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'Flexible' routings/ Workcenter

  • 9 June 2022
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Hi,

 

We want to implement capacity planning for our assembly and testing areas. But we cannot define the best approach.

 

We can set each possible routing as an alternate, however the possibilties are endless. In a simplified version, let’s say we have an Assembly area which consists of 4 places where we can work on our shop order. It doesn’t matter which of the 4 are used, they are 100% identical. Same principle for our testing area: there we have 2 places, identical.

But if we define each possibility with a routing, it will be impossible to keep track. Lets say we have 4 operations in our shop order (in reality it will be more): Operation 10 in an assembly area (4 possibilities), operation 20 in a testing area (2 possible), operation 30 in assembly area (4 possible), operation 40 in a testing area (2 possible). For this simplified shop order, you will allready have 4*2*4*2 = 64 different alternates. So that will not work.

 

How can we still plan according to capacity? Can we set our assembly area at 400% for example?

 

Thanks for the insights!

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Best answer by Björn Hultgren 9 June 2022, 15:59

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If you have 4 identical assembly areas I would suggest you create one Work Center “Assembly” with 4 Resources “Assembly Area 1”, “Assembly Area 2” etc. The capacity of this work center will be 4 times the capacity if you have only one resource.

Since you only connect the work center to the routing operation, the system will assign the least loaded resource to schedule an operation on, but you can manually select another resource on the shop order operation if required (or simply choose to start the operation on another resource in Shop Floor Workbench, which will reschedule the operation to this resource.

 

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