Working with an Independent Engineering Workbench

PeopleSoft Engineering provides a workbench where you can create and maintain engineering data without affecting production. This workbench enables you to:

  • Define engineering bills of material (and alternates), routings (and alternates), multiple outputs, and item revisions that incorporate all manufacturing BOM features, including a full range of inquiries, online/background looping verification, prototyping, and multiple configurations.

    You can specify both pending and approved items as components on an engineering BOM. In addition, you can specify component placeholders in cases where the item number isn't yet known. When managing engineering BOMs using ECOs, you can view pending ECO information within EBOM and revision pages.

  • Transfer manufacturing BOMs and routings into the engineering workbench when you need to modify existing manufacturing BOMs or routings.

    Additionally, you can use an existing engineering BOM as the basis for new engineering item BOMs by copying the existing BOM within PeopleSoft Engineering. You can also copy routings from manufacturing or PeopleSoft Engineering. The system maintains a date/time audit trail of BOM and routing movement.

  • Compare engineering BOMs.

    At any point during the development process, you can compare engineering BOMs online with manufacturing BOMs or other engineering BOMs.

  • Perform cost calculations and cost comparisons of changes within engineering BOMs and routings.

    This enables you to analyze the impact of engineering change orders (ECOs) on product costs or to estimate the cost of a new manufactured item.

  • Receive, review, and maintain engineering change requests (ECRs) that you can, optionally, convert to engineering change orders (ECOs).

  • Maintain and route ECOs within workflow so that multiple users can be involved in creating, reviewing, and implementing changes.

  • Make mass changes to manufacturing or engineering BOMs, using engineering mass maintenance.

    Mass maintenance enables you to change, obsolete, and introduce new components to several BOMs, with a single process.

  • Import bills of material from external systems into PeopleSoft Engineering.

  • Create a revision scheme and automatically add revisions to assemblies and components as part of the engineering change process.