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Detailing ECR

It is the Responsible Design Engineer’s Task to do the detailing of the Engineering Change Request ECR. In the course of the detailing he has to specify which Wire Harnesses or Drawings are affected by the change described in the ECR.

Detailing the ECR can consist of the following Steps: (The links below will help you to navigate through this document)

• Edit the ECR impact • Add new Parts / Materials • Add a New Wire Harness • Connect Obsolete Wire Harness • Connect Revised Wire Harness • Wire Harness List • Connect Obsolete Drawings • Connect Revised Drawings • Add Supporting Documents • Complete Task • Final Reject ECR

ECR /ECO Manuals Matrix 10.5 of 40 Pages Created: Ralf Virnich April 27.2005

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Edit ECR Impact

To edit the ECR Impact click on ECR Impact, open the Actions Tab click on Edit ECR Impact.

In the ECR Impact Folder you will find later on the evaluation Results from Manufacturing and Logistic. The Design Engineer can enter here Engineering Cost.

A webform opens allowing you to enter Engineering Cost and to select a Currency.

Once you entered Engineering Cost and Currency click on Done


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Here you see a completely filled out example

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Add new Parts / Materials

When the change described in the ECR would result in the implementation of New Parts or Materials they would have to be entered here. You should enter here all parts that you currently have on your New Parts List

To add New Parts / Materials Information click on NEW Parts / Materials open the Actions Tab and click on Add New Parts / Materials

A webform like this opens. Again the red fields are mandatory the black fields are “can” fields. The fields you cannot edit are reserved for the Advanced Purchasing input. Start with the selection of a Part Type, then enter Part Family, Part Name and select the Customer from the pull-down menu. Continue with the Supplier Name and the Supplier Part Number. Tick the box Customer Appointed Supplier in case Advanced Purchasing is not allowed to choose a Supplier of their choice


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Continue the input entering the Yazaki Part Number if you know it. If you feel some more explanations are required you can add this in the field Description. Associated Parts in case of e.g. a connector can be something like front holder, rear holder or connector-cover. Then you have to enter the Estimated Annual Volume and finally select a Unit of Measure. Now click on Create.

Here you see a completely filled out example.


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Once you clicked on Create your screen will be updated like shown. You can either click on the Part Type or the Symbol to review what is behind this

Clicking on Connector you can see the so called Meta Data for the example.

In case you have to change it again you can open again the Actions tab and click on Edit Details.

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back to detailing overview Add a New Wire Harness

All the Input you made so far is recorded in the History.

If the Implementation of the ECR would result in the introduction of a New Wire Harness you would have to enter this here.


To add a New Wire Harness click on NEW Wire Harness open the Actions Tab and click on Create New Wire Harness

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Here you see a completely filled out example for a New Wire Harness. When you are finished with the input click on Create.

A webform like this opens. Again the red fields are mandatory the black fields are “can” fields. Enter Customer Part Number, select a Part Family from the pull-down menu and enter a Part Name. You can continue with a Description, the Number of Circuits and the PSW required by Date. Then enter a Weight and select a Responsible Design Engineer.

Your screen will be updated like shown. Click on the Customer Part Number to see the Meta Data and the structure behind the new Wire Harness.


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Her you see an example for the meta data. If you need to change it open the Actions tab and click on Edit Details.

Each and every input that has been made so far you will find in the History.

Under Related ECRs you find the information about which ECR is containing this particular Part. In case of a New Wire Harness it is of course only the ECR which we are currently working on.


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back to detailing overview Connect an Obsolete Wire Harness

If you made a mistake or have to delete the New Wire Harness again tick the box next to the Customer Part Number, open the Actions tab and select Delete Wire Harness


If the Implementation of the ECR would mean that a Wire Harness is no longer required, in other words it becomes obsolete, you would have to enter this here.

It might be that the introduction of a change described in an ECR means that a harness is not longer required; it becomes obsolete. In this case you have to connect it to your ECR. Click on Obsolete Wire Harness, open the Actions tab and click on Add Existing WH Part.

