Smart Operations: Manage Work Order Operation Queues for Workstations When Supervising Production

Welcome to the demo of 25A Smart Operations feature Manage Work Order Operation Queues for Workstations When Supervising Production in Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing.

This enhancement enables production supervisors to effectively manage work order operation queues at workstations within their work centers. As a production supervisor, you can perform the following actions: assign work order operations to workstations, unassign work order operations from a workstation, edit and resequence the work order operation queue at a workstation, view expedited work order operation details in the workstation queue, track the progress of work order operations at a workstation.

Supervisors need the ability to manage work order operation queue at workstations in real time. With real-time workstation queue management, production supervisors can efficiently manage sequencing of operations for their work centers. This allows supervisors to quickly adapt to changes in resource availability or customer requirements, optimizing resource utilization to achieve maximum productivity.

This demo shows you how you can use this feature. We will begin by reviewing a workstation with no operations assigned to it. Next, we will explore how to search, filter, and customize columns in the operation assignment drawer to assign the appropriate operations. We will then show how to modify the sequence of operations that have not yet started. Following that, we will demonstrate how to edit operation assignment quantities, enabling you to split an operation assignment across multiple workstations.

Next, we will cover how to unassign operations from the workstation queue. Finally, we will walk through the process of rescheduling a work order operation.

I am logged in as the production supervisor and have selected the work execution area in supply chain execution. Select the production supervision task to navigate to the production supervisor workbench. As a supervisor responsible for tablet assembly work center, I want to assign operations to the queue of Workstation-04. Click the card corresponding to Workstation-04.

Here, you see that currently there are no operations assigned to the workstation queue. Click the right arrow in the scorecard metrics bar to see more workstation metrics. Here, you see that assigned operations metric is zero since there are no operations assigned to the queue of the workstation. Click the Assign Operations icon or the Assign Operations button to start assigning operations.

The Operation Assignment drawer shows the list of eligible operations that can be assigned to the workstation queue. The entries listed here are operations from work orders in released status. These operations belong to the context work center, have a ready quantity or are expected to have one in the future, and include quantities that are not yet assigned to any workstation. You can search for your operations using either the work order, operation, or item. Enter an item name and click Search icon.

Here, you can see the operations matching the item code. You can narrow your search by using various filters. The resource filter allows you to narrow down operations to those which have the selected operation resource. Both machine and labor resources are included in the filter. The dispatch status filter lets you choose ready and future-ready operations. Ready operations currently have some ready quantity available, while future-ready operations will have a ready quantity available once their preceding operations are completed.

The planned start date filter allows you to narrow down operations to those with a planned start date within the specified date range. The planned completion date filter allows you to narrow down operations to those with a planned completion date within the specified date range. You can select the columns that you want to display in the operation assignments drawer. Click the Customize Columns icon.

Here, you can show more columns, hide columns that you don't want and change the order of the columns. Remove a few columns and add a new column. Scroll down. You can add the following additional columns that are hidden by default: expedited flag, operation name, work order quantity, equipment profile, resource. Close the dialog.

The columns are now displayed based on our selection. The default assignment quantity column shows the quantity assignable to the workstation. This value is calculated by taking the total quantity required for the operation, subtracting the quantities already completed and those assigned to other workstations. Select the first three operations to proceed. Select the Assign button.

The three selected operations have now been added to the workstation queue. Click the right arrow in the scorecard metrics bar. The assigned operations metric now displays 2 hours and 56 minutes, representing the total planned duration to complete the 3 operations in the workstation queue. This metric updates automatically whenever operations are assigned, unassigned, or their quantities are modified.

Click the Set Execution Sequence button. You can use this drawer to resequence operations that have not yet started. Simply drag the operations up or down to adjust their order. Click Update button to save the modified sequence. Here, we can see the operations listed in the modified sequence in the workstation queue. Operations are listed in the following order: in-progress operation, expedited operations, and then other operations in sequence.

Select work order operation PSW-WO-015-10. As a supervisor, you can edit the assigned quantity of an operation that has not yet started. You can then assign the remaining quantity to another workstation for execution, helping to balance the workload across workstations.

Edit the assigned quantity to any value between 1 and 47. I have updated the quantity to 20 units. This work order operation will now appear in the operations assignment drawer, with the remaining quantity of 27 units so that it can be assigned to another workstation. Click Update button.

You can unassign a work order operation that has not yet started. Select work order operation PSW-WO-014-10 to unassign it from the workstation queue. Click Unassign Operations button. The selected work order operation has been unassigned from the workstation queue. The assigned operations metric has been updated to 1 hour 25 minutes.

As a production supervisor, you can manually reschedule work order operations that have not yet started. Note that rescheduling operations does not affect their sequence, and resequencing operations does not change their schedule. These are independent actions.

Click the Reschedule Action icon for work order operation PSW-WO-015-10. This operation has a planned start time of 9:00 PM. Modify the value to 10:00 PM. Click Reschedule button. You can see here that the work order has been rescheduled to 10:00 PM.

To summarize this demo, we began by reviewing a workstation with no operations assigned to it and explored how to search, filter, and customize columns in the operation assignment drawer to assign the appropriate operations. Then we reviewed how to modify the sequence of operations, edit operation assignment quantities, unassign operations from the workstation queue, and reschedule a work order. This is the end of the feature demo. Thank you.