Production Management Configuration Process

Steps in this topic present an overview of steps to configure production management. For long production events, it may be desirable to monitor event progress. Refer to Periodic Event Dimension Update.

Unit Type.
Select Production Statuses for each Unit.
Define the valid transitions from one Production Status to another for each Unit.
Set Production Metrics for Downtime, Efficiency, Production, and Waste.
Define Inventory Locations if Unit Type of Inventory is used.
Define the Raw Material Inputs for each Unit.
For each Raw Material Input, determine if Events can be consumed on multiple Units at the same time. If not set the Lock Materials During Consumption.
For each Raw Material Input, set up Bill of Material Control Filtering if required.
For each Raw Material Input, define the Production Units that can feed into each Input. These Units make up the Valid Input Sources.
For each Raw Material Input Production Unit feed, define the Valid Input statuses that can be fed into this Input for those Units defined as Valid Input Sources to the Input.
Determine Events to be used. Research the automation and signals available to trigger production events, product movement, and production tracking and by selecting and configuring the following required Models:
Production Event Models
Movement Models
Genealogy Model
Consumption Models
Schedule Change Models

Build the Production Execution Paths

Set Path Name and Path Code.
Enable Line Production Counting if required for reporting purposes.
Enable creation of Child Orders if required to split and run Orders on multiple paths at the same time.
Define Units that will be a Production Point.
Define Units that will be a Schedule Point.
Set the order of the Units to correspond with the flow of product through those Units on each path.
Define each potential Raw Material Input that can be fed into a Production Unit on this path. This must be done for each Unit that is defined on an Execution Path.
For each Raw Material Input, determine if Events can be consumed on multiple Units at the same time. If not set the Lock Materials During Consumption. These settings override the default Unit Properties.
For each Raw Material Input, set up Bill of Material Control Filtering if required. These settings override the default Unit Properties.
For each Raw Material Input, define the Production Units that can feed into each Input. These Units make up the Valid Input Sources. These settings override the default Unit Properties.
For each Raw Material Input Production Unit feed, define the Valid Input statuses that can be fed into this Input for those Units defined as Valid Input Sources to the Input. These settings override the default Unit Properties.
Select the Products that are valid to run on a specific Execution Path.
Determine the allowable Schedule Status Transitions that can be used on a specific Execution Path.
Set the number of Schedule Statuses of a specific type to allow.
Define the Schedule Statuses that will utilize the Auto Promote feature.
Determine the Schedule Status that will be the default used for sorting in the Schedule Display.
Define the Schedule Alarm Types and Threshold Values to be used to set up alarming for tracking Schedule quantities.
Add any Customized Schedule fields that are required to be used to display, track or calculate special values for a Schedule. These fields are User Defined Properties.

Determine which Process Variables are needed to capture and summarize data on each Production Unit. Determine if any manually entered Variables are required to capture additional data. Build any Calculations that combine and/or summarize data from other Variables.