Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 14 · Work Execution
Work order types and the execution model
Lesson 135 of 188 · 2 min
A check before you start. You need component stock on hand. If you skipped the inventory module's load, stop here and run the checkpoint pack — nothing in this module works without it, and you would rather find that out now than four lessons in. Standard work orders reference a work definition and inherit operations, materials and resources — the normal case. Non-standard work orders do not. Materials and operations are entered manually, and they are used for rework, one-offs, disassembly and maintenance-style work. Rework is the one you will use constantly. The status lifecycle is unreleased, released, complete, closed — and what matters is what each permits and what each blocks. Two execution styles, and this is the design decision in the module. Quick complete — one action completes everything. Fast, and appropriate for short-cycle work with reliable backflush. Detailed execution — operation by operation, with explicit transactions —…
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In this module: Module 14 · Work Execution
- 1Work order types and the execution model
- 2Creating and releasing work orders
- 3Material availability and reservations
- 4The dispatch list
- 5Operation transactions
- 6Material transactions: issue and backflush
- 7Resource transactions
- 8Completion, scrap and rework
- 9Work order close and exceptions
- 10What breaksFree preview
- 11Lab: run the plant