Setting up Work Centers, Production Lines, Labor Classes, and Manufacturing Tools - Basic Data and Requirements Exercises

IMPORTANT
If you are a student, it is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to show you how to create work centers, production lines, labor classes, and manufacturing tools; and to set up the basic requirements.

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Windows:
Work Center
 Production Line
 Manufacturing Labor Class/Manufacturing Tool

Note: In the exercises below, you will be helping IFS Racing get its current manufacturing resources into the system.

Create Work Center

  1. Open the Work Center window.
  2. Create a work center by clicking New and entering 200 in the ID field for the work center. 
  3. In the Description field, enter Machining.
  4. In the Calendar field, use the List of Values to select the appropriate calendar. 
  5. Save your changes.
  6. Click the Cost tab. Enter the cost as shown in the table below.
Cost Set Work Center Cost Overhead 1 Overhead 1 Unit
1 10 2 Hour
2 10 2 Hour
  1. Save your changes.

Note: You have now created a work center with one resource, the default resource, 200. To enter more resources, click the Resource tab, and then click New. Note the capacity on the WC Capacity tab.

  1. Click the Employees tab. Note that in the Efficiency field you can change the resource efficiency to any value greater than 0%.
  2. Return to the header portion of the window. Note that in the Utilization field you can change the utilization for all resources to any value from 0% to 100%.

Create Production Line

  1. Open the Production Line window.
  2. In the Production Line field, click New, and enter PL1.
  3. In the Description field, enter Chassis Line 1.
  4. In the Calendar field, use the List of Values to select the appropriate calendar.
  5. Save your changes.

Note: You have now created a production line. To connect work centers to it, open the Work Center window, and query for the specific work centers. On the Detail tab, you can simply add the production line in the Production Line field.

Create Work Center Department

  1. Open the Manufacturing Standard Basic Data window. 
  2. In the Work Center Department tab, click New, and enter WCD1.
  3. In the Description field, enter Painter's Workshop.
  4. Enter your site.
  5. Save your changes.

Note: You have now created a work center department. To connect work centers to it, open the Work Center window, and query for the specific work centers. On the Detail tab, you can simply add the work center department in the Work Center Department field using the List of Values.

Create Labor Class

  1. Open the Manufacturing Labor Class window.
  2. In the Labor Class field, click New,  and enter the information shown in the table below.
  3. In the Calendar field, use the List of Values to select the appropriate calendar. 
  4. Save your changes.
  5. Click the Cost tab. Enter the information shown in the table below.
Labor Class Labor Class Description Labor Class Rate Overhead  Overhead Unit
1

General 1

 25 2 Hour
  1. Save your changes.

Note: You have now created a labor class with one resource, the default resource, MEC. To enter more resources, click the Resources tab, and then click New.

Create Manufacturing Tool

  1. Open the Manufacturing Standard Basic Data window.
  2. Click the Manufacturing Tool Type tab.
  3. Click New, and enter P in the Tool Type field.
  4. In the Tool Type Description field, enter Portable. 
  5. Save your changes.

Note: You have now created a tool type for portable tools. The tool type is used to group multiple manufacturing tools. It is needed to create a manufacturing tool. The same procedure applies to enter an alternate tool.

  1. Open the Manufacturing Tool window.
  2. In the Tool ID field, click New, and enter 9–001.
  3. In the Tool Type Description field, enter Torque Wrench.
  4. In the Tool Type field, use the List of Values to select Tool Type P.
  5. In the Calendar field, use the List of Values to select the appropriate calendar.
  6. Save your changes.

Note: You have created Manufacturing Tool 9–001, which belongs to Tool Type P, a portable torque wrench. By default, you also have created the first tool instance named as the tool ID. To enter more tool instances, click the Tool Detail tab, and click New in the Tool Instance field.