Anyone here deal with production line planning and monitoring apps?
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Unless you have a few hundred million dollars i wouldn't expect you to compete with the Big Boys or even the medium level systems. It is amazing though the things that can pop into your head for ideas when you look at these systems, particularly the videos. Nothing more frustrating than sitting with a blank sheet of paper (or whiteboard) pondering what to do, and just need that initial ideas to kickstart the brain.
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DaveAuld wrote:
It is amazing though the things that can pop into your head for ideas when you look at these systems, particularly the videos.
The ideas that pop into my head without watching anything are pretty impressive.
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You are looking at what is known as a Manufacturing Execution System (MES). Any manufacturing software would have an application module called MES. This used to be known as a Shop Floor Control System. The fundamental concept is that any work-order to produce a product flows through a series of work centers. At each work center, a certain quantity X enters the work center to be worked on and a quantity Y is the output. The difference, X-Y, is the amount that is scrapped because it is damaged. some portion of (X-Y) may be recovered thru re-work but the rest is just thrown on to the waste heap. At each work center, you also want to note down Time of Entry and Time of Exit so that you know how much time was spent. You may also add additional raw material at some work centers. The time spent, the number of workers at the work center, the raw materials added, the semi-worked products brought in, etc., are all used to determine the cost-addition at each work center. Depending on the type of factory, the work center equipment may produce some of these information and maybe interfaced to the data collection equipment. In many instances, at least some information may have to be manually input by the operator. You may want to read up on Shop Floor Control System.
I'm reading alight, and loving it, thanks, but a quick one. What is the term for the process whereby a work centre executes all work orders for the same output item? E.g. a work order is for x plastic bottles, but the parameters that describe how a work centre produces 'plastic bottles' are what? A 'work centre process'?
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I'm reading alight, and loving it, thanks, but a quick one. What is the term for the process whereby a work centre executes all work orders for the same output item? E.g. a work order is for x plastic bottles, but the parameters that describe how a work centre produces 'plastic bottles' are what? A 'work centre process'?
Why not call it "Activity"? During cost analysis, you do Activity Based Costing (ABC) based on the activity performed at each work center.
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Why not call it "Activity"? During cost analysis, you do Activity Based Costing (ABC) based on the activity performed at each work center.
Ah yes, this thread has brought me so many reminders of when I worked on SAP. Yes, so an activity is performed at a work centre in accordance with a work order? BTW, the guy who proposes this project broke it to me (haha, 'broke') that they don't want to pay me for it, so all future discussion is purely academic and we are 100% safe from falling into a programming question. :) They are offering me 15% of profits while I do dev for them, but nothing for the months and maybe years before we have proper profit, and no share in the IP! :mad: