Work Center/Resource setup?

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Thanks Rob!

Appreciates your reply

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Robert Brown <robertb_versa@...> wrote:
>
> Your on the right track.
>
> Unless you are a TRUE large lot CONTRACT manufacturer that
constantly sets up and breaks down very specific assembly process to
customer order/contract requirements, creating resource
groups/resources for specific jobs as needed is a nuts (to put it
bluntly).
>
> Surely, if you look at your products and processes, there are common
reused assembly processes (lines with consistent tooling, generic
process & labor skill sets).
>
> That is what our profit center assembly area is like.... BILLIONS of
potential configure/assemble to order products that can be boiled down
to 13 generic products lines (that mirror physical lines) and, under
them, have resources set up to represent the number of people
typically in those lines.
>
> Rob Brown
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Hi,

We're a mixed product assembly factory, and we do not have any 'fixed'
work centers.

We receives a lot of orders from different customers with different
products that we assemble in our factory. We could have 6-8 production
lines running at a single time.

I'd like to know how would you structure the work centers in such an
arrangements?
The current practice we're using is, we'll create a work center for
each product that we manufactures. So there's a lot of work centers,
most of which are obsolete(old projects - we create a WC for each
project..) and it's a bit messy.

I'm thinking of creating something more generic, in the line of
Assembly 1, 2, 3 and so on, as the work center doesn't change much.
Only the assembly operation in the work center does.

Would be grateful to know how others go about it.

Thanks a lot.
3
Your on the right track.

Unless you are a TRUE large lot CONTRACT manufacturer that constantly sets up and breaks down very specific assembly process to customer order/contract requirements, creating resource groups/resources for specific jobs as needed is a nuts (to put it bluntly).

Surely, if you look at your products and processes, there are common reused assembly processes (lines with consistent tooling, generic process & labor skill sets).

That is what our profit center assembly area is like.... BILLIONS of potential configure/assemble to order products that can be boiled down to 13 generic products lines (that mirror physical lines) and, under them, have resources set up to represent the number of people typically in those lines.

Rob Brown

--- On Fri, 7/18/08, eltaria.foong <eltaria.foong@...> wrote:

From: eltaria.foong <eltaria.foong@...>
Subject: [Vantage] Work Center/Resource setup?
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 4:09 AM






Hi,

We're a mixed product assembly factory, and we do not have any 'fixed'
work centers.

We receives a lot of orders from different customers with different
products that we assemble in our factory. We could have 6-8 production
lines running at a single time.

I'd like to know how would you structure the work centers in such an
arrangements?
The current practice we're using is, we'll create a work center for
each product that we manufactures. So there's a lot of work centers,
most of which are obsolete(old projects - we create a WC for each
project..) and it's a bit messy.

I'm thinking of creating something more generic, in the line of
Assembly 1, 2, 3 and so on, as the work center doesn't change much.
Only the assembly operation in the work center does.

Would be grateful to know how others go about it.

Thanks a lot.