Lorsque les entreprises industrielles utilisent la production discrète dans leur processus, il y a toujours

When factories work using process manufacturing, there is always several things to take into account

Thank you for sharing these tips, Evert. I have a scenario where same machine can process the multiple production orders at a time. In fact this machine has 13 input lines and these can be shared across the production orders -i .e. 3 lines for order 1 and 10 lines for order 2 and these lines run in parallel. No of lines should get allocated to orders as per production order needs. I tried to setup the all 13 lines as an individual resources and keeping them in a single resource group. On the route I defined resource requirement at 'Resource group' level and defined the number of lines required in 'number of resources field'. System picks up the two machines and schedules them in parallel when order is job scheduled. So far so good. Now when I create another order to be delivered on the same day (and time) and job schedules it, system always picks up the first two resources (from the resource group) and schedules the job after the current jobs gets finished instead I would want machine to always pick up free lines first. Is there a way to achieve this?

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Question on #3 (Secondary Operation), it's noted that early AX 2012 kernel versions don't support the [Op#,Operation,Priority] as a key. Does anyone know at which version this changed?

We are running 6.3.1000.309 and still need to put in an alternative Operation Code, which is kind of a pain...

I can answer myself :) the secondary operation takes the efficiency percentage from the assigned resource and not from the resource assigned to the primary operation.  same if a resource group is used on the secondary operation.  At least this is what I can deduce from my tests

Hi. Great post and thanks for sharing! Re Secondary operations: it is mentioned that the secondary operation takes the times of the primary operation.  But what about the efficiency percentage of the primary operation?  Is this "inherited" as well by the secondary operation? Thanks!

Satya, the shifts are not a concept in AX. You would define working hours in the calendar to make sure that the total hours of all shifts together over 24 hours are represented correctly. but that is about it.

Wladimir, there is a field "load%" in the Resource Req tab of the Routing that determines how much of the cost, that is normally the multiplication of nr of hours and hourly rate, has to be taken for this routing step. This would be appropriate when one operator is running many machines. Maybe also for your example..

Royalbuddy, parallel scheduling can be done with a network routing. Without that, one can do maximum overlap of operations. And there is a third way where we use Job Scheduling, we define one operation in the routing that is scheduled on a resource group,  but we enter "number of resources" as a number greater than 1 (in the resource req tab of the routing). Job Scheduling will now create a number of jobs, one for each resource in the group, that are scheduled in parallel.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I do have a question regarding point 2. How to define shifts?

Profile will only work for the workers. Is there something that can be used for machines and other resources?