Understanding Engineering Routings

This topic lists prerequisites and common elements and discusses engineering routings.

Prior to creating and maintaining engineering routings, you must perform these steps within PeopleSoft Manufacturing:

  • Define work centers where jobs or tasks will be performed.

  • Define conversion codes, if you want to calculate conversion costs.

    These codes can be the same codes as defined for manufacturing.

  • Define conversion rates (labor, machine, and overhead rates or costs), if you want to calculate conversion costs.

    These rates can be the same as those defined for manufacturing.

When defining engineering routings, you have several options regarding the information that you want to associate with a routing. This information is maintained in PeopleSoft Manufacturing. These steps are optional:

  1. Define resources.

    Resources can be crews (people), machines, or tools. You can associate resources with a work center.

  2. Define the master list of tasks to be performed in the manufacturing process.

    Tasks are useful if the same task is performed when manufacturing several items. You need only define the processing information once on the task and then assign the task to the engineering routings of these items.

  3. Define count points.

    Count points are an automated way to predefine where in the item's routing to record completions and scrap costs. If an operation is designated as a count point, assembly completions must be recorded at that operation. Material is only consumed, and labor and overhead is only earned, up to the previous count point.

    Note: Count points can be used only on production IDs.

If you have enabled PeopleSoft Workflow, the system uses the Routing Change workflow to send notification to the manufacturing engineer (or other defined role) that a change has been made to a routing.

See also the product documentation for PeopleSoft Engineering , “Delivered Workflows for PeopleSoft Engineering”.

Field or Control

Description

Routing Type

Select a routing type. Values are:

  • Production: Default routing type.

    Production routings can be used for standard manufacturing processes.

  • Rework: You can create rework routings when you have a standard rework process.

    Rework routings list the routing steps that are commonly used to rework an assembly.

    Note: Rework routings are available when creating rework production IDs.

  • Teardown: Use teardown routings when you are breaking an assembly down into its component parts and returning the components back to inventory.

    Teardown routings can differ from the production routing, but can use any of the existing tasks or work centers defined for production. Teardown outputs can be produced at any operation. No operation that produces teardown outputs can be a subcontracted operation.

    Note: Teardown routings are available when creating teardown production IDs.

Engineering departments need the ability to maintain and use engineering routings (ERTGs) without affecting current manufacturing routings. They also can require the ability to create what-if scenarios with routings, determine the costing impact of new and modified routings, and place routings under engineering change control.