Creating Prototype Shop Orders—Extended Exercises

Basic Data Setup

Discrete Manufacturing Overview Racing Engine

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create the required data that will be used in the Discrete Manufacturing exercises. This sets up data for your site and needs to be done only once for the Discrete Manufacturing course exercises.

1. Set up your site for discrete manufacturing of racing engines. with the steps.

General exercise for Overview of Discrete Manufacturing Data

Prototype Product Structure

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up the prototype product structure for the discrete racing engine cooling system on your site.

Windows:
Product Structure
Product Structure/Product Structure

Use Copy Structure Revision to create a new Prototype Structure for the part in the table below.

1. Open the Product Structure window and query for the part and site 1.
2. Select the prototype revision, right-click and then click Copy Structure Revision. This makes a copy of the record to your site, and the structure alternate for the part just copied to your site is created in the Tentative state.
   
   Note: You must first change the site to your site, and then select Prototype as the structure type in order to create a prototype structure revision with the Prototype Part Revision Prefix defined in the Site/Manufacturing tab.

General exercise for Copying Revisions

Prototype Routing Revision

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up the prototype routing revision for the discrete racing engine cooling system on your site.

Windows:
Routing

Use Copy Structure Revision to create a new Prototype Routing for the part in the table below.

1. Open the Routing window and query for the part and site 1.
2. Select the prototype revision, right-click and then click Copy Structure Revision. This makes a copy of the record to your site, and the structure alternate for the part just copied to your site is created in the Tentative state.
   
   Note: You must first change the site to your site, and then select Prototype as the routing type in order to create a prototype routing revision with the Prototype Part Revision Prefix defined in the Site/Manufacturing tab.

General exercise for Copying Revisions

Required Data

System Parameters

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to ensure that the system parameters are set correctly for the main exercises below.

Windows:
Parameters for Distribution and Manufacturing

1. Open the  Parameters for Distribution and Manufacturing window.

2. Verify that the value for the Create SO in status Planned field is Yes.

General information for System Parameters

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create a prototype shop order

Windows:
Shop Order
Shop Order/Detail
Shop Order/Material
Shop Order/Operation

Creating a Prototype Shop Order

You need to test a new trial version of a product that is planned to be manufactured. Therefore, you decide to create a prototype shop order.

1. Open the Shop Order window and create a new record.
2. If the value for the Site field is not your site, change it to your site.
3. In the Part No. field, enter 21-240 as the part to be manufactured as a prototype part.
4. In the Lot Size field, enter 1 for the quantity to be manufactured as a prototype part.
5. In the Shop Order Type list on the header, click Prototype.
6. Enter the Prototype structure revision and alternative.
7. Enter the Prototype routing revision and alternative.

Note: You have to manually enter the structure revision and routing revision in order to create prototype shop orders. That is, no automatic fetching of structure/routing revisions takes place according to the date/serial effectivity of the part. You can use either the Prototype or the Manufacturing structure/routing type when you create prototype shop orders.

8. Save the information.
9. Record the value that the system automatically generated for the Order No. field. (This will make it easier for you to query your shop order.)
10. Click the Material tab and verify that each component part shown in the table below has a record. Notice that the components are from the prototype structure and not the structure for manufacturing.

11. Click the Operation tab and verify that each operation shown in the table below has a record. Notice that the operations are from the prototype routing and not the routing for manufacturing. 

12. If value of the State field is Planned, right-click anywhere in the Shop Order window header, and then click Release.

13. When the Release Shop Order dialog box appears, click OK.

Note: The Discrete Manufacturing course will not use this shop order after this exercise, so you may further process this shop order if desired.