ISO 10303-44:1994 Historical

This part of ISO 10303 specifies the resources to manage the structure and configuration of a product during its life cycle.

The following are within the scope of this part of ISO 10303:

• the relationship among the components and assemblies of a product;
• the relationship among products and their components as made by modification of other products;

EXAMPLE 1 - The machining of a product from another product.

• the description of a product as defined by customer needs;
• the management of the structure for configuration of assemblies and components as planned for manufacture;
• the decomposition of a product to support different product life cycle activities;
• multiple versions of a single product which are equivalent with respect to form, fit, and function. The following are outside the scope of this part of ISO 10303: - the relationships among different product definitions for the same product;

EXAMPLE 2 - The relationship of a product definition for a component in a preliminary design to a corresponding product definition for the same component in a detailed design;

• administrative activities of the product life cycle including approvals, security classifications, contractual arrangements, and supplier organizations;
• the change process for a product, including the reason for change and what aspect of a product has changed;
• the decisions made, and their reasons, during the product life cycle;
• the physical connections among components of a product;
• the properties that a product constituent may have;
• the information for as-built manufacturing, manufacturing planning, and logistical structure and configurations;
• multiple versions of a single product that are not form, fit, and function equivalent.