Execute Process Manufacturing Work Orders at Workstations

Welcome to the demo of the 25B feature Execute process manufacturing work orders at workstations. The Operator Workbench, a consumer grade user experience for production operators to execute operations at workstations, was introduced in 24C for the discrete manufacturing work method. Through 25B, increasing functionalities have been added to the Operator Workbench for the discrete work method.

With this update in 25B, most of the functionalities supported for discrete work method in the Operator Workbench will also be supported for process manufacturing work orders. Production operators can complete multiple co-products and byproducts with lot information into inventory or expense location. They can also issue materials corresponding to primary or co-products for an operation.

To support the realities of process manufacturing work method, ad hoc outputs can be reported for any operation at any point during execution. This consumer-grade user experience for the production operator has been designed with the realities of process manufacturing in mind. This helps the production operators focus on their manufacturing tasks with convenient access to all the information required to perform these tasks efficiently.

Now, let's get into a demo for this feature. I will launch the Execute Production at a Workstation task in work execution work area. I will select a workstation and check into it. I will select a process work order and view details of the operation I'm going to execute. I will then report a manual output of type byproduct, and then complete an operation transaction along with an automatic output of type byproduct.

Now, let's get into the demo. In the Work Execution work area, I launch the action Execute Production at a Workstation. I check into my workstation, Extraction Station-01. I have checked in to the workstation and I'm presented with the details of it. On the right hand side, I can see that I am the operator checked in to this workstation. If there were additional operators working with me, they would also be listed here. I can also see an attachment that the manufacturing engineer has shared with the users of this workstation.

This workstation has one equipment, Extraction Vat 01 of the resource Extraction Vat assigned to it. Any additional information that the manufacturing engineer wanted to share with the production operator is also available here in the Additional Information section. The Activity section of this page shows the production exceptions that have been reported from this workstation and any notes that were left by operators who have worked in this workstation prior to me currently working here.

I select a process manufacturing work order M1-1405. I can see the details of the work order operation from this work order that can be executed at this workstation. The work order operation is number 10, extraction. The item is MFG_Orange_Juice. The batch quantity is 500 liters. The expected outputs defined for this work order operation are MFG_Orange_Essence, MFG_Orange_Juice, and MFG_Orange_Peel_ByProduct.

The equipment that I would be using for this work order operation execution is Extraction Vat, and the specific instance is Extraction Vat 01, which is present at this workstation. I click on Start to begin execution. The workstation is now in use status, and I'm presented with the work order operation progress reporting page. At the top, I can see that the actions that I can take for this work order operation are report materials, report output, and report exceptions.

I'm first going to report the manual outputs defined for this work order operation. I click on Report Output. I am presented with the Output Reporting page prepopulated with the manual outputs defined for this work order. I can see the expected output MFG_Orange_Essence defined as a byproduct of type manual for this work order operation. The expected quantity is 15 units. This is defined in the work definition and carried over to the work order operation.

Optionally, I can define the subinventory and locator for this output. I click on Submit to report the output transaction to inventory. The output has been reported, and the details of this transaction can be viewed in the transaction history for this work order in the production supervisor workbench. I'm now going to report an operation completion transaction by entering the quantity to complete and clicking on Complete. The Complete Quantity field is defaulted with the minimum transfer quantity defined in the work definition.

I'm first presented with the Backflush Materials page. I can see here that one item has been added as an operation pull material for this work order operation, MFG_Oranges. The required quantity are defaulted. If required, I can edit the To Transact quantity. I'm happy with the quantities entered here, and I click on Continue. I'm now presented with the Inventory Transaction page. Here, the automatic outputs defined for this work order operation are prepopulated.

The Inventory Transaction page is always displayed while reporting operation transactions for process manufacturing work orders. Here, I'm going to report two outputs. The primary product, MFG_Orange_Juice, and a byproduct, MFG_Orange_Peel. Both these outputs are of type automatic. The transaction quantities here are defaulted based on the expected quantity defined in the work definition and the operation completion quantity entered in the previous step.

If required, I can enter the subinventory and locator for this output. Additional ad hoc outputs can also be added from this page. I click on Submit to report the output transaction along with the operation completion transaction. The details of this transaction and any other information about the process manufacturing work order can be viewed in the Production Supervisor Workbenches Work Order tab, searching for the work order, and looking at the transaction history for the work order.

When done with my work, I click on Stop. This stops the work order operation execution at this workstation. The workstation now is back in idle status. The duration spent during execution of this work order operation is computed, and the work order operation resources are charged. For more information, please refer to Manufacturing What's New for the following features: From the 24C release, the features create, edit, and search for workstations, and execute production at a workstation and automate resource transactions.

From the 24D release, the feature use the enhanced work execution capabilities at a workstation. And from the 25B feature, manage process manufacturing work orders in the Production Supervisor Workbench feature. This concludes the demo for this feature. Thank you.