Handling Work Guidelines on Shop Orders—Key Exercises

IMPORTANT
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.

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 that only needs to be done once for Discrete Manufacturing course exercises.

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

General exercise for Overview of Discrete Manufacturing Data

Required Data

Shop Order

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up a manually created shop order with the default information so that it can be modified in the main exercises below.

  1. Create a shop order for the part and lot size identified in the table below.
  2. Record the shop order numbers so that it will be easy to identify the correct shop order for each main exercise.
Site Part No Part Description Lot Size Shop Order Number
Your Site 21-230 Electrical System 10

General exercise for Creating Shop Orders Manually

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to use work guidelines on shop orders.

Windows:
Shop Order

You view the standard work guidelines on a shop order for electrical system for the racing engine. You then decide to change the work guidelines connected to operation 30.

Viewing Work Guidelines Created from Structures and Routings

You view the standard work guidelines on a shop order for electrical system for the racing engine.

  1. Open the Shop Order window and query for the shop order for this exercise. If you did not record the shop order number, query for your site, part number 21-230 and a quantity of 10. Verify that the status of the shop order is either Planned or Released.
  2. Click the Material tab. Verify that the values of the Work Guideline fields are Yes for the row for the 21-330 (Ignition System) component part, and No for the rows for the 21-221 (Starting System) and 21-332 (Battery System) component parts.
  3. Select the row for the 21-330 component part, right-click on the row, and then click Work Guideline. When the Shop Order Allocation Work Guidelines window displays, verify that the work guideline from the product structure was copied to the shop order. Click Cancel to close the Shop Order Allocation Work Guidelines window.
  4. Click the Operation tab. Verify that the values of the Work Guideline fields are Yes for the row for operation 30 (Test Assembled System), and No for the rows for operations 10 (Test Ignition System) and 20 (Assemble Parts).
  5. Select the row for operation 30, right-click on the row, and then click Work Guidelines. When the Shop Order Operation Work Guidelines window displays, verify that the work guideline from the routing was copied to the shop order.

Changing Work Guidelines on a Shop Order

You then decide to change the work guidelines connected to operation 30.

  1. In the Shop Order Operation Work Guidelines window, click New to create a new row in the table. In the Guideline Desc field, enter a brief description for the guideline you want to add. In the Guideline Test field, enter a sentence or two to fully describe the guideline. Click Apply to save the information without leaving the window.
  2. Click New to create another new row. Select the new row, right-click, and then click Work Guideline Template. When the Select Work Guideline Template window displays, select a row in the table and click OK to add a standard work guideline.
  3. Select the row for the original guideline and click Remove to remove the guideline. Click OK to save the changes and close the window.
  4. Close the Shop Order window.