FEATURES AND OPTIONS

[LDEGNON@xxxxxxxxx]

We are a designer and Manufacturer of Embedded Computers.

Our Bills of Materials are quite detailed, our products can be configured in
many different ways, and as such, we would like to implement Features and
Options.

All of our documentation references setting up the S-Number Template for the PDM
tailoring Questionnaire, but we are using PDM+, and there is no tailoring
Questionnaire for this that I can find!

Also, what are the rules for adding Features and options to a BOM?  When I
attempt to do this in the TEST environment, I get any manner of errors stating
such things as "Feature/Option conflicts with Parent item type" etc.  The only
time that I am successful is when I add something to a bill and call it a
"Phantom"?

As an example, here is a common scenario that we would like to attempt to tackle
using Features and Options.  (Bear in mind that this is our take on how this
should work, if we ever get that far)

8350884F    (LB3-P5V-Q-01)      *****PARENT ITEM*****


    FEATURE     RAMINSTALL  (INSTALLED RAM)

        OPTIONS     8553654A  (32mb)
                    8553664A  (64mb)
                    8553674A  (128mb)
                    8553684A  (256mb)
                    8553694A  (512mb)

    FEATURE     CMPCTFLSHINST  (INSTALLED COMPACT FLASH)

        OPTIONS     8552644A  (8MB)
                    8552654A  (16MB)
                    8552734A  (32MB)
                    8552814A  (64MB)
                    8553264A  (128MB)

    FEATURE     ETT (EXTENDED TEMP TEST)

        OPTIONS     9950054C (-40 TO +85)

    FEATURE     CCOAT (CONFORMAL COAT)

        OPTIONS     9950074A  (LITTLEBOARD CCOAT)
                    9950104A  (RAM CCOAT)


Lloyd H. Degnon
I. S. Manager
Ampro Computers Inc.
5215 Hellyer Ave
San Jose, CA 95138
408.360.4365
Ldegnon@ampro.com
http://www.ampro.com