Reference designators

Define positions in the mBOM that are useful for installation traceability

Overview

• Define reference designators in the mBOM

• Install inventory into reference designator positions in the aBOM

  • aBOMs will fan out to represent the number of reference designators

Example

In the assembly below, there are 8 lidar, 8 radar, and 3 camera sub components.

To define positions for the camera click the Add button in the Reference Designators column as show below:

When the aBOM is generated, the reference designator will appear above the inventory selector for the camera items. Inventory can now be installed into specific positions. Note that 1 aBOM item was created for each reference designator.

Reference designators are also reflected in the trace view:

Rules/Validations

• You can not define more reference designators in the mBOM than quantity

• When creating aBOM items for reference designators, each aBOM item is created for quantity 1