Re: FEATURES AND OPTIONS

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Lloyd,

We use both Features and Options and Mainstay's Configurator product at
our facility.  Mainstay's Configurator does the same thing as F&O, except
that it offers more "intelligence" in limiting what options are available.
 It also goes multiple levels down, if you want.  You can also be creative
with it on the orders that are produced.  I have found it to be an
excellent addition to our systems.  Features and Options works well, also,
but we have had to be careful with the 20 limit.

Dale @ Fleetwood





Pete <mainstay@mail.paonline.com>
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     Lloyd


        Don't have a detailed recollection of setting up features and
options, I just remember it was a bear to deal with.    If you're
interested, my company sells a Mapics integrated Configurator that can
replace the feature / option approach to specifying products.  It's not as
complex or expensive as KBC and can interface back as far as Mapics/DB-3.

        If you're interested, you can email back or call me at the number
below.  Thanks.


      Pete Sultatos
      MAINSTAY Application Systems, Inc.
      (717) 292-9939








At 10:09 AM 11/19/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>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*****

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