Routings and Work Centers

The Routings & Work Centers module provides for the entry and maintenance of routing and work center master records. A routing provides a process definition and details the manufacturing instructions to the operators. Whether the operation type is regular, batch, unattended, indirect or outside service, the system helps to define the appropriate routing information and track the associated labor and tooling requirements.

Each routing step defines standard labor/machine times, including setup time, run or processing time, indirect time, inspection time, machine time and a user-defined time element. With each standard time, there is a standard labor rate. For each step, the tooling requirements are also defined.

Routings can be defined as user predefined standard operations, or as unique operations.  If  standard operations are used, they may be customized for each routing.

Network routings enable the user to define the operation dependencies and manufacturing sequence so that work orders and repetitive schedule entries created from network routings are automatically scheduled through their critical paths.  Flattening of B.O.M's does not extend the scheduled manufacturing time.

The work center master defines locations where routings operations occur, and the overhead codes associated with those locations. For efficiency and utilization calculations, the standard shifts and other factors are also defined here.  Production line definitions help both the scheduling process and material consumption.