Part Life Cycle

Each Part has a Life Cycle associated with it. The following figure shows the default Life Cycle Map of a Part. A newly created Part is assigned the Preliminary state by default. It can be released manually or via a change process. Refer to the Manual Promotion and Revise section for the details on manual release. The Product Engineering application provides change management processes, which are used to release Parts after appropriate reviews and approvals. During the change processes, a Part goes through different life cycle states depending on the step in the workflow. For more details, refer to section Change Management.

Figure 34.

The current State of a Part can be viewed in the following places:

• The State column of the Parts Search Grid.

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• The State read-only property box of the Part form.

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• The Life Cycle dialog, where the current State is highlighted.

Figure 37.
To access the Life Cycle dialog for a Part:

1. Open the Part
2. On the Part toolbar, click Navigate -> Life Cycle.