My Top 7 Tips & Tricks for Variants

Here are my top 7 Tips & Tricks for variants in APIS®:

1. Product Characteristics with tolerances instead of functions
2. Don’t write tolerances into failures
3. Part number and position on drawing as user defined Attribute
4. Part number into item code instead of the name
5. Process Flow Chart: Part number as user defined attribute
6. Display Option: Variant specific value icon in all relevant editors
7. One FMEA Form Sheet for all variants