# Project Management

## Introduction

Project management is a basic module for creating and managing projects and project-dependent data. It provides fine structuring and planning of individual projects or subprojects as well as project-relevant data as documents, items, etc. Projects enable the user to structure data in a process-oriented manner into individual subtasks. The projects master record represents the starting point for all project structures. Project management is linked to document management and item management by relation definitions, so that different items and documents can by linked in a project.
For example, the project Computer Manufacturing has those components (items) assigned that are used to manufacture the computer (case, drives, hard disks, etc.). Generally, the drawings of the individual items contained in the project are not assigned directly to the project; they are assigned indirectly using the item management. However, it is possible to create relationships between documents and projects. This is useful in case of documents used in the project which do not belong to an item. In the PC example this could be the operating manual.
Projects as well as items or documents can be assigned to folders. Possible relations between projects, items, documents, and folders are shown in the figure below.
The managed projects are subject to a specified review/release procedure for documentation of status states, releases, and changes. The individual projects can be based on different review releases.