What's new in Easy Plan 2.7

With Easy Plan 2.7, workspaces and components are combined into a single solution to streamline installation and maintenance. For example, you can install or update the Work Instructions Authoring workspace and Teamcenter Manufacturing Access component with one installation, instead of two separate installation procedures.

Note:

In this release, Production Process Planning became two separate workspaces: Central Assembly Planning, which is used to create generic plans and define product assembly; and Production Process Planning, which is used to define product assembly at the plant level.

Easy Plan 2.7 installation

These items apply to the entire Easy Plan solution:

  • Easy Plan 2.7 is supported on Teamcenter 11.4 and higher, and Active Workspace 4.1, including patches.

  • You can now use the Deployment Center to install or update Easy Plan.

  • You can install Easy Plan on the Teamcenter Environment Manager (TEM) with a single *.war file, easyplan.war, instead of using a separate *.war file to install each application.

Teamcenter Manufacturing Access installation

  • Teamcenter Manufacturing Access is supported on NX 12.0.2 or later.

  • Teamcenter Manufacturing Access is supported on Process Simulate 14.1.x or later.

Production Process Planning configuration

  • Planners can use a predetermined list of values to define operator capacity.

    See Process resource preferences for details.

  • Planners can define the operation type for operation-persistent types, including subtypes. The type can be None, Human, or Machine.

    Note:

    See Operation preferences for details.

  • End users can edit object properties on the BOM line or item revision level.

    Note:

    To enable this feature, your environment must be running Active Workspace version 4.1.1 or later, and you must install Easy Plan Active Workspace Infrastructure with the TEM.

  • By default, planners can clone an alternative work package to create a new work package. You no longer need to set the EP_Enable_Cloning_Of_Alternative preference to enable this capability.

Production Process Planning known problems and workarounds

There is a bug in Teamcenter 11.4 that causes a problem working with activities in Production Process Planning. As a workaround, set the Attachment_window_clean_up_disable preference to false. This is fixed in Teamcenter 11.5.

Teamcenter Manufacturing Access known problems and workarounds

You must install a hot fix to use Teamcenter Manufacturing Access with Process Simulate version 14.1.x and above. Locate and download the hot fix from GTAC.

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Process Simulate version 15.1.x and above do not require the hot fix to run Teamcenter Manufacturing Access.