1. Using Manufacturing
  2. Overview of Oracle Manufacturing

Overview of Oracle Manufacturing

Introduction

Manufacturing delivers core discrete and process manufacturing capabilities in the cloud that allow you to efficiently set up, manage, execute, and cost your production operations. It supports in-house manufacturing activities of standard products for both discrete and process manufacturing. In addition, for discrete manufacturing, it allows configured products to be executed to plan or to order, and supports contract manufacturing of standard products executed to plan or to order. It supports discrete and process manufacturing scenarios where one or more operations of a work order are outsourced to a supplier who provides specialized manufacturing services. You can run both process manufacturing and discrete manufacturing in the same plant. The enhanced capabilities to support batch production of multiple co-products and by-products provide the foundation for mixed-mode manufacturing in the same plant. It supports project-specific manufacturing execution. Manufacturing complements other Oracle Cloud applications in providing a comprehensive and complete supply chain solution for discrete and process manufacturing companies.

Key Capabilities to Support Discrete and Process Manufacturing

Oracle Manufacturing and Oracle Cost Management provide a breadth of capabilities that allow you to do the following:

Set Up Manufacturing Plant Data

Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing empowers manufacturing engineers with web-based interface tools to build a foundation of manufacturing plant data and design the discrete and process manufacturing processes for items. Additionally, the application offers intuitive visualization for ease of use.

Manufacturing enables you to quickly define the necessary manufacturing setup data of your plant hierarchy. It helps you establish process standards with a standardized data model for production operations, which can be adapted to changing business processes and market conditions. The manufacturing plant data includes the following:

  • Manufacturing Plant: Defines an organization where manufacturing setup data is specified, manufacturing processes are run, and materials management is supported.

  • Manufacturing Calendar: Defines a production calendar to represent plant working times that includes work days, shifts, and exceptions.

  • Plant Parameters and Profile Options: Associates a manufacturing calendar to the plant, and set up parameters and profile options to determine the behavior of work definition, work order, and work execution in a plant.

  • Work Areas: Defines work areas to represent locations in a plant. Each work area is comprised of one or more work centers.

  • Production Resources: Defines equipment or labor resources and resource instances used in production, and the corresponding resource rates. Define resource as automation equipment to represent a robot or an industrial equipment to automatically perform a work order operation.

    Note: Resource rates are defined in Oracle Cost Management.

  • Work Centers: Defines work centers, such as departments or production lines where an operation is performed. Work centers comprise production resources for which the capacity and availability information is maintained.

  • Standard Operations: Defines a predefined library of standardized in-house or supplier operations and their resources and usages, in order to add to work definitions and work orders.

In addition, Manufacturing enables you to do the following:

  • Design the production process on a work definition for discrete manufacturing and process manufacturing work methods using an advanced graphical editing tool.

  • Define a work definition for discrete production where the product is a standard item or configured item that's based on an ATO model.

  • Define a work definition for a process with co-products and by-products. The process can complete multiple co-products and by-products at any in-house or supplier operation.

  • Print a work definition report and share it internally within the organization, or externally with contract manufacturers for discrete manufacturing.

  • Calculate manufacturing lead times for a product in discrete manufacturing and for all outputs in process manufacturing.

  • Coordinate engineering changes and revisions to item structures to the corresponding work definitions facilitated either by automation or notification.

  • Create and update standard operations using Applications Development Framework Desktop Integrator (ADFdi) or using REST services.

  • Associate automation equipment resource to a work definition operation and associate a program file name and equipment parameters file to it.

  • Create and update work definitions using file-based data import, ADFdi (currently supported for only discrete manufacturing work method), or using REST services.

  • Automatically create work definitions applicable in kitting and light assembly manufacturing environments that don't require shop floor control, in discrete manufacturing.

  • Capture electronic signatures and generate electronic records while managing standard operations and work definitions.

  • Obtain a real time view of machine data collected on the shop floor through a drill down from the Resource Instances section of the Edit Resource page.

  • Capture audit trail for manufacturing work definitions, work orders, and standard operations created, updated, and deleted through the user interface, ADFdi spreadsheet, file-based data import (FBDI), or REST services.

