Manufacturing Module

Feature / Workflow of new Manufacturing Module

General

• Hours will be the basic unit of measure.

BOM

• There will be a new table Flat BOM and Flat BOM item that will contain the exploded BOM for all BOMs for "Finished Goods" items.
• Flat BOMs will be re-built everytime a linked BOM is updated.
• Flat BOMs can be rebuilt manually to reflect latest purchase rates.
• What should be the units of operation time? and how do we treat it in terms of dependencies?
  • Gantt chart works well in days.
  • Operation time is good in minutes
  • What about setup time?

Project

• Additional Field:
  • BOM
  • Sales Order
• Project will have type "Manufacturing". Following features will apply for this type of Projects
• A Project can be built from a BOM
• When a Project is built, all tasks will be generated from the "Operations" section of BOM with dependencies of sub-assemblies.
• All tasks will be updated with material required based on the BOM.
• When the start date of the project is changed, all tasks will be "pushed"
• If the project is against a Sales Order, system will validate that the number of Manufacturing projects against this Sales Order does not exceed the ordered quantity

Build

• Create tasks from Operations
• Set workstation
• Set duration (hours)
• Set start date, start hour as earliest available,
• Add hours to define end-date, hour

Task

• Additional Fields
  • Start time, end time (along start date and time)
  • Workstation
  • Duration (hours)
  • For Item (the item that is created when this task is complete).
  • Quantity
• Additional Tables:
  • Depends On Tasks (tasks of sub-assemblies or other tasks this task is dependent on)
  • Materials Required for this task
• When the task is completed, a Stock Entry can be created to update the inventory.

Workstation

• Add Fields:

  • Workstation
  • Type: All working days / All days
  • from (time)
  • to (time)

• In case of breakdown, or a maintenance, create a Task on that Workstation so that another task is not planned.

Tool: Gantt

• Gantt for all Tasks
• Filtered by User, Workstation, Project
• Edit task dates directly from Gantt

Tool: BOM Tree Editor

• Tree editor for BOM
  • Add Operations and Material directly from the tree. Create, Edit BOM from Tree

Tool: Simulator

• Simulate all material entries in a given period.

• All Purchase Orders (Purchase Receipt)

• All Manufacturing type Tasks where items are consumed and a new item is created.

• All Sales Orders (Delivery Note)

• Show log of all failed events (Orders not delivered etc).

• If stockout, fail all subsequent events.

• Show list of all items that will be potentially out of stock.