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Materials, Standard Operations, Routings - The Materials setting

Materials allow you to determine the components that will be used in each stage in the Production process (and the assembled Items if any that will result from each stage). A "Material" is simply a name for the basic type of Input or Output Item or task, but it is also the mechanism that connects the Items with the Standard Operations (i.e. with the stages in the Production process).

To work with the Materials setting, first ensure you are in the Production module, and then click the [Settings] button in the Master Control panel or use the Ctrl-S/⌘-S keyboard shortcut to open the 'Settings' list. Double-click 'Materials' in the list. The 'Materials: Browse' window lists the Materials that have already been entered: double-click one to modify it or click [New] to create a new record. Enter a Code and a Name and, when the record is complete, click the [Save] button in the Button Bar to save changes and close it using the close box, or click the close box if you don't want to save changes.

Illustrated below is a Recipe in which the Input and Output Items have all been assigned Materials:

This Recipe will require three stages (i.e. three Operations): welding, painting and assembly. This is the Standard Operation for the assembly stage:

The assembly stage will use the "NUTS_AND_BOLTS" and "FINAL_ASSEMBLY" Materials. The Input and Output Items with these Materials in the Recipe will therefore be assigned to this stage.

When you enter the Recipe in a Production and create Production Operations from that Production, this is the equivalent Production Operation:

This Production Operation allows you to remove the nuts and bolts from stock when you use them, and the final Item will be added to stock at the same time.

If you need to use any of the nuts and bolts at another time, e.g. during the welding stage, you will need to separate them in the Recipe (and therefore in the Production) by entering the "welding nuts and bolts" and the "assembly nuts and bolts" on separate rows even if they have the same Item Number, and you will need to mark them using a different Material. For example, you might need "NUTS_AND_BOLTS_A" and "NUTS_AND_BOLTS_B" as Materials, or, to be clearer, "NUTS_AND_BOLTS_WELD" and "NUTS_AND_BOLTS_ASSEM". This will ensure the correct nuts and bolts in the correct quantities will be used and removed from stock at the appropriate stage in the process.

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Settings in the Production module:

• Introduction
  

• Account Usage Production
  

• Auto Production Items
  

• Item Effectivity
  

• Machine Groups
  

• Materials, Standard Operations and Routings, including:
  
  • Standard Operations
    

  • Materials
    

  • Routings
  
  
• Number Series - Production Operations
  

• Number Series - Production Orders
  

• Number Series - Productions
  

• Production Settings
  

• Routings
  

• Standard Operations
  

• Standard Problems
  

• Work Shifts

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