Overview of Production Execution Tasks

Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing offers several features that facilitate the work order based and orderless production executions for discrete manufacturing. For process manufacturing, work order based execution is supported. The production reporting is simplified by enabling you to report the production transactions in just two clicks.

You can use the Work Execution work area to complete all tasks related to production execution if you've been assigned a job role your enterprise uses for production operator work.

For work order-based execution, you can use the dispatch list that provides all the information that a production operator requires to perform the tasks. You can use the dispatch list to report the material, operation, and resource transactions from one single location. You can review the work order details and attachments and print the work order travelers and product labels. If the next operation is delayed for want of resources or materials, you can also resequence a subsequent operation to be executed next to avoid such delays to make further progress. For process work orders you can also report output transactions. You can also initiate inspections from the dispatch list for a work order operation.

You can report the material and resource usages automatically or manually. The material and resource transactions can be reported based on the work order requirements or actual usage. The serial tracked manufacturing supported for discrete manufacturing enables you to report material and operation transactions by product serials that are associated with the work order. The lean manufacturing is supported by enabling you to report orderless production activities without creating any work orders in discrete manufacturing. The orderless transactions are reported by referencing a discrete work definition. You can review the work order based and orderless transactions that are reported by the shop floor personnel. For process work orders the output items can be reported automatically or manually in any operation.

The import feature is supported by enabling you to import the material, resource, operation, and orderless transactions using the file-based data import infrastructure. You can use the predefined macro enabled spreadsheet templates for performing an import. Additionally, the external applications can record the material and operation transactions in Manufacturing by using the publicly available web services. You can also import output transactions for process work orders. There are separate FBDI templates that you can use to import material and operation transaction for discrete and process work orders.

The descriptive flexfields (DFF) are supported for operation transactions, resource transactions, lot / serial attributes for products in complete with details and orderless transactions, and for output transactions. Lot / serial attributes are also supported for components. However, for components you can only view the lot attributes, but you can't edit them. If any of these DFF attributes are required, you must enter a value, else you can't save the transaction.

IoT Integration for Work Execution

You can automate the real time reporting of operation completion transactions and output transactions for manufacturing work orders in real-time by integrating with Oracle Fusion Cloud IoT Production Monitoring. The shop floor transactional data collected by the IoT devices connected to the equipment resource instances of a work order operation can be used to automatically report completed, scrapped and rejected quantities of operation transactions, and actual quantities of output transactions. To be eligible for reporting, the resource instance must belong to the resource with the highest resource sequence number within the work order operation being reported.

For more information, refer to the Verify Work Order Status and Produced Quantities topic in the Using Oracle Internet of Things Production Monitoring Cloud Service guide.

In addition, you can extend your current manufacturing workflows to natively include robotic and automation equipment as follows:

Define a production resource as automation equipment and an instance of the resource. The instance of an automation equipment used to process an operation is synchronized with Production Monitoring as a machine to establish communication with the equipment.
Define a document item to represent a program file, it's location and current revision and associate the program file name to an automation equipment resource.
Associate a program file name to a work definition operation resource to be defaulted and used by a resource instance when its assigned to a work order operation resource.
Generate and associate equipment parameters file to a work definition operation resource to be defaulted and used by a resource instance when its assigned to a work order operation resource.
Execute an operation by sending a start signal to the automation equipment through IoT Production Monitoring.
Navigate from dispatch list to digital twin view of automation equipment in IoT Production Monitoring to review real-time operation execution status with contextual telemetry, and transactional data.
Create operation completion transaction automatically when the automation equipment signals completion.
Perform automatic quality inspection and disposition through integration with Oracle Quality Management, based on the data received from automation equipment. Create completion or rejection transactions automatically in Manufacturing based on disposition information received from Oracle Quality Management.
Create a production exception automatically in Manufacturing Cloud upon manually stopping the execution, or receiving a execution failure signal from automation equipment.
Monitor operation execution status real-time with contextual telemetry, and transactional data from the automation equipment.
Automatically report an operation completion transaction when the automation equipment signals completion.
Automatically create a production exception in Manufacturing Cloud upon manually stopping the execution, or receiving a execution failure signal from automation equipment.

For more information, refer to the Using Oracle Internet of Things Production Monitoring Cloud Service guide.