There are more than one occasions that I have come across that our users define one physical machine in 2 sites expecting to plan shop order operations seamlessly. But this set up sometime leads to very confusing consequences. Example : Company : A Site : X Site : Y Expensive CNC machine is installed in Site X ( defined as a manufacturing work center in Site X as "CNC-X"). But this usually runs under capacity ( lets assume that both sites runs on 8 hr calendar). So The company decides that they can put some shop orders registers in Site Y to be done in the under utilized work center in Site X. Therefore it is decided to define the work center in site Y as " CNC-Y" in IFS. Now lets assume that the manufacturing planner has access to both site X and site Y shop order operations. If you run CRP, since in IFS , CNC is 2 distinct work centers, the capacity available is 8 hr each. Which is not really the case. For both sites , the available hours are 8 in total per day. In such setup p
Hi,In DOP structures there may be many shop orders connected through structure relationships. If the machine shop resources are finite, upon creating a finite schedule for the shop orders, the relationship between respective parent DOP orders has to be respected also. APB is capable of doing it. The planners are able to schedule DOP header ( demand header) , forward , backward, drag-n-drop or insert : where in any case, the operation relationships, DOP order relationships( structure relationships) and the resource constraints are respected.Can you share the experiences in using this functionality ( pros and cons). How often this functionality is used?On the other hand when it comes to Operation Blocks, APB is capable of loading operation block as single object ( along with its operations) but APB does not keep the operation block scheduled space in the resource exclusively for the operation block. The operations in the block can freely schedule in the resource timeline if there are no
In a shop floor, the time and quantity reporting may happen in different time phases. Lets say , some shop floor has sensory devices where once the final goods are coming out from the conveyer, the number of units being produced are immediately reported to the ERP ( so to the APS- Advance Planning and Scheduling System). In some instances, may be not so immediately but fairly quickly after one batch of items is made. Usually by the machine operator. May be later in n the day by the shop floor supervisor. This could go even weeks and the items may be reported once the order is ready to ship out and reporting may be done as backflush operation.In any case, The quantities and times are updated to the software system and the current production plan should reflect the effect of these reporting. Lets take a simple example, A production planner of metal fabrication company create a production schedule for 1 month but constantly updated based on new customer order arrivals ( lets say daily
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