Routing and Work Center

[Former Member]

Hi,

We have stumbled on a problem when setting up routing..

For a tester operation (TST) we have several resources (TST001,TST002,TST003,TST004,TST005).

Product A can use just resource TST001 in operation TST

Product B can use either TST001 or TST002 or TST003

Product C can use any of the 5 resources TST001 or TST002 or TST003 or TST004 or TST005

Product D can use either TST001 or TST004 or TST005.

We first thought of creating a lot of work centers and entering the correct Work center in the routing step

properties for each product. However one work center seems to only be able to be part of one parent work center.

Any ideas how this can be solved? The reason why we want to do this is just informational purposes, so the operator

knows which alternatives is available for each product.

Br,

Johan Nordebrink

[alexander_teslyuk · Accepted solution]

Hello Johan,

If it is needed for informational purposes only, you may set up a Work Instruction at that Opeartion. So, operator will be informed on alternatives.

Regards,

Alex.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Alex,

Unfortunately that is not an option since the information is different depending on the product.

In my example there was just a few products but in real life it could be that 2000 products go through

the same operation.

We can not use the "Special instructions" field since there we want to write other important operator messages.

Is our only other choice to use a custom data field for a routing step?

Br,

Johan

[Former Member]

Work Instructions can be attached to a Material AND an Operation. This would give you the ability to define unique work instructions for your product and operation.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for the answers. However we have decided to go for using a custom data field instead.

Br,

Johan