Prototype Shop Orders

Shop orders can be created using shop order type Prototype which facilitates prototype manufacturing. User can use either the Prototype or the Manufacturing structure/routing type when you create prototype shop orders.

Manufacturing Shop Orders are defined for bulk manufacturing for a value stream mapped product where the Entire production process is fine-tuned.

Once the Industrial Engineering process is done Planner can convert Prototype Shop Orders to Manufacturing (Using Redefine Shop Order Type Command). If the shop order type is Prototype, the structure and the routing used in the shop order should be of type Manufacturing and the status should be Buildable in order to convert the shop order to Manufacturing.

User has to manually enter the structure revision and routing revision in order to create Prototype shop orders. That is, no automatic fetching of structure/routing revisions takes place according to the date/serial effectivity of the part.

Few additions to Lakshans reply. A prototype shop order can use also Tentative structure/routing alternates. you can choose to create the prototype against either a Manufacturing type structure/routing, or create a separate structure/routing of type Prototype and use this. You can also have a separate prototype revision of the part to separate the stock record of the prorotype from manufacturing

Hi,

For me, the key difference is that a Prototype Structure can only ever be Tentative status which prevents it from ever being visible to MRP, so they can always exist in the production environment but never give false demand to MRP. Of course when you generate a Prototype Shop Order, the demand for any components will then be visible to MRP based on the Inventory Part status of those components.

It allows us clean flexibility to be trialling new prototype design revisions whilst concurrently maintaining the use of the latest revision manufacturing structures for production.

This was one of the major features that led to IFS being my choice of ERP System.

Cheers,

Wade