Work Centers/Resources

The machines, tools people and vendors which a company may use within a manufacturing process are defined as Work Centers which are created from within the Basic module.

Work Centers of a similar type or capability can be grouped together in order to form a pool of resource capacity which the system can use when planning production. Each work center is related to a calendar which defines the availability of the resource throughout the working year, thus allowing working time to be tracked. A work center which belongs to a group can inherit the properties of the group, thus saving time and effort in setup and maintenance of the data.

Financial postings related to production processes can be made and will be associated to a specific work center, thereby allowing financial reporting by work center or work center group.

If a production process is sub-contracted to an external supplier then you can define a work center as such and, as we’ll see later in the Routes and Operations section, the sub-contracted process step can be attached to this Vendor type work center.

The four types of work center are :

• Machine
  The most common type of work center, where one or more machines may be defined.
• Tool
  Tools that are used within a manufacturing process should be defined as this type
• Vendor
  Define Sub-contractors as being of type Vendor
• Human Resource
  Any work carried out by people or teams should be defined for later attachment to a route operation

Key Tables

• WrkCtrTable – Work Centers
• WrkCtrDateCalendar -Work Center Calendar
• WrkCtrCapRes – Work center capacity reservations
• WrkCtrParameters – Work center scheduling

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