Work Centers and Machines Features and Functions
Work centers and machines are specific production areas that can be considered as one unit for purposes of capacity requirements planning and detailed scheduling. These centers consist of one or more people or machines with similar capabilitites.
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- Assigns subcontracting codes to work centers
- Stores rates codes for labor, machine, and overhead, for each work center
- Calculates and stores work center capacity
- Defines primary and secondary resources for each work center
- Uses date effectivity to calculate capacity
- Work center calendars
- Tracks work center information, such as items and operations
- Associates an employee(s) to a machine for a particular operation
- Associates resource planning and exception reporting to a planner
- Backflushing labor for crews at different rates
- Tracks variable and fixed overhead rates by setup, labor, and machine
- Tracks variable and fixed overhead rates by work center
- Calculates operation rate based on percentage allocations for operations and production activities
- Defines queue times by item and operation
- Internal and external queue times
- Indicates the number of machines in a work center
- Specifies variations in machine and work center capacity by time period
- Labor efficiency and equipment utilization factors
- Defines the number of hours per day a work station is available
- Work center files can be tracked, maintained, and updated online
- Generates reports on work centers capacity, outputs, runtimes, etc.
- Users can create item-specific routings
- Users can assign a routing for an item independently from other items
- Displays machine data graphically
- Determines the capacity of machines and labor in hours, minutes, and units
- Calculates labor burden rates by machine, usually as a percentage
- Calculates labor and machine efficiency to determine standard machine hours
- Stores machine codes
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Shop Floor Control Features and Functions
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