Monitor and Manage Production

Manufacturing provides several capabilities that enable production supervisors to effectively monitor and manage production activities. All of these are designed and optimized for use on a tablet, enabling users to take action while on the move. The following infolets in the Overview page provide insight into key production related metrics at plant, work area, or work center levels:

  • Work Orders

  • Rework (for discrete manufacturing work orders)

  • Open Exceptions

  • Operations Scheduled Versus Actual

  • WIP Inspections

  • Operations

  • IoT Insights: OEE

  • IoT Machines In-Use

  • IoT Machines Idle

  • IoT Machines Down

  • IoT Dashboard Metrics

You can view the IoT infolets on the Work Execution work area overview page, only if your manufacturing plant is enabled for synchronization with IoT Production Monitoring.

Manufacturing provides production supervisors and production operators single click access to drill from the metrics into the details, and take action to resolve issues.

Tip: The Open Exceptions, WIP Inspections, and IoT infolets are applicable only at the plant level.

Manufacturing enables production supervisors to manage plant, work center resource working times by defining shift and resource exceptions. Manufacturing helps in managing work order-based production with in-house and supplier operations by allowing you to do the following:

  • Create and manage standard work orders using a work definition as a means to initiate regular production.

  • Discrete manufacturing enables you to:

    • Create and manage nonstandard work orders with or without a work definition, typically used for nonstandard production activities, such as prototyping.

    • Create and manage work orders to rework or transform products.

    • Create a standard, nonstandard, rework, and transform work order with project details in an organization that's enabled for inventory tracking by project.

    • View and replace substitute items in a work order.

    • Enforce serialization-enabled manufacturing by associating predefined serial numbers to work orders.

    • Manage work order supplies in advanced fulfillment scenarios, such as back-to-back or configure to order, by providing visibility into the corresponding reservation details.

    • Discrete manGain insight into real time work order execution through a drill down from the Edit Work Order page.

    • Use shop floor data to automatically report operation transactions.

    • Use the real time metrics from IoT that provides immediate visibility of shop floor operations for you to make better decisions.

    • Focus on key aspects of your shop floor to help maximize capacity, increase throughput, and improve quality.

  • Process manufacturing enables you to:

    • Create a batch or work order based on a process name or the primary output.

    • Scale the batch based on input or output items.

    • Create a standard work order with project details in an organization that's enabled for inventory tracking by project.

    • Report completion of co-products and by-products.

    • View and replace substitute items in a work order.
  • Generate electronic records and capture electronic signatures while releasing work orders.

  • Perform forward, backward, or midpoint scheduling in an unconstrained mode.

  • Configure material availability rules and analyze material shortages to effectively manage work orders.

  • Calculate material availability for work orders considering available substitutes and replace components with recommended substitutes from material availability work bench.

  • Perform mass actions to update status, change work order priorities, and print work order reports for multiple work orders.

  • Capture additional information by using descriptive flexfields.

  • Review and manage work order attachments, such as standard operation procedures, and quality specifications.

  • Print work order traveler, components list, and product labels.

  • Create and update work orders through the file-based data import infrastructure using predefined macro-enabled spreadsheet templates.

  • Manage and resolve production exceptions related to in-house and supplier operations. Capture electronic signatures and generate electronic records while closing production exceptions.

  • Trigger automatic creation of purchasing documents and shipment lines for supplier operations.

  • Review and manage supplier operations and handle demand and supply side changes in outside processing.

  • Procure materials directly for works orders.

Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) for Manufacturing offers real-time, self-service reporting, directly off manufacturing transactions. It provides six different manufacturing subject areas used by production supervisors to analyze production performance, and they're as follows:

  • Work Order Performance

  • Material Usage

  • Resource Usage

  • Actual Production

  • Production Exceptions

  • Purchased Item Usage

Execute Production

Manufacturing offers robust capabilities for work order-based execution for discrete and process manufacturing, and orderless execution for discrete manufacturing. With interfaces designed and optimized for use on a tablet, it provides rich user experience for production operators. Additionally, the application facilitates information driven execution by providing insight into production information with several visual cues allowing users to take appropriate actions. It helps improve productivity of shop floor personnel through simplified reporting, and ability to enter data using scanning devices.

