Work centers

• Work center (field WST)

The work center is attached to a work center group. It corresponds to a production resource on which a routing operation is carried out.

This is an entity for which it is requested to plan loads and track production times.

Each work center is associated with an attachment site.

• Manufacturing site (field WCRFCY)

The production site associated with the user is proposed by default. It can be modified by another site authorized for the operator, depending on its authorizations.

• Description (field WSTDESAXX)

This long description is used as a title in screens and reports.

By default the short title, the long title or the column header of a data are recorded (on creation/update) in the connection language of the user.
You can add your translation in another language using the Translation function:

• Click Translation from the Actions icon in the corresponding field.
• In the Translation window, add a new language code with the translation in this language.

A user who logs on with this language will view the short description, long description or column header in their connection language if a translation exists. Otherwise, these descriptions will be available in the folder language.

The connection language must be defined as a default language for the folder.

• Short description (field WSTSHOAXX)

Short title used in the screens and reports. This title is recorded in your connection language.

By default the short title, the long title or the column header of a data are recorded (on creation/update) in the connection language of the user.
You can add your translation in another language using the Translation function:

• Click Translation from the Actions icon in the corresponding field.
• In the Translation window, add a new language code with the translation in this language.

A user who logs on with this language will view the short description, long description or column header in their connection language if a translation exists. Otherwise, these descriptions will be available in the folder language.

The connection language must be defined as a default language for the folder.

• Work center group (field WCR)

The work center group is a physical or fictitious entity grouping several work centers of machine, labor or sub-contracting type.

• field FIL1

• Work center type (field WSTTYP)

The type of a work center can be either machine, labor or sub-contracting.
The work centers of "sub-contracting" type are used to manage the operations carried out externally by sub-contracting suppliers.

• Structure (field TWD)

A weekly structure is a set of 7 values, each specifying the hourly capacity of a day in the week.
The weekly structure is used in the calendar management.

The Manufacturing module must exist in the folder for this field to be available for entry.

Calendars are used for calculating the capacity of a work center.
A calendar can be common to multiple work centers or specific to an individual work centre. It is made up of a succession of periods linked to weekly schedules.

• Costing dimension (field VLTCCE)

The costing dimension is used to link the work centers to the accounting: it contains information on hourly rates that are necessary for the cost calculations, and also the an alytical dimensions.

• No. of resources (field WSTNBR)

The number of work centers makes it possible to manage the number of resources for identical resources in order to carry out an operation.

For instance, a labor work center may comprise 3 people. This is indicated by entering 3 in the number of resources.

• field FIL1

• Automatic closing % (field CLEPCTAUT)

This percentage defines the threshold being applied to automatically close the materials during production tracking.

For instance, if the value is 95% and the material requirement is 200 UN, the system will suggest to close the material if the consumed quantity is greater than or equal to 190 UN.

• Location (field STOLOC)

This field specifies the default location in the entry of stock movements: receipts, issues, location changes etc., based on the setup of these transactions.

The location is linked to the work center. This work center is used when a material is attached to an operation and its allocation rule filters on a local location.

 The wildcard character "*" can be entered in this field. For example, entering "ZON*" displays all the occurrences containing these three letters.

• field FIL2

• Qualification level (field QLFLEV)

The qualification level, entered on 10 alphanumeric characters, is given for information purposes. It is not managed in the use of the different functions.

• Display level (field DSPLEV)

The display level (defined by default on the work center) is used to filter the initial Gantt display.

Within the scheduling function, it is possible to filter the work centers to be displayed as a function of this level.

• field FIL3

• Grouping (field GRPFLG)

If the grouping flag has the value "yes", it indicates that the work center is concerned by the grouping procedure of the X3 optimization.

The purpose here is to specify whether the work center can be subject to an operation grouping in the Optimization/Scheduling function, and if it is Yes on what horizon (horizon starting on the start date specified on launching the scheduling function). A work center subject to a grouping cannot be managed as a multiple resource work center. A routing operation using such a work center should specify which criterion leads to the grouping of the operations concerned.

• Horizon (field GRPHOR)

Horizon on which the grouping constraint will be taken into account by the scheduling.

• field JOURS1

• Run during employee break (field RUNBRKFLG)

When you select this check box, the machine work center remains running while an employee is on a break or an exclusive indirect task.

This field is only available for a Machine work center type.

