Work Centers

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.

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

This field identifies the type of operation that is performed at this work center. This might be a machine, a labor resource, or a subcontracted operation. Work centers of type Subcontracting are managed externally by subcontract suppliers.

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.

Enter, select or build an Enterprise Management filter calculation expression using the formula editor.

Specify either thestock location or a formula used to calculate this location for each work center.

Use this field to link this work center with your financial accounting. The costing dimension provides financial information on which the calculation of the provisional costs, and the production cost price are based.

Specify either the weekly structure to assign to all the work centers of the selection, or a formula used to calculate this structure for each work center.

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.

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.

This field is used to enter:

• a resource number to allocate to all the work centers of the selection by checking the corresponding box, or
• a formula making it possible to calculate for each work centers the resource number to allocate.

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.

Enter, select or build an Enterprise Management filter calculation expression using the formula editor.

Specify either a percentage to assign to all the selection work centers, or a formula to calculate this percentage for each work center.

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.

Enter, select or build an Enterprise Management filter calculation expression using the formula editor.

Specify either the workshoplocation to assign to all the work centers of the selection, or a formula used to calculate this location.

Use this field to define the default location of this production resource at the defined manufacturing site.

This value is used by stock movement transactions such as receipts, issues, and location changes. It is also used when a component is assigned to an operation where the allocation rule filters by location.

Specify either the qualification level to assign to all the selected work centers, either a formula used to calculate for each work center this qualification level.

The qualification level is a 10-character alphanumeric reference field only.

When checked, this box is used to indicate the efficiency to apply.

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 factor) according to the used resource.

Two efficiency rates are managed depending on the following:

• Work center: The rate is applied to all the routing operations that will take place at the work center.
• Routing operation: The rate only applies to the considered operation.

If both factors 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 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 WSTEFFINH 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 WSTEFFINH 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.

Enter, select or build an Enterprise Management filter calculation expression using the formula editor.

Specify either a loss percentage to assign to all the selected work centers or a formula used to calculate this percentage for each work center.

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.

Enter, select or build an Enterprise Management filter calculation expression using the formula editor.

Specify the new weekly structure to be assigned to the selection work centers as a whole.

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.

Select this check box to indicate that this work center is associated with constraints in terms of finite capacity (machine or labor).

Specify the new weekly structure to be assigned to the selection work centers as a whole.

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

This check box characterizes this work center. Select this check box if an operation at this work center is identified as being critical during the manufacturing process. A critical operation is particularly significant when generating macro-routings.