Display Product Structure
 Load and Activate Simulation
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3. Definition: Product Structure
 Set of hierarchically ordered objects with the purpose of documenting one
product or a set of similar products
 Product Structures support product development, especially for products
with many variants and a large number of components
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4. Pictorial Representation:
Product Family:
LINUX_SERVER
Product Views:
SERVER_COMPONENTS
Product Items: LX_CASE,
LX_CPU, LX_PWRSUP
Product Item Variants:
30cm, 2.4GHz, 120V and
240V
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5. Product Family:
 The product family defines the top Product Structure has the
level element of the product under following sub views,
development • Description
• General Data
• Components
• Product Variants
• Documents
• Classes
• Characteristic
• Authorizations
• Administrative Data
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6. Create Product Family:
 Click Product Structure ->
Create Product Structure
from the NWBC Menu
 Choose Node Type
“Product Family”
 Enter Node:
LINUX_SERVER
 Enter Class: PSS_DEMO
and click Continue
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7. Product Variant:
 Product Variant is a sub set of product family and describes a product of
this family
 A Product Family has one or more Product Variants associated with it
 Product variants are finished product materials, and they provide a direct
reference to the product
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8. Create Product Variant:
 Open Change
Product Structure
Screen, go to tab
Product Variant
 Enter Product
Variant and
Description
 Click Save
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9. Assign Material To Product Variant:
 Go to Product Variants tab, enter a material in the Material field
 Click Check Entries
 Click Save
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10. Product Item:
 Product item defines the components that are used to build up a product
 Product Item is used to perform the following activities,
• To define the structure of the product you want to document
• object dependencies and components are specified at this level
• To add Product Item Variants
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11. Create Product Item
 Choose Node Type:
Product Item
 Enter Node: LX_CASE
 Enter Class: PSS_DEMO
 Click Continue.
 Go to “Where Used” tab
and enter
LINUX_SERVER under
Node field and SAVE
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12. Create Product Item Variant:
 Open Product
Structure LX_CASE
and switch to Product
Item Variants tab
 Enter 30 in the Variant
field and add
Description
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13. Product View:
 Product Views are independent of Variants and Material Assignments
 Product Views are defined while creating Product Structure with many
elements. Used to structure large products
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14. Create Product View:
 Enter Node Type: Views
 Enter Node:
SERVER_COMPONEN
TS
 Enter Class:
PSS_DEMO
 Click Continue
 Enter Node: LX_CASE
and SAVE.
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15. Product Structure:
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16. Simulation:
 Simulations are used to simulate the explosion of a product structure or a
product assembly for a specific set of configuration parameters
 Simulations take into account object dependencies and effectivity
parameters
 Simulations can be based on,
• Date Effectivity
• Parameter Effectivity
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17. Activate Simulation: Date Effectivity
 Click Edit
Simulation
 Enter Simulation
Name and
Simulation
Description
 Enter Material
 Set Dates and click
Activate Simulation
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18. Conclusion:
 Benefits of using PSS:
• A redundancy-free description of products or product families with many
variants
• An integrated data model for efficient product structure management
• Variant configuration and variant management capabilities
• The option of working with both configurable and configured materials
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19. Contact Information
Please contact us for more information about our services or solutions available.
LeverX, Inc.
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Mountain View, CA 94040 USA
Tel: (650) 625 – 8347
Web Site: www.LeverX.com
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