Graphical Product Synchronization
The Graphical Product Synchronization program (PF30L703) enables you to design product synchronizations, as well as feeder, rework, and option paths, individually.
The Graphical Product Synchronization uses the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Adobe Viewer for displaying the graphics that are associated with the product synchronization. The program automatically detects the SVG Viewer if it is already installed for the browser. If the SVG Viewer is not installed for the browser, the system displays a link that you can use to install the SVG Viewer from the Adobe website.
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/).See Adobe SVG Viewer Download Area, http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html.
You access the graphical functionality of this tool by clicking any of the buttons at the top of the graphical interface. These buttons are available depending on where you are on the product synchronization and based on the rules that are defined for the different path types. When you start to create a product synchronization, the only option that is available to you is to insert a process. When revising an existing product synchronization, you must select the process that you want to attach a path to and then select an available option based on the rules. For example, if you select a rework path, the button for attaching an option path is disabled because you cannot attach an option path to a rework path. The graphical product synchronization enables you to perform the following actions:
Insert and remove a process.
Edit a process.
Attach a feeder path.
Attach a rework path.
Attach an option path.
Remove a path.
View path and process properties.
When you click any of the buttons for inserting processes or attaching paths, the system displays forms that list the processes or paths that are available for adding to the product synchronization. Because you have already defined default yield, rework, and scrap percentages for processes, the system prompts you to edit or accept these values when you add a process to the product synchronization. When you add a rework path, the system prompts you to enter the following values:
Rework percent.
Number of rework loops.
The system provides a method to control the display of the graphical product synchronization. As the structure becomes more complex, paths may overlay each other, making it more difficult to differentiate them from adjacent paths. To make a given path or process more visible, you can selectively dim the display of surrounding product synchronization paths and processes. You have the following options to control the display of the graphical product synchronization:
Dim Mode: Dim a selected path and its child paths.
Un-Dim Mode: Undim a selected dimmed path, as well as its child and parent paths.
Dim All: Dim all paths except the main paths.
Un-Dim All: Undim all dimmed paths.
If you navigate out of the graphical product synchronization to another form, using a form interconnect, for example, to add paths or to switch to the tabular view, the system preserves the dim state of all paths. When you return to the graphical product synchronization, all the paths that were dimmed before are still dimmed. If you leave the Manage Product Synchronizations form, the dim settings that you specified are lost.
You do have the option to save the dim settings that you specified before closing the application. When you save the dim settings for a product synchronization, the program saves the selected product synchronization with the dim settings for each component to the Graphical Product Synch Properties table (FF30L705).
When you return to the application and retrieve a graphical product synchronization that you previously saved with specific dim settings, the system retrieves these settings from the table and displays them as they were when you saved them in the previous session.
The program also offers a tabular view of product synchronization. You can use this view to create or revise a product synchronization as well. In the tabular view, the system indicates for each process that you have included in a path whether a feeder, option, or rework path is attached. When you attempt to attach a feeder, rework, or option path where the rules do not permit you to do so, the system issues an error message.