The life of a part can have various stages, such as 'New', 'Under development', 'Work preparation' or 'Released for production'. The Part statuses form allows you to define your own statuses. The use of part statuses is not required.
Use the Update statuses process to change the part status of multiple parts at the same time.
Note: Use the Copy part calculation during synchronization option to configure whether the part calculation of parts in the engineering BOM must be copied to the production calculation during the synchronization of engineering items with a production file. Select the field for all part statuses for which the part calculations may be transferred. You could, for example, only select the status 'Released for production'. If no part statuses have been defined, part calculations are included automatically during synchronization.