This component allows you to collect all data for an entire product lifecycle in a single integrated model. It is particularly suitable for highly variable products. You can use IPPE to document data and then reuse and update it from the very first stages of a product's research and development process. You can represent a complete production model because Integrated Product and Process Engineering (IPPE) allows you to hold master data for bills of materials, routes, and line designs in a single model. It is especially suitable for repetitive production.
You store the data within a functional structure that represents the entire product lifecycle, which you then populate with more data in later stages of product development.
There is an interface for connecting time analysis products to IPPE routing (process structure). You can define processing times and transfer these times to Integrated Product and Process Engineering (IPPE).