Parent and Component Relationship

A parent and component relationship defines the association between a parent item and the components that you use to produce it. Parent and component relationships are used in engineering change orders to define the proposed item change.

A single-level bill of material consists of a parent item made up of one level of components that include parts, raw materials, and subassemblies.

This graphic illustrates a more complex relationship of a parent item to its components. Part B is both an independent part and part of the subassembly that makes up Part G.