• Constraint (field CONSTRAINT)

A constraint work center is considered by the optimization function as a work center with finite capacity whilst a non constraint work center has infinite capacity.

The box set to "yes" indicates that the work center is associated with constraints in terms of finite capacity (machine or labor).

• RCCP (field RCCP)

Rough Cut Capacity Planning in the translation of the French abbreviation "PGC" (for "Planification Globale des Capacités").

This flag characterizes the work centers. If the RCCP flag for the work center is set to "YES", the operation is identified as being critical during production. This flagging is particularly significant when it comes to generating macro-routings.

• Automatic replacement (field RPLAUTO)

This field is used in the optimization function (scheduling with infinite capacity). It is used to choose whether the replacement work centers are used during the optimization step so as to level the load, and so to reduce the lateness on objective.

• Distinction of the copies (field SBBFLG)

This field is used in the scheduling function. If it is active, all work center resources are displayed in several lines depending on the distinction criteria that are present on the operations linked to this work center. The distinction criteria are loaded onto the operations from the routing operations (tab Operation Scheduling).

• % efficiency (field EFF)

The efficiency is a way to measure compliance to the preset standards. It can be calculated over a given period by work center: Standard hours calculated for a given production divided by the actual hours worked.
Efficiency makes it possible to correct the standard times of the routing (multiplying coefficient) according to the used resource.

Two efficiency rates are managed depending on:

• work center: the rate is applied to all the routing operations that are going to take place on the work center,
• routing operation: the rate only applies to the considered operation.

If both coefficients are entered, they add up.
The calculated operating time is corrected in the following way: work center efficiency * operation efficiency * time.

The WSTEFFINH - Work center efficiency history general parameter (GPA chapter, MIS group) is used to specify whether the efficiency defined at work center level should be used on the routing operation.

• If the parameter is set to 'Yes', the efficiency entered in the work center is suggested by default when creating the routing operation with this work center. The calculated runtime = runtime entered * 1/operation efficiency,
• If this parameter is set to 'No', the efficiency entered in the work center is combined with that entered in the routing operation. The calculated runtime = runtime entered * 1/ work center efficiency * 1/operation efficiency.

• Shrinkage in % (field SHR)

This percentage is used to balance the quantities on the production operations based on the released quantity.

It is possible to introduce a shrinkage percentage on the work center, which is used to weight the planned runtimes for an operation using this work center by a loss or gain on the quantity produced for the work center.

• Expected time (field EXTHOUTIM)

• Actual time (field CPLHOUTIM)

• Cost type (field PCCCOD)

Use this field to assign this work center to a specific cost type. Cost types are used by Project management. In a labor context, a cost type defines the types of labor resource that can affect a project such as operator costs.

• Start date (field STRDAT)

Start of the period over which the variation is actually operative.

• End date (field ENDDAT)

End of the period over which the variation is actually operative.

• Reason (field CODVAR)

This field is used to identify a reason for a
capacity variation. (breakdown, maintenance etc.)
The available reasons can be parameterized via the
miscellaneous table
management.

• Structure (field VARTWD)

A weekly structure is a set of 7 values, each specifying the hourly capacity of a day in the week.
The weekly structure is used in the calendar management.

The Manufacturing module must exist in the folder for this field to be available for entry.

Calendars are used for calculating the capacity of a work center.
A calendar can be common to multiple work centers or specific to an individual work centre. It is made up of a succession of periods linked to weekly schedules.

• No. of resources (field VARWSTNBR)

The number of work centers makes it possible to manage the number of resources for identical resources in order to carry out an operation.

For instance, a labor work center may comprise 3 people. This is indicated by entering 3 in the number of resources.

• Alternate work center (field RPLWST)

The replacement work center must obviously be different from the replaced work center.
The replacement takes place in the work order management func tion, in case of overload, for instance.

• Description (field RPLWSTDES)

• Priority (field PIO)

It is the flag used to assign a priority to the replacement work center.

• Work center group (field RPLWCR)

• Work center type (field RPLWSTTYP)

• Period end (field PEREND)

• Date (field PERTXT)

• Adjusted availability (field PERAVA)

• Firm load (field OWFLOD)

• Planned load (field OWPLOD)

• MRP load (field OWSLOD)

• MPS load (field ORSLOD)

• Period start (field PERSTR)