Flow Manufacturing Definitions
Areas
Areas represent either a section of the plant floor or an entire plant facility. You can use inventory organizations to define areas.
Locations
Locations represent storage areas from which material is pulled to fulfill kanban needs. You can use subinventories to define locations. See: Defining Subinventories.
Products and Parts
Products and parts are similar to items defined in Oracle Manufacturing. The item type attribute can be used to identify different types of items (e.g. finished goods, spare parts, etc.)
Product Structure
This process is similar to defining the bills of material for an item in Oracle Manufacturing.
Product Families
Families are groups of products that have similar product synchronization. Families can be defined in Oracle Manufacturing as a special type of item called "product family." Items defined using this type should be recognized by other products as a type of item that does not physically exist, but is used to group other items (products).
Lines
Lines are manufacturing work areas where you manufacture families of products.
Processes
Processes are very generic activities that often consist of multiple events that are performed in a specific sequence. For example, the process of painting could entail preparing the surface, polishing the surface, and painting the surface. Processes can be consistently used across product families and lines. As a result, processes are predefined and either copied or referenced to the product synchronization (routing) of each item.
Events
Events are the lowest level activities with resources assigned to them. They are similar to existing Operations. The definition of a process and an event can be used consistently across product families and lines. These can be predefined. Once defined, they can be either copied or referenced to the product synchronization (routing) of each item.
Kanban Pull Sequences
Kanban pull sequences define the replenishment chain for each item. This information includes the from and to locations, work and wait times, number of cards to be printed, and so on.
Line Operations
Line operations are used to regroup events to approximate TAKT time. They are line specific and are derived and defined during line balancing. Attributes of line operations primarily include an identification and a description.
Product Synchronization (Sync)
Product sync is the assigning of processes to products and defining the sequence in which they are performed. This is similar to defining a routing for an item.
