Introduction to Product Lifecycle in Viindoo¶
The Product Lifecycle app of Viindoo Manufacturing Software helps your business by managing, storing data, and making reports about:
- Product Lifecycle: the versions of the Bill of Materials (components, operations) for manufacturing.
- Engineering Change Orders: creating, approving, confirming, or canceling the Engineering Change Orders (ECOs).
Install the Product Lifecycle app¶
From the main view of Viindoo, navigate to Viindoo App and type PLM into the search bar. The result of this search is the Product Lifecycle app.
Click on Install to install the app.
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User access rights for the Product Lifecycle app¶
To set up the user access rights for Product Lifecycle app, navigate to
. Select the employee account, press Edit to configure the app access rights.At PLM field you can choose one of the choices below to set the different access rights for the user:
- Leave blank:If this field is blank, the user is unable neither to find the Product Lifecycle app on the main view nor to search for the app on the search bar.
- User:Has the right to create and adjust the ECO before starting new revision. In case the user has been authorized as the Administrator in the Manufacturing app, he can start revision and update BOM.
- Manager:The manager has all the access rights of a user and could also manage the ECO types, ECO stages, ECO tags and checks reports.