Maintaining Objects in the Engineering Workbench 
Use
The product structure the following objects or relationships are assigned values that are maintained in the Engineering Workbench:
|
Materials |
Routing |
|
Bill of material (BOM) |
Reference operation set |
|
Item |
Inspection plan |
When an object or a relationship is maintained in the Engineering Workbench you can start the maintenance directly from the product structure.
Prerequisites
Under the Settings for the product structure the New display version is activated.
The maintenance possibilities using the Engineering Workbench are displayed in the following ways:
- The object relationship is indicates by the icon
in the display column Workbench.
- The entry Workbench is in the context menu of the object or relationship.
Starting the Engineering Workbench using the Context Menu
- Select the icon of the object such as
material) or relationship such as 
item. - Depress the right –hand mouse button to call up the context menu.
The entry Workbench is in the context menu of the object when it can be maintained using the Engineering Workbench.
- Select the entry Workbench.
Starting the Engineering Workbench using the Icon 
- Select the icon of the object such as
material) or relationship such as 
item. - Change the display variants so that the display column shows Workbench.
- Highlight the column Workbench.
- Press the left-hand mouse button and pull the column to the desired position.
- Click on
to start the Workbench.
Result
- The
Work area dialog box appears if you have not set up a work area.
- Enter a work area that can be used to display or process the object types (for example, BOM processing).
- Choose Continue.
- Depending on the object or relationship where you started the Workbench, you will end in one of these overviews:
EWB: Overview Inspection characteristics
You can use all active Engineering Workbench functions.
After you have changed and saved your data you can return to the product structure.