What Is a Work Center?

Working Center refers to a production operation unit that directly changes the form or nature of materials. In the ERP system, the data of the work center is the core component of the process route, and it is one of the basic data for computing material requirements planning and capacity requirements planning. Such as an assembly line, CNC processing machine tools, etc. A work center is a resource, and its resources can be either humans or machines. A work center consists of one or more direct production personnel, one or several machines with the same functions, and the entire workshop can also be regarded as a work center. Different machine types are set up in the workshop. It is the basic unit of process scheduling and CRP capacity calculation.

Work Center

Working Center refers to direct change

A work center is a production resource used to produce products, including machines, people, and equipment. It is a general term for various production or processing units. The work center belongs to the scope of capability, that is, the scope of planning, but not the scope of fixed assets or equipment management. A work center can be a piece of equipment, a group of equipment with the same function, an automatic production line, a shift group, an assembly area, or some closed workshop that produces a single product. for

The content of the work center should include the code, name, and department of the work center. In addition, there should be the following two types:

The work center is represented by one or more machines and equipment with basically the same functions, one or more production operators of the same type, or one or more job sites with basically the same functions. The combination of venues. In the ERP system, the work center is not only a basic production operation means, but also a basic production operation organization, or a production operation.

The work center serves three purposes.

(1) As a balancing task

The rationality of the work center is to achieve

Work center capacity refers to the ability of the work center to complete production tasks, which can be measured using the output per unit time. Different types of enterprises often use different output units to measure capacity. For example, process-oriented petrochemical companies often use the unit of time to represent capacity; the textile industry uses the unit of time to represent capacity;

In the ERP system, the work center is subdivided according to different machine types, for example, the mold department is regarded as a work center WCGM, of which 8

The work center needs to manage the following data: (1) Department code: indicate which department the work center belongs to, if it is outsourced

Work center capacity includes: overtime capacity and overtime capacity.

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The load of the work center includes the load of the existing manufacturing order and the load of the planned manufacturing order.

Manufacturing order load: Completing a manufacturing order will go through multiple processes, and it will take time to complete each process-direct worker hours or machine hours. This is the load of the work center.

Load of each process (unit: hour) = quantity to be completed * processing time of the process (unit: second) / 3600 + preparation time of the process (unit: hour).

Load of manufacturing order = Sum of loads of each process. For example, the load required to complete the 020 process of the manufacturing bill number W0307020047 = 5604 * 10.83s / 3600 = 16.86h

By adjusting the capacity and load of the work center, you can achieve balance with each other.