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1. What is the difference between Publish … , Publish To
Default ODS and Publish … To Default
ODS..?
2. What happens if you publish an item Revision
that is already published?
3. Can anybody publish an Item Revision that is
owned by you?
4. Can we add attributes to items / ItemRevs?
5. Can we revise forms?
6. Will forms be carried over to the next revision
of the IRs? where do you control that?
7. To Delete or Not to delete, A discussion
by Yogesh Fegade
·
http://siomsystems.com/to-delete-or-not-to-delete/
8.
Structure Manager (Product Structure Editor)
1) What is the difference between a revision and
version in Teamcenter?
2) What is the difference between Item and Item
revision in Teamcenter?
3) What is the difference between Precise and
Imprecise assemblies in Teamcenter?
4) What is the difference between ‘where used’ and ‘where
referenced’ searches in Teamcenter?
5) What is the difference between Item, Part,
Assembly, BOM, and PSE, item revision, BOM View, BVR?
6) What is the difference between a 'Substitute'
and 'Alternative'?
7) What is the difference between version and
revision?
8) What is an absolute occurrence?
9) What is a Supersedure?
10)What is the difference between an
Absolute occurrence and a relative occurrence?
11)What is a direct model dataset?
12)What is sequence?
13)What is global alternate?
14)What is the diff. between Global Alternate,
Substitute and Configurable Variant?
15)Difference between Revision effectively,
Occurrence Effectivity?
16)What is the advantage of Revision Effectivity?
17)What is the advantage of Incremental changes
over revision/structure Effectivity?
18)When do you prefer using Revision Effectivity
over Occurrence Effectivity?
19)What are modular variants? What’s the difference
between classic and modular variants?
20)What is a Find Number in BOM?
·
http://beyondplm.com/2010/09/24/plm-basics-reference-designator-and-find-numbers/
21)
Teamcenter Workflow
1) What
happens when we publish an item?
2) Who can
publish an item?
3) What are
the workflows you have seen and what they do?
4) Who
receives an e-mail when a workflow is approved by all approvers?
5) Who
receives an e-mail when a workflow is rejected?
6) What is
meant by a hung workflow?
7) What do
you do for making a hung workflow active?
8) What to
do if the emails are not being triggered upon completion of tasks in a workflow?
9) What
happens when we suspend a workflow?
10)What is
promoting and demoting a workflow?
11)How can
you delegate a workflow to some other user?
12)How to
check at what stage the workflow is hung?
13)How do
you deploy changes made to an existing workflow?
14)How to
handle if the current actor / assigned user of the workflow is not available
now and you got to get the workflow get approved immediately?
15)
Teamcenter Change Management
1) What is
the significance of fast track changes and when are they used?
2) What is
the significance of different folders in a Change Item ex. a CN?
3) What is a
Supersedure?
4) What are
BomChange objects?
5) What for
the BomChange objects are used?
6) How can
you control the creation of BOMChange objects?
7)
Access Manager
1)
What is a rule?
2)
What are the ways a rule tree is created?
3)
What are the types of Access Control Lists?
4)
What are the types of Data protection in Teamcenter?
5)
Sub branches always take precedence over parent branches in the
rule tree. Why?
6)
What is primary security mechanism and what is secondary security mechanism?
7)
What is the difference between Project team member and Privileged
team member?
8)
Business Modeler IDE (BMIDE) Teamcenter
1.
How do you convert a Secondary business Object to a primary business
Object?
2.
Where do you create list of values?
3.
What are cascading LOVs?
4.
What are the types of LOVs?
5.
What is a filter LOV?
6.
What is an interdependent LOV?
7.
How do you add a LOV to a property?
8.
What is a compound property?
9.
How do you add naming rules to a property?
10.
What are the constraints we set for creating a GRM rule?
11.
Tell me about deep copy rule.
12.
What are the types of relations between business objects?
13.
What is the default relation between an Item and Item revision?
14.
What is the default relation between an Item revision and a dataset?
