But then how would Op20 know where to pull from?
Probably not the best approach now that I think about it.
Yeah, I get that AMM is supposed to make it easier for op 20 to know where and it’d be best to have a process that flows… so if it’s just, “hey this wasn’t built to let you just put things in different locations all the time during the job” then okay. We can make a part and receive it to inventory, but it’d be great to not have to do that.
Technically probably yes BUT… it’s really really really ugly and would involve significant customization. The furthest I ever got down this path was a scoping session, and the client dropped it when they saw how ugly it was getting.
So, am I hearing you cannot move parts around to different bins while they are in WIP? it’s one resource in/out bin or nothin?
That’s how default functionality works.
The business case is that things are in WIP, hard to locate when they are in staging, and there’s not enough room to stage everything in front of the next resource or in a dedicated spot every time. That, and, identifying that the part has been modified by a previous op… since it doesn’t change part numbers on a flat bom how does the operator in resource group 2 know that resource group 1 has indeed touched the part…
There is a “Move WIP” app… I’ve never used it. In some workflows, you have to put in a Move WIP Request (“there’s an app for that”)…
I’m wondering, if you did add a “staging” operation… you could “Move WIP” from Op10, to Op15 “Staging”.
Then, when ready, “Move WIP” from Op15 staging bin to Op20’s input bin?
Trying to find a job in my pilot system to play with…
I intend to play around with it too, I just wanted to throw it out there and ask if anyone else was having the same business need. I know it’s cause we aren’t flowing things through, but we don’t have impeccable timing where it comes off one machine and flows right to the next. It almost always sits in a warehouse between the two resources so I’m trying to help them out.
Well, may work for you…
I was able to take parts from Op60’s “Production Bin” and move them to Op70, but I chose a warehouse “stock” bin location.
Looked at the job, and Activity > WIP Location showed Op70 parts were in fact being held in the stock bin.
I then did another Move WIP, and selected Op70… it automatically loaded the “From” location knowing they were in the stock bin. I then Moved them TO Op70… so, it let me move it from Op70, to Op70… and the TO bin defaulted to the resource’s default input bin.
I processed that move, and the Parts landed where they were supposed to, sitting at that point in Op70’s input bin.
So… this may work.