Change Impact Report

This report identifies the impact of design changes made to all (or a selection) of child designs in a parent design, or all designs from a build list, in a single XLSX report file.

The report is based on the consolidated reports (Consolidated Harness Component BOM Report or Consolidated Harness Wire / Multicore) you configure in the Change Impact Reports Wizard Dialog Box.

This video gives an overview of the report.

For each design, the process creates a “Before” and “After” snapshot of the consolidated report, and then creates the “delta” Change Impact Report which highlights all added, removed, and changed components.

The process matches designs having the same Part Number.

Figure 306: BOM Change Impact Report Example

Figure 307: Wire Change Impact Report Example

Report Attributes

You can configure the report to include all the attributes as described in the Consolidated Harness Component BOM Report and Consolidated Wire Multicore Report.

In addition, this report includes:

• Quantity / Length Before

• Quantity / Length After

• Quantity / Length Difference

• Weighted Quantity / Length Before

• Weighted Quantity / Length After

• Weighted Quantity / Length Difference

• Change Type Added Rows are green. These components have been added by the design change.

Changed Rows are orange. Changed values are in red text. These components are different after the design change. For example a quantity or an attribute value has changed.

Unchanged Rows are not colored. These components remain the same after the design change.

Deleted Rows are red. These components have been removed by the design change.

Weighted Quantity

Weighted quantity columns are calculated based on the Design Take Rate. This allows you make a distinction about the scale of the impact of a change. For example, a change to the quantity of a connector that is in a design that has a take rate of 1%, as opposed to a connector that is in a design that has a take rate of 90%.

Weighted Quantity or Length = Quantity or Length * Take Rate

• If a Take Rate is not set on a design, the process assumes 0%.

• Weighted quantity “Before” is calculated based on the design Take Rate before the change.

• Weighted quantity “After” is calculated based on the design Take Rate after the change.

Parent Topic:

Consolidated Reports

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