Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 9 · Work Areas, Work Centers and Resources
Lab: model the floor for two plants
Lesson 95 of 188 · 2 min
An hour, for Bergen and Skien. Work areas for both, reflecting a stated plant layout. A written granularity decision for work centers, with the controller's likely requirements addressed — the controller's requirements, not just the scheduler's, and the first acceptance criterion checks exactly that. Labour and equipment resources defined by class, not by individual. Work centers created with supply subinventories set — every one, because the failure is silent. Resources assigned with units available, efficiency and utilization. One work center with three identical machines modelled via units available rather than three centers. A planned maintenance exception on one resource. And evidence: available capacity for one work center, verified by hand against the shift pattern. Five acceptance criteria, and two are worth reading twice. The granularity decision addresses cost reporting, not just scheduling — half the marks on that deliverable are for the half of the decision people forget. And the…
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In this module: Module 9 · Work Areas, Work Centers and Resources
- 1Modelling the shop floor
- 2Work areas
- 3Resources and resource types
- 4Work centers
- 5Work center resources and capacity
- 6Resource calendars and availability
- 7The costing connection
- 8What breaks
- 9Lab: model the floor for two plants