Hi Everyone,
Recently we have started to use Alternate Methods to catalogue alternate routing/operations for parts. In one instance we make parts new which require material to be ordered and certain operations to be completed. In another scenario we receive these same parts and need to rework them. Therefore no material is required and a different set of operations need to be completed. Alternate Methods work great for this.
All these parts are catalogued under one Top Level Assembly and when setting up a Job we can simply select ASM 0 and click ‘Get Details’, select the Alternate Method and make sure the ‘Use Alternate Method for Subassemblies’ checkbox is checked and everything comes through perfectly like it was setup in the Method Master in Engineering Workbench.
However, the issue we are having is there may be a scenario where a number of parts need to be added to the Job AFTER it has been released (enough that they cannot be done manually as it will be too time consuming). I was hoping that they could be CadLinked onto the Method Master, have Alternate Methods added and then the same ‘Get Details’ for ASM 0 would be selected and everything would come through as it had before.
Once there are Parts/Operations under ASM 0 however the ‘Get Details’ selection prompts an ‘Append Details’ and when the same steps are taken (selecting the Alternate Method and checking the Use Alternate Method for Subassemblies checkbox) it appears that only updates to ASM 0 are pulled to the Job.
This is not what I was hoping to see as we tend to go at least 3 levels deep for our Subassemblies, ASM 0 acting as the ‘Grandparent’, then we have ‘Parent’ subassemblies, and ‘Child’ subassemblies. We are specifically looking for an efficient way to add more Child subassemblies to a Job that has already been released with their Alternate Routing.
If anyone is familiar with this issue, if there is a setting that needs to be toggled as it appears to me that this could be some type of security measure built in to Epicor. Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated.
For reference we are running off of Epicor 10.5.100