Re: Parallel processes in Manufacturing.

[Jacopo Cappellato]

Hi Brijesh,

On Jul 22, 2008, at 7:42 PM, brijesh m wrote:

Hi friends,


    A------>B----->D----->F---->Finished Product
    |                               ^
    |------>C----->E--------|

I am trying to configure the below routing having routing tasks A,B,C,D,E and then finished product got produced. Actually my main aim is to explore how OFBiz handles the parallel processes which are very much the case in manufacturing units. I have tried some tricks but didn't able to get it. The thing is that in routing you can't add two routing task with same sequence number which restrains the below routing scenario. Please have a look at it and suggest the solution I am sure many among us have encountered this issue at some point of time.

Let's say that the finished product id is "XYZ"

You could define the bill of materials of XYZ in the following way:

XYZ
|


And its routing would be just F

The routing for XYZ1 would be: A+B+D
The routing for XYZ2 would be: A+C+E

You create three production runs:

* one for XYZ1
* one for XYZ2


Hope it helps,

Jacopo

My suggestion, and this is what some of our (HotWax Media) customer actually do, is to reorganize your bill of materials and routings in the following way. |_______> semi finished product (or wip aka work in process product) XYZ1 |_______> semi finished product (or wip aka work in process product) XYZ2 * one for XYZ that depends on the above two (i.e. it is executed after the above two are completed) PS: if you define the products XYZ1 and 2 as WIP (productTypeId) and you create the production run for XYZ the system will automatically create the three production runs and their dependencies.

Thanks
Brijesh M

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