No of Same Work Center

[raviram08]

Hi all,

My client's requirement is like this

the client has 7 lathe machines on the shop floor sometimes he uses one lathe machine for one order, sometimes he uses two lathe machines, sometimes he uses all lathe machines for one order. sometimes he uses 1,2,3 for one order and 4,5,6,7 for another order, the client does not want to have  7 different work centers due to more no of production versions and routing.

He wants to group them all into one and use them based on req.

Is there any possible solution for this if there please help.

Thanks 

Raviram

[ajitkumar]

Are you doing capacity requirement planning ?

[DominikTylczyn]

Hello @raviram08 

One of the possible modelling approaches is to have a single workcenter for all the 7 lathe machines, model each machine as a single capacity and maintain 7 capacities in the workcenter.

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski

[raviram08]

Thank you Dominik Tylczynski, Could you please elaborate how to configure this in the system, and how costing and scheduling can be managed Thank you.

[DominikTylczyn]

Hello @raviram08 

Number of capacities is maintained in work center master, on capacity level:

See the note 2600113 - Workcenter capacity fields cannot be edited if you can't edit the field.

The impact on the scheduling is that an operation can be executed in parallel on individual capacities / machines of a work center. Maximum number of machines used for an operation is defined in a routing operation details as maximum splits.

Bear in mind that ultimately both costing and scheduling depend on formulas and these are often heavily customized.

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski

[raviram08]

Thank you Dominik Tylczynski, Could you please elaborate how to select in routing . if you can provide any doc it will be more helpfull. Thank you.

[DominikTylczyn]

Hello @raviram08 

To select what in a routing? If a work center has multiple capacities you specify the work center in an operation in a routing as any other work center.

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski

[raviram08]

Hi Dominik Tylczynski my question is how to differentiate the capacity in routing , how to select 2,3,4 capacity in routing.