About the Trial Site

What is a Fusion Manage Site?

A site is a specific instance of Fusion Manage. A site contains all of the items, processes, and people that a company needs to track. It is this instance that your company customizes and configures for their specific needs. The Fusion Manage trial site is configured for basic engineering product management. The site acts as a hub of information related to a product's development, manufacturing, and service information. Access the BOM, keep track of overall progress with the scheduling function, and quickly access attached files.

The trial site consists of four product management categories:

• Product Development
• Change Management
• Supply Chain
• Quality

The Trial Site Workspaces

Each category represents a collection of workspaces. A workspace is a collection of items of the same type, behavior, and properties. Items can be tasks, parts and assemblies, team members, processes, anything that you need to manage. Every object in a workspace is a unique record called an item. The items in a workspace are thematically related. For example, all of the parts and assemblies are in the Items and BOMs workspace . While items are collected in their respective workspaces, they can be linked into other workspaces. Items in one workspace can also be automatically created based on work performed in another workspace. It is this linking and interaction between the workspaces that enables Fusion Manage to manage the dependancies inherent in processes and products.

Product Development

The Product Development workspaces are for tracking the development of a product. They include:

• Products: Track the high-level tasks and milestones necessary for managing a product through its lifecycle. Items created in the Items and BOMs and Tasks workspaces get linked to the Product workspace to create a top-down view of a product.
• Items and BOMs: Create the parts and assemblies that make up a product managed in the Products workspace.

Change Management

The Change Management workspaces are for releasing and managing product changes. They include:

• Change Requests: Initiate changes to a product due to design issues, supplier issues, and so on. A change request does not revision an item, but upon approval, a change request can automatically generate a related change order in the Change Orders workspace that includes the affected items.
• Change Orders: Revise items based on either a change request or an independent action. These changes include revisions and lifecycle updates. Change orders can be automatically generated when a change request has been approved by the team.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain is used to control the addition and removal of key suppliers and supplier part numbers. It includes:

• Suppliers: Manage the creation and state of key suppliers as they relate to purchased items.

Quality

The Quality workspaces are used to record quality issues and track corrective measures. They include:

• Non Conformance: Capture quality issues at the item, product, or supplier levels and link the issues to the respective objects.
• Corrective/Preventative Actions: Perform detailed CAPA analysis based on non-conformance, problem reports, or other activities to prevent future issues.
• Return Merchandise Authorization: Track any RMA issuance against key metrics such as supplier, customer, or product record and connect with other processes such as CAPA or change management for further action.