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A Search window pops up allowing you to specify in more detail what you are looking for. Keep in mind that the results list is limited to 100 as default. You can change this just clicking into the Limit field and entering a different number.


Here I selected “ABS Sensor” as Part Family. To execute the search clickon Find.

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Her you see a typical Search result. Tick the boxes next to the part numbers you want to make obsolete and click on Submit

Now the 3 Wire Harness Parts are connected as Obsolete Wire Harnesses to the ECR

If you click on one of the Customer Part Numbers you can see the meta data and the structure behind each part.


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Each and every input thathas been made so far you will find in the History.

When you click on Revision List you can see the different revision of the Obsolete Wire Harness. The latest version is always on the

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Under Related ECOs you will find the ECO that has been used to release the selected Part. You will always find only one Number there.

If you decide that you have to delete one part from the list of connected Wire Harnesses tick the box next to the Customer Part Number open the Actions tab and click on Remove selected WH Part.

When you now confirm with OK you have disconnected the WH Part from this ECR.



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Connect a Revised Wire Harness

If the Implementation of the ECR would mean that a Wire Harness is has to be revised you would have to enter this here.

To revise a Wire Harness click on Revised Wire Harness open the Actions tab and click on Add Existing WH Part

A Search window pops up allowing you to specify in more detail what you are looking for. Keep in mind that the results list is limited to 100 as default. You can change this just clicking into the Limit field and entering a different number.


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Here I selected “ABS Sensor” as Part Family. To execute the search clickFind.
Here you see a typical Search result. Tick the boxes next to thepart numbers you want to make obsolete and click on Submit
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If you click on one of the Customer Part Numbers you can see the structure of each Revised Wire Harness and the so called meta data

Each Revised Wire Harness Part does have its History where you can find every input recorded.

Each Revised Wire Harness does have its Revision List. The shown example has not been revised yet.


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Under Related ECRs you can see which other ECR does contain the Revised Wire Harness. Here you can see that the example part is connected already to 4 different ECRs.

Under Related ECOs you will find the ECO that has been used to release the selected Part. You will always find only one Number there.

If you decide that you have to delete one part from the list of connected Wire Harnesses tick the box next to the Customer Part Number open the Actions tab and click on Remove selected WH Part.

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Confirm with OK

And the selected Wire Harness has been removed from the list of Revised Wire Harnesses



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Edit Wire Harness List

In the Wire Harness List you will find the Revised Wire Harnesses and the New Wire Harnesses listed. The Design Engineer can enter here the Take Rate of these Harnesses. Later on you can find here the evaluation result from the costing department


To enter the Take Rates of the New and Revised Wire Harnesses you have to clickon Wire Harness List, open the Actions tab and click on Edit Wire Harness List

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A webform opens allowing you to enter Estimated Take Ratesin %.

nter the figures for the stimated Take Rates nd click on Submit

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The webform closes automatically and the background updates to the shown view

back to detailing overview Connect Obsolete Drawings

If the Implementation of the ECR would mean that a Wire Harness is no longer required, in other words it becomes obsolete, and the corresponding drawing should be made obsolete as well you would have to enter this here.

To add Drawings that would have to be made obsolete click on Obsolete Drawings, open the Actions tab and click on Add existing Wire Harness Drawing.


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Here you see a typical Searchresult. Tick the boxes next to drawing numbers you want toobsolete and click on Submit


A Search window pops up allowing you to specify in more detail what you are looking for. Keep in mind that the resultslist is limited to 100 as default. You can change this just clicking into the Limit field and entering a different number.

Specify your Search and click on Find.

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The search window closes automatically and the background is updated to a view similar to this.

If you click on one of the Drawing Numbers you can see the meta data and the structure behind each Wire Harness Drawing.

Every Drawing does have its own History where you find any actions related to the drawing recorded


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Under Attachments you should find the Wire Harness Drawing you want to make obsolete. The shown example does not show a drawing as this is from the first upload into ematrix. This first upload is only done with meta data.

