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ION allows you to keep track of your parts as well as keep track of how and where you use those parts in your manufacturing program.
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ION allows you to keep track of your parts as well as keep track of how and where you use those parts in your manufacturing program.
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Part objects in ION represent abstractions that carry information about a particular part, while the physical parts themselves are . The part objects dictate the MBOM, revision, supplier part number, tracking type and other additional attributes about a part. A part is a unique combination of Part Number and Revision.
A part represents a unique combination of parts and processes that can exist as a standalone product in your inventory. If a part does not make sense to store in inventory or if it can be used as a unit in multiple assemblies, we advise against creating a part number for it and instead recommend capturing that manufacturing state through the use of processes and procedures.
ION is intentionally flexible when it comes to part revisions, given that every customer has a different schema. In order to set your revision schema, navigate to the parts organization settings and set the format of the revision schema.
You can set the schema to allow overflow, which defines whether an error should be raised when the max iteration of a revision scheme is reached, or if it should overflow to the next available value. For example, you can determine if Z is the last revision in an alphabetical revision schema, or if it should overflow to AA.
The default boolean will automatically mark all newly created parts with this revision scheme unless overriden.
If no revision or revision schema is given, then the part defaults to Rev A. If a revision schema is given, then the part defaults to the first value of that revision schema.
When archiving a part, ION will prevent any new inventory of that part from being created. Existing inventory will remain unaffected by archiving a part. This will also remove archived parts from dropdowns (i.e. part selection on a run or purchase order). You may unarchive a part by finding them using this filter on the parts library page.
A revision can be generated from any part, there are no restrictions requiring the revision to be generated from the current latest revision. For example if our part "ion-13" has existing revisions A and B, then a third revision C can be generated from either existing revision A or B. unless explicitly overridden in the mutation input. The new revision will be the next valid alphabetic character from the part's latest revision. If the part's latest revision is C, then the new revision will be D. If the part's latest revision is Z, then the new revision will be AA. Returns the newly created part object with the updated revision.