15.
What’s the default relation between an Item and a form, can we
change default relations between objects in Teamcenter?
16.
What are extension rules? How do you use them?
17.
How do you attach a naming rule to an Item?
18.
What is cold deployment and hot deployment? What’s the difference?
19.
What are schema changes and non-schema changes?
20.
What happens in the background upon deploying a new BMIDE template?
21.
How do you deploy a custom template using TEM?
22.
What is type collision?
23.
How do you upgrade
templates when Teamcenter is being upgraded to a new release?
24.
Teamcenter Administration
1) Can you name a preference where we can set
multiple values?
2) What is clear locks functionality?
3) What for transient volume is used?
4) How does FSC and FCC work?
5) What’s the difference between 2T and 4T
configurations?
6) What’s the use of FSC Read Write Cache
directories?
7) What the Transient volume root directory is for?
8) Where do you add new volumes if the current
volumes are about to be filled?
9) What’s the
logs location for 2T and 4T?
10) What does backup_xmlinfo utility do?
11) What clear_locks is for?
12) How do you prevent users or external processes
from connecting to TC, during maintenance periods?
13) Where is license server information available?
14) How do you deploy a custom template to the DB?
15) How do you clear user preferences?
16) What are the utilities that we got to run when
there is a Schema change?
17) What do you know about generate_metadata_cache
utility? What is this used for?
18) How do you manually start FCC if it’s not started?
19) How do you resolve if users are not able to
create Datasets in TC after setting up a new site?
20) whether 2Tier is a good configuration or 4Tier ? why ?
Teamcenter Classification
- How do you retrieve already classified item ?
Teamcenter Organizatoin
1) What is the difference between User and Person?
Why do we need to create both for each account?
2) Is DBA role in DBA group same as DBA role in any
group?
3) What happens if we rename a group?
4) What happens if a group has not been
assigned a default volume?
5) What is the difference between a site and hub?
6) What is the difference between a hub and a ODS?
7) What happens if we change site ID?
8) What happens to an existing user id if its not logged in for 2 months ?
9) How do we handle the case of a user rejoining the organization, whose Old ID is still available ?
9) How do we handle the case of a user rejoining the organization, whose Old ID is still available ?
Multisite Collaboration
1) What is the difference between a site and a
facility?
2) What are the best practices with Multisite
collaboration?
3) What happens if we do not specify the target
site while exporting an object?
4) How do we act when the assigned site is
not able to modify the object?
5) What to do if there is
ownership inconsistency?
6) What are the types of synchronization?
7) What is Default synchronization behavior?
8) What are different synchronization methods?
9) Where can we set the
default synchronization?
10) What is bulk data synchronization?
11) Why is bulk data synchronization done?
12) What happens if the master object is deleted
and the replicas are not?
13) Can we transfer ownership to two different
sites?
14) What is referential integrity and how is that
achieved?
15) How do you prevent some sites from viewing /
accessing objects from a specific site?
16) What will be the last modified date of an IR & its associated datasets if its imported with ownership and without ownership ?
What’s new in Teamcenter 9?
A Blog on cloud computing for PLM
An article about benefits of PLM for Aerospace
majors:
PLM and cloud computing
http://www.infosys.com/engineering-services/features-opinions/Documents/social-plm.pdf
PLM - Business Transfermation not just an IT
solution
PLM Vs ERP
Questions on ITK and SOA
Can PLM Handle complex products?
PLM Systems cleared for
Take-off at Airbus
Structure Manager
(Product Structure Editor) overview
http://www-cad.fnal.gov/PLM_World/2006/academic_programs/Teamcenter/TCEN13-Newsam-TcCoreModelStructureMngmt.pdf
PLM investment value gap
emerges for Aerospace and Defense industry
http://www.onlineamd.com/amd0214-PLM-value-survey.aspx
Discussions on latest trends in PLM
This is a video about
Industrial Internet, the next wave we are going to be carried away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBDShp6U7tU