Introduction to Work Centers
After working on the list of components, you must assemble the forklift in the previous exercises, you are now thinking about which machines or people to perform this work. When you do this, you decide to create new work centers and continue to use existing ones.
A work center is a location where a capacity with production resources is required to fulfill the requirements from orders. This capacity can be in the form of people or machinery. Work centers are used in task lists (routings, inspection plans, maintenance task lists, and so on) and in orders.
A work center can be a geographical location, or a particular machine in a department within a plant. A work center is assigned to a plant.
Work Center Data
The data in a work center is useful for scheduling, costing, and capacity requirements planning.
In the context of scheduling, the operating time and formulas required to calculate the operation duration are stored in the work center.
For costing, the formulas required to calculate the operation costs are stored in the work center, and the work center is assigned to a cost center.
For capacity planning, the available capacity and formulas required to calculate the capacity requirements of an operation are stored in a work center.
Default Values
Default values can be defined for routing maintenance in the work center. There is, for example: Default values for texts, the control key, or general time specifications, such as the interoperation time, or the queue time.
The control key is important. No routing operation can be created without a control key. With this key, you define whether the operation takes part in calculation, capacity planning, or scheduling.
Everything else can be waived technically.