Is it possible to Start a SFC in multiple resouces?

[Former Member]

Dears,

Is it possible to Start a SFC in multiple resouces?

ex: SFC01 qty=100

Start SFC01 in below resources at the same time,

Resource01 qty=10

Resource02 qty=20

Resource03 qty=70

so that user can calcute the resource utilization.

Thanks!

[sergiy_katerinich · Accepted solution]

No. You need to serialize it.

Regards,

Sergiy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Sergiy,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Could you please describe more detail about it, I don't understand how to use serialize?

Thanks!

[sergiy_katerinich · Accepted solution]

You need to use SFC Split activity. For each QTY, you create a separate SFC and process it at the particular resource. Afterwards, you can use SFC Merge activity to put all QTYs together to a single SFC ID.

Regards,

Sergiy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I understand what mean.

But SAPME seems did not prevent user to start a SFC in mutiple resource, but the result will be strange.

Thanks!

[alexander_teslyuk · Accepted solution]

I believe SFC may be started at several resources in case you use Simultaneous Operations. But anyway you will need to split SFC if you want to start only 'some part of this SFC' (Resource01 qty=10, Resource02 qty=20, Resource03 qty=70).

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI,

What did you mean Simultaneous Operations?

I mean I can start a SFC at multiple resources in the same operation.

SFC01 resource01 qty=10 operation01

SFC01 resource02 qty=20 operation01

SAPME did not display any result message, but I can only see the active sfc in first start resource.

Thanks!

[sergiy_katerinich · Accepted solution]

You are correct. Not sure if this way was implemented intentionally, but the mian idea is that at the same step you can use one resource at the moment.

Regards,

Sergiy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I see.

Because customer want to process a sfc in multiple resources (we can said it's sub-resource), but they don't want to split the sfc because actually they only print a barcode label of sfc, and will not print the barcode label for split child-sfc, but at the same time they want to calculate the sub-resources utilization.

Please let me know if you have any idea, thanks!

[sergiy_katerinich · Accepted solution]

Can you do this as following?

1. Start original SFC1.

2. Split SFC2 of qty=10 and SFC3 of qty=20 from SFC1 leaving its qty=70.

3. Process 3 SFCs at different resources.

4. Merge SFC2 and SFC3 in SFC1.

5. Print label for SFC1 and continue to process SFC1.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I know what mean.

Because user don't want to do split and merge, so maybe we need to implement auto split and merge after user select the resources and qty.

Thanks a lot!