Changing Shop Order Operations—Key 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 that only needs to be done once for Discrete Manufacturing course exercises.

1. If you have not done so already, set up your site for discrete manufacturing of racing engines.

General exercise for Overview of Discrete Manufacturing Data

Required Data

Inventory Part Balance

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to verify that you have enough parts to complete the main exercises. 

Windows:
Inventory Part Currently On Hand
Receive Inventory Part

1. Verify that you have at least the quantity of parts shown on the table below available for manufacturing. If you do not, receive the indicated quantity of the parts into inventory picking locations.

General exercise for Receive Inventory Part

Shop Order

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create a shop order that will be used in the main exercises below.

Windows:
Shop Order

Note: Record the shop order number so that it will be easy to identify the correct shop order for the exercise.

1. Create a shop order for the part and lot size shown in the table below.
2. Record the shop order number in the Shop Order Number field so that you can quickly find the shop order for the exercise.

General exercise for Creating Shop Orders Manually

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to modify the routing operations on a shop order by changing the routing operations requirements manually.

Windows:
Shop Order
Shop Order/Detail
Shop Order/Operations

You are the person responsible for maintaining the shop order information. Today you need to make changes to the operations on a shop order for building an Engine Assembly. The changes are:

• Add an operation to inspect the assembly after the last operation, fulfilling a specific request.
• Change the factor unit to Units/Hour on operation 50 (Assemble Engine).
• Remove the pick parts operation (10) due to a modification request.
• Replace the operation you just removed with your own operation 10 (Gather Components).

Adding an Operation to the Shop Order

Add an operation to inspect the assembly after the last operation, fulfilling a specific request.

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 21-210 and a quantity of 10. Verify that the status of the shop order is either Planned or Released.
2. Click the Operation tab, and create a new row in the table. 
3. Enter the following data into the new row:

• In the Operation No field, enter 70. 

• In the Operation Desc field, enter Inspection. 

• In the Work Center No field, enter 810.

• In the Labor Class No field, enter 6.

• In the Labor Factor field, enter 12.

• In the Crew Size field, enter 1.

• From the Factor Unit list, select Units/Hour.

• In the Start Date and Finish Date fields, enter the same data that is in operation 60. 

4. If specifying labor setup time, enter values in Setup Labor Class and Setup Crew Size fields.
5. Save the information.
6. Verify that the value in the Remaining Labor Hours field is 0.833333.

Changing an Operation on the Shop Order

Change the factor unit to Units/Hour on operation 50 (Assemble Engine).

1. On the Operation tab, for the operation 50 (Assemble Engine) record, change the Factor Unit field value to Units/Hour. Save the information.
2. Verify that the value in the Remaining Labor Hours field is 50.1.

Removing Operation from the Shop Order

Remove the pick parts operation (10) due to modification request.

1. On the Operation tab, select the row for operation number 10 (Pick Parts) and remove the record. Save the information.

Replacing a Deleted Operation with a New Operation

Replace the operation you just removed with your own operation 10 (Gather Components).

1. On the Operation tab, create a new record in the table.  
2. Enter the following data into the new row:

• In the Operation No field, enter 10 . 

• In the Operation Desc field, enter Gather Components. 

• In the Work Center No field, enter 100.

• In the Labor Class No field, enter 1.

• In the Labor Factor field, enter 10.

• In the Crew Size field, enter 1.

• From the Factor Unit list, select Units/Hour.

• In the Start Date and Finish Date fields, enter the same data that is in operation 20. 

3. Verify that the value in the Remaining Labor Hours field is 1.