Functional groups

You can create functional groups within a roll-up, to organize large product structures that may not be defined in CAD. Functional groups may help you:

• Organize very large product structures for comparison across programs

• Establish the framework for costing dynamic product configurations in very large product structures

• Assign team responsibilities for function costs within a program

Creating functional groups

• You can create functional groups one at a time, or you can import a functional group template, which generates the entire functional group structure in one step. For example, if you want to generate consistent functional group structures within multiple roll-ups, you can use your functional group template for multiple roll-ups.

• Roll-ups can have functional groups applied both through the UI and through the BOM Loader. For more information, see the Digital Factory Administrator Guide.

The template is an XML file which describes the roll-up hierarchy to be created in the parent roll-up. The hierarchy represents your functional groups. You can create a template by using the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet Functional Group Template Generator.xls in the install-support\templates directory of your aPriori installation.