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The ECR Status indicates how much of the processing has taken place on the ECR. In Assembly Planner, an ECR may have any of the following statuses:

•Pending, which means the ECR has been received into the system, but has not yet been assigned to an engineer for processing.

•Assigned, which means the ECR has been assigned to an engineer for processing. The ECRs are assigned to engineers by either the Assembly Planner administrator or the MCO Coordinator.

•Error, which means the ECR has been received into the system, but some data is missing. See the section below for more information on possible causes of failure.

•Closed, which means the Engineering Change Order (ECO) corresponding to the ECR has arrived.

Causes of ECR Failure ('Error' status)

Any of the following issues will cause the ECR to display an 'Error' status.

1.Missing Data: If any mandatory field in the ECR are missing, the ECR will fail. In the item master, the mandatory field is the ID. In the BOM file, these fields are ID, Parent ID, and Component Find Number.

2.Revision Mismatch: If the revision of a component in the ECR is lower than the current revision in Assembly Planner, the ECR will fail.

3.Missing Item: If the BOM file of the ECR has components which do not appear in the item master, the ECR will fail.

Any ECR with an 'Error' status will remain in that status unless either the ECR is corrected by the engineering system and re-imported into Assembly Planner or the corresponding ECO arrives.