How do you all use effective dates? Ideally, we (Engineering) would like to just advise dispositioning of the material (scrap, rework, runout etc…) for the new revision and let Purchasing/Planning manage it from there - or, at the very least, set the date and walk away. Also, from what I’ve seen it does not look like it controls much past the default rev that shows up at Job Entry - and one can still select the future rev from the dropdown. Thoughts?
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Most of the companies that I have worked at don’t ever use it. My opinion is that it is really for companies that need to control their production.
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I agree… but it does create issues. If you only have (1) approved revision of a part, you should be fine. But if you have multiple approved revisions, then the effective date of those revisions come into play… and some areas throw fits if the effective dates are not in sync.
For example, you can’t have a sub-assembly with an effective date after the effective date of the parent.
This makes sense… how can you make a parent part with an effective date of 1/1/2020… if the subcomponent wasn’t effective until 5/1/2024.
So, just be aware that they can come back to haunt you later. If you ever see funny things going on, evaluate the effective dates of the part revisions.
The top level part’s effective date must be more recent than any of its subcomponents.
This comes into play in Engineering Workbench. If memory serves, when building a MOM in Engineering Workbench, you can’t choose the revision of a subcomponent. The system will use the most recent (approved) revision of the subpart by default, and the box is greyed out… you can’t change it.
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It would either be accounting or engineering.