Teardown

Often, you need to break an assembly down into its component parts and return the components to inventory. With PeopleSoft Manufacturing, you can:

• Tear down an assembly as built and as planned.

• Base a teardown production ID on an existing production ID so that the original configuration can be retrieved and torn down.

• Specify teardown components on a production BOM and a teardown routing so that you can set up a default configuration and teardown steps in advance, if no existing production ID is available.

Effects of Teardown on BOMs and Routings

When maintaining a production or engineering BOM, you can indicate whether the component could be a potential output from a teardown order. By selecting a check box on the Component Summary page, you designate the component as a teardown output. If you select this check box, the system automatically copies the component details to a new Teardown Outputs page when you create a new teardown order. If you do not select the check box, it indicates that the component is not an output of a torn-down assembly.

You can include teardown outputs when you copy a BOM. Additionally, you can delete the teardown outputs. All BOM inquiries include a new page used to display teardown outputs.

You can create a teardown routing. The teardown routing can differ from the production routing, but it can use any of the existing tasks or work centers defined for production. As with production routings, you have the option of having a primary teardown routing and up to 98 alternates. When copying a routing, you can copy a teardown routing to another item ID or business unit.

Effects of Teardown on Production

When you select the production type of Teardown during production ID maintenance, you indicate whether the list of teardown components is based on a previous component list or the production BOM code. Use the Transaction History search to find the original production ID used to create the item to be torn down. If multiple production IDs were used to create this item, the system generates a list of production IDs. Once you select the production ID from the list, the system copies the components designated as teardown components to the teardown production ID output list, and the assembly item is copied to the component list. You have the option of using the original operation list or you can use a predefined operation list from a teardown routing.

If there is no original production ID for the item, you use a teardown BOM and routing. When you indicate that a component is a teardown output during production BOM maintenance, the system automatically copies the component details to a teardown page. The outputs appear when the item is torn down and enables you to override the output quantity or operation sequence.

When recording completions on teardown orders, you can report the number of assemblies torn down. The system calculates the quantity of each component removed from the assembly item. In addition, because teardown components are reported at any operation, you are provided the functionality necessary to report teardown completions. You can route the teardown components to another production ID, back to stock, or to a container in the same manner as any completed item. You can reassign lot and serial numbers for the components.

The system uses a teardown variance type to collect any additional expenditure from tearing down the assembly, as well as to account for lost conversion costs.