Overview of Repetitive Manufacturing
You can use Work in Process to produce assemblies on a continuous basis. This is known as repetitive manufacturing.
Repetitive Schedules
You can control your repetitive production quantities using repetitive schedules. You charge all production costs to the assembly itself, eliminating the need for discrete jobs.
Production Lines
You can manage repetitive production by production line. Production lines control how you schedule individual assemblies. Material and shop floor transactions are also controlled by production line. You can build an assembly on one or several lines. You can build single or multiple assemblies on a line.
Shop Floor Control
Shop floor control helps you manage the flow of production inside the plant. Routings can be used to schedule repetitive production activities and create requirements. You can use reports and views to help you control these activities. You can use production lines to separate areas of the shop floor.
Material Control
Material control helps you manage the flow of component material from inventory onto lines and into repetitive schedules. Bills of material can be used to create repetitive material requirements. You can build different repetitive assemblies on one production line to aggregate material requirements for a number of assemblies. You can use reports and views to help you control material activities.
Engineering Bills and ECOs
You can build released as well as unreleased revisions and engineering items. You can also add engineering items as material requirements. The system can automatically update your repetitive schedules following an engineering change order (ECO). You always schedule to build the most current revision.
Repetitive Line Scheduling
You can define minimum and maximum line rates, line start and stop times, and line lead times for repetitive production lines. The system uses these rates and times to schedule repetitive production to the minute.
Fixed and Variable Speed Production Lines
You can specify all the assemblies on a production line to run at the same production rate on your fixed rate lines. You can specify the production rate by assembly for your variable rate lines.
Fixed vs. Routing Based Line Lead Time Options
You can schedule your repetitive production lead time based on the assembly's routing or lead time line attributes to best simulate your repetitive production process.
Partial Days and Fractional Rates
You can define repetitive schedules for any number of processing days, including partial days. You can specify the daily quantity and/or the total quantity as any positive number including decimal quantities (up to 6 decimal places), such as 1.25.
Planning Repetitive Production
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP and Supply Chain Planning plans your repetitive production. You can automatically create repetitive schedules from planning's suggestions.
Open Job and Schedule Interface
You can import planned repetitive schedules from external systems into Work in Process.
Period-Based Costs
You can calculate the costs of repetitive production and recognize any variances on a periodic basis by closing accounting periods. You do not need to close repetitive schedules.
Repetitive Assembly and Line Costs
Repetitive production costs are tracked by assembly so you do not have to review your costs by individual repetitive schedule. You can also track your costs by assembly on a line or by individual line so you can compare costs for your production lines.
Repetitive Schedule Purge
You can purge all information associated with repetitive schedules including header records and detail and transaction information. You can also selectively purge some or all of the following schedule related information: schedule details (material requirements, resource requirements, and operations), move transactions, and resource cost transactions.
See Also
Comparison of Manufacturing Methods
Overview of Work in Process Scheduling
Work in Process Costs
Open Job and Schedule Interface, Oracle Manufacturing Open Interfaces Manual, R11
