Understanding Production Areas

Set up production areas before you begin tracking manufacturing processes on the shop floor. Define the production area's default WIP locations, the WIP, rework and teardown accounts, items that are manufactured within each production area, and how each item will be manufactured.

You can associate multiple items with a production area, or you can associate an item with multiple production areas. For example, you can designate one production area for regular production of an item and another for rework or teardown production.

You can define how to move components to the shop floor and how to track production information. For example, do you want to use discrete orders or do you want to track production by day and shift?

When planned orders are generated, they are associated with a production area defined for an item. A production area can:

• Represent a production line, production cell, or manufacturing process.

• Contain all of the work centers necessary to manufacture an item.

Before defining the production area and item relationship, determine how you plan to use production areas to track production on the shop floor:

• Decide whether you plan to use discrete production orders (production IDs) or use production schedules to manufacture repetitively.

• Determine how you plan to issue components to production for each production area and item combination.

• Define a set of WIP accounts for each production area.

Note:

You cannot delete production areas.