Under Revision List you can find all released versions of a Wire Harness Drawing.

If you made a mistake and connected for instance a drawing that should not be made obsolete tick the box next to the Drawing Number, open the Actions tab and click on Remove selected Drawing


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The background updates to the shown view

Confirm clicking OK


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Connect Revised Drawings


If the Implementation of the ECR would mean that an existing Wire Harness has to be revised then thecorresponding drawing should be revised as well and mention the Revised Drawing in this folder.

To add Drawings that would have to be revised click on Revised Drawings, open the Actions tab and click on Add existing Drawing.

A Search window pops up allowing you to specifyin more detail what you are looking for. Keep in mind that the results list is limited to 100 as default. You can change this just clicking into the Limit field and entering a different number.

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Specify your Search and click on Find

Here you see a typical Search result. Tick the boxes next to the drawing numbers you want to make obsolete and click on Submit

The Search window closes, the background is updated and shows the Revised WH Drawings


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If you click on one of the Drawing Numbers you can see the meta data and the structure behind each Wire Harness Drawing.


Every Drawing does have its own History where you find anyactions related to the drawing recorded

Under Attachments you find the released Version of the Wire Harness Drawing you want to revise. To download the drawing either click on the File Name or the Download Symbol.

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Under Revision List you can find all released versions of a Wire Harness Drawing.

If you made a mistake and connected for instance a drawing that should not be revised tick the box next to the Drawing Number, open the Actions tab and click on Remove selected Drawing

Confirm with OK


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The background updates to the shown view.

back to detailing overview Add Supporting Documents

If the change that you want to describe requires more explanation e.g. it requires a sketch showing it you need to attach a Supporting Document. To do this click on

in the structure on the left.


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Open the Actions Tab and click on

The system haa subfolder thasupporting docClick either onproceed.


A new webform opens. You have to select the Type of supporting document from the pull-down menu and to enter a Description. Then you click on

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Here you see that the supporting document sketch does have its own History.

To proceed click on Attachments, open the Actions Tab select what you want to do. In most of the cases to Upload External File.

The new version of ematrix allows also to upload more than one supporting document at once. To select this option just click on Upload Multiple Files


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The Ckeckin webform for uploading multiple files looks like shown. The principles of uploading are the same like for single files.

A new Webform opens. Clicking on you can select a document you want to attach. Once you have selected one click

on .


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The background is updated and you attached the Supporting Document.

back to detailing overview Complete Task

When you finished the detailing of the ECR you have to complete your task to promote the ECR to the next lifecycle step. As long as you are still in the ECR just click on Related Task and then click on the task Name

Your view will be updated and displays your Task


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If you are not in the ECR anymore you have to find your task a different way. Log in to ematrix. Open the pull-down menu, open the Central and select .

Your View will be updated similar to this screen. Be carefull that you really select the task you want to work on. To access the Task you can either click on the Task Name or on the Symbol .

Now you are in the task


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Click on and then on if you want to ensure that this is really the correct ECR you are working in

Now you can check the ECR again

At the end you go back to your task open the

Actions tab and click on Complete.


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You have completed your task.


When you look up the Lifecycleyou can see that the ECR has reached its next lifecycle status Submit

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ing up the Related Tasks folder you that a new task has been generated. selected ECR Pre-Issue Engineering roval (Manager) has to check the ECR then to complete his task

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Final Reject ECR


It might be the case that for whatever reason you have to reject the ECR. To do this you have to be in the Lifecycle of the ECR.

There you can open the Actions tab and click on Final Reject

An Approval window opens

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Whenever you reject something in the ematrixdatabase please fill in a rejection comment.

Add a Comment! Now you have to approve the Rejection. Tick the box and

then click on .

Now you have to verify the Rejection with your password. It is the same password that you use to login to ematrix

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The background updates automatically and the lifecycle has changed to Rejected. The ECR cannot be used anymore but the information that has been entered remains in the database.
