Welcome to Release 12.1 of the Oracle Process Manufacturing Product Development User's Guide.
This guide assumes that you have working knowledge of your business area’s processes, tools, principles, and customary practices. It also assumes that you are familiar with Oracle Process Manufacturing. If you have never used Oracle Process Manufacturing, we suggest you attend one or more of the Oracle Process Manufacturing training classes available through Oracle University.
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This topic provides the fundamentals of Product Development. It presents the basic tasks, responsibilities, and process flow required to develop and maintain a product. Discussions provide a basic understanding of navigation, workbenches, the status approval workflow, and version control. You are shown how to add and edit status codes.
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This topic shows you how to define the formulas that drive your manufacturing process. It includes a basic understanding of formula setup. You are shown how to enter item technical data and use the Simulator for laboratory simulations. You are introduced to setting up formula information including how to use formula phantoms, methods available to scale formulas, and to find formulas. In addition to entering formula details, you are shown how to define and maintain formulas at the header and line levels. Methods for determining where ingredients are used, the Indented Bill of Materials Report, and formula inquiry help you locate formula information rapidly.
This topic shows you how to define and maintain operations, activities, and resources. You are also shown to find an operation. Summaries of operations and operation headers provides an overview what is created. The process to enter operation activity details and activity-resource details is explained. You are also shown how to display activity lines and edit a summary of resource lines.
This topic shows you how to define and maintain routings. You are also shown how to find a routing. A summary of routings and routing headers provides an overview of the routings that are available. The processes of entering routing details and displaying the routing step line summary are explained. You are also shown how to edit routing step lines, and how to enter routing step dependencies. Procedures for displaying and editing theoretical process loss are provided.
This topic shows you how to define and maintain recipes. You are shown how to find a recipe. You are also shown how to display a summary of recipes and recipe headers. Procedures to enter recipe details, recipe organization details, and edit validity rules demonstrate the process flow for recipe development. You learn how to display and interpret recipe validity rules and how to display the recipe step and material association.
This topic provides a basic understanding of least cost formulation. It includes information on using the formulation specification workbench, entering a new formulation specification, and a new requirement. Material, compositional, and technical requirements are discussed, and use of the formulation specification summary is presented. You are shown how to generate and optimize a formula.
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