Through a simple, intuitive, easy to use dispatch list, it provides a single place for production operators to do the following:

  • Review in-house work order operations sequenced to be worked upon for their specific work center and shift

  • Review work order details

  • Report operation transactions, such as complete, scrap, reject, and material and resource usages

  • Print work order traveler and product labels

  • Indicate when the production activity for a work order operation has started or stopped, and calculate the runtimes for a work order operation

  • Resequence certain operations in work execution that are defined as resequenceable in a work order
  • Navigate to the digital twin view of automation equipment to review contextual telemetry data and real-time execution status of a work order operation

Manufacturing also helps you to:

  • Minimize user interactions by providing the ability to record material, resource, and operation transactions in just two clicks.

  • Review work order and operation attachments, and enter additional details, such as lot and serial information, if required to complete a transaction. In addition, you can capture additional information required for reporting production transactions by using descriptive flexfields.

  • Execute work order operations using automatic equipment through Oracle Product Monitoring.

  • Pick materials for work orders and create movement requests to move materials to specified supply subinventory, or issue materials directly to work orders. You can integrate Oracle Manufacturing with Warehouse Management System to pick material for work orders and execute movement requests in WMS.

  • Ensure timely availability of materials for production and maintenance. You can reserve materials for manufacturing work orders, optionally move them to your staging area, and continue with the reservation of the work order.

  • Report production transactions by specific product serial numbers that are pre-associated to work orders. This is to comply with serialization-enabled manufacturing. This is currently supported for only discrete manufacturing.

  • Report manual or automatic outputs at any operation.

  • Discrete manufacturing enables you to:

    • Report inspection results and automatically decide on disposition based on inspection results while reporting an operation transaction against a work order operation.

  • Initiate manual inspection from the dispatch list. You can inspect the operation or the end item. Inline and manual inspections are available for both discrete and process manufacturing work orders.

  • Automatically or manually report material and resource usages. You can report material and resource usages based on the work order requirements or on a dynamic basis based on actual usage. For serialization-enabled discrete manufacturing, you can report material usages in reference to specific product serial numbers.

  • Automatically complete work order operations upon receiving completion signal from automation equipment through IoT Production Monitoring.

  • Report operation, material and resource transactions for a project-speciifc work order.

  • Report production activities without the need to create work orders. You can report orderless completion, or scrap of an item with reference to a work definition. This is currently supported for only discrete manufacturing.

  • Report orderless transactions with project details in an organization that's enabled for inventory tracking by project.

  • Review of work order-based or orderless production transaction history. The transaction details are displayed in a reverse chronological order.

  • Report production exceptions and notify key stakeholders for resolution.

    Note: Production exceptions are also created automatically by IoT Production Monitoring to notify exception conditions related to execution of a work order operation at automation equipment.

  • Import material, resource, and operation transactions through the file-based data import infrastructure. This is possible with the provision of predefined macro-enabled spreadsheet templates.

  • Import work order, material, resource, and operation transactions, and start and stop operation times into manufacturing by using REST services.

  • Capture and view the genealogy data for all work order operation transactions and work order material transactions related to lot control and serial control enabled items.

  • Report and manage production exceptions.

  • Capture electronic signatures and generate electronic records while reporting production transactions.

  • Support dual units of measure in operation transactions, material transactions, output transactions, and orderless transactions. Report materials and products in dual units of measure through the discrete and process manufacturing transactions that update on-hand inventory and conditionally genealogy, if items that are enabled with lot control and genealogy tracking.

Use Smart Operations

Oracle Smart Operations is an Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management initiative that increases operational performance and improves the manufacturing personnel's ability to make intelligent and timely decisions. Smart Operations combine real-time operational data with business data and digital technologies to simplify operations, deliver recommendations, and enable automation across supply chain and manufacturing execution.

See the Execute Production chapter for more details on Smart Operations for the production operator.

Analyze and Control Production Costs

Oracle Cost Management provides robust support for planning, cost accounting, and analysis of manufacturing costs for the discrete or process manufacturing work method. It enables users to determine which work definitions to use in costing, efficiently enter material and resource costs with a spreadsheet import, perform cost rollup and gives a flexible means to cost work orders costing by supporting all the costing methods. Costing methods include standard, actual, and FIFO (first-in, first-out).

Cost Management provides a view of costs by work order, or breakdown of the costs by operation and cost element, and work order variances, and helps identify the manufactured items that aren't in compliance with defined plant cost standards.

For more information about manufacturing accounting, refer to the Oracle Supply Chain Management Using Supply Chain Managerial Accounting guide.