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Context : PC Builder 

 

“Feature” == a Bill-of-Material item in your ERP for the computer system that is being tested. A “Feature” may or may not have multiple “Components” that contain actual asset data that is being used in PC Builder.

 

PC Builder is independent of your ERP system and has no knowledge of how your Bill-of-Materials are structured in your ERP system. Therefore, for each of the relevant Bill-Of-Materials items, a structure corresponding to that item must be defined in pcbStudio application. 

 

PC Builder can detect active electronic parts that declare themselves to be part of a computer system, most of the computer parts 

  • It can't detect parts that are passive or disabled, and it can't detect components that don't declare themselves to the computer system. 

  • Not all items in ERP system are active electronics parts that declare themselves to the computer system. 

  • An active electronics part installed in a computer system might be a composite part that combines multiple functionality together. At the time when this document was prepared, almost all computer parts are composite computer parts, rather than a single function computer parts. 

  • An active electronics part installed in a computer system might be a part of a composite part that combines multiple functionality together. 
  • At the time when this document was prepared, almost all computer parts are composite computer parts, rather than a single function computer parts. For example, 
  • a graphics card has both video and integrated audio parts,
  • a CPU has amd integrated graphics card which in turn has an integrated audio part,
  • a motherboard has numerous integrated active parts like network cards, USB controllers, storage controllers, fan controllers, in addition, some motherboard parts come with add-on cards like Wi-Fi, RGB controllers and so on. all these distinct active electronics part are embedded and sold as a single package, corresponding to a single Bill-of-Materilas item in ERP system
 
The relationship between Components and Features is as follows. In the Components list, the Component Type is the top level in a tree type arrangement. Features exist inside the Component Types, while parts exist inside features. Features can contain more than one Component. The name of the Feature is listed on the Bill of Materials. The PC Builder process will attempt to match on one of the Components listed in the Feature. In other words, a Feature listed in your Bill of Materials represents a single Component. The Feature/ Component architecture exists to accommodate the business needs of manufacturers to fulfil orders with a single Feature number that can represent multiple different physical components. It provides an ‘OR’ function to parts handling by matching one of the Components in the Feature to the physical component. So although a Feature can contain more than one part, it represents one discrete Component to the PC Builder process. 
  

 

 

 

Keywords: PC Builder, Feature, Component, Script, Asset Data,Asset Check

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