Part Revision Control

d-catalano

We are in the process of establishing a new part numbering scheme and revision system, and I'm fishing for some advice and/or examples of what other companies do.

Here are a few questions:
1. When a part is revised with revision control, is there anything that forces a drawing change?

2. What is the functionality of the "Drawing #", "Drawing Revision", and "Drawing File" fields in the Config Mgt tab of Part Maintenance? Are those controlled by anything (such as ECN), or are they changed by the user as desired?

3. If a part is revised and the drawing is changed, is there any link to the previous revisions of drawings? For example, say that last year I built a work order with material at rev A. The material has since been revved up to B. The customer calls for a replacement part, we open the associated work order and see that it was built using Rev A, but the linked drawing is to Rev B. Is there any way to maintain links to drawings of previous revs so that we can provide the customer with an identical replacement part? Would it be better to use Document Reference?

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Legacy Contributor

We are in the same boat, we want to get document and revision control well controlled. There is quite a bit of information in the User Guide for Visual 7.0. I do know that the "Drawing File" will not print with the WO, but Document Reference can be printed--I tried it.