Manufacturing setup

Before you can write a bill of material with operations, set up the places, machines, people and processes it will refer to. Do them in this order.

Step	Screen	Menu
1	Work Centers	Manufacturing → Work Center
2	Machines	Production → Machine Assets
3	Labor Roles	Manufacturing → Labor Roles
4	Production Jobs	Manufacturing → Production Job
5	Holiday Calendar	Manufacturing → Holiday Calendar
6	Downtime Reasons	Manufacturing → Downtime Reasons

Work centers

A work center is an area of the plant with its own running cost, such as a CNC cell or the assembly line.

Click Add Work Center.

Field	Notes
Center Code, Center Name	Required
Machine Cost Per Hour	Cannot be negative
Overhead %	Cannot be negative
Available Hours Per Day	Required, at most 24. Used when scheduling
Department, Location, Description	Optional

Machines

Click Add Machine, fill in the form and click Create Machine.

Field	Notes
Machine Code, Machine Name	Required
Status	ACTIVE, UNDER_MAINTENANCE, BREAKDOWN or OUT_OF_SERVICE
Work Center	Required — the work center the machine belongs to
Cost Per Hour	Required — used to cost operations run on this machine
Description	Optional

After saving you land on the machine's own page, which shows its details, Production Logs and Status History, with buttons Edit, Log Event, Add Log and Delete.

Labor roles

A labor role is a kind of worker with an hourly cost: operator, setter, welder, inspector.

Click Add Labor Role: Role Code, Role Name, Cost Per Hour (all required), the Active switch and a Description.

Production jobs

A production job is a process in your catalogue — turning, drilling, welding, powder coating, inspection. Each operation on a bill of material points to one.

Click Add Job.

Field	Notes
Job Code, Job Name	Required
Active	Switch off to retire a job
Default Setup Time (min)	Copied into operations that use this job
Default Run Time Per Unit (min)	Copied into operations that use this job
Default Piece Rate (₹ / each)	For work paid by the piece
Piece Unit	What is counted: hole, kg, test
Description	Optional

:::info Piece rates If a job has a piece rate, an operation that uses it can be costed as Rate × Quantity, for example ₹2 per hole × 5 holes. Change the rate here and every operation that uses the job is re-costed. See Bill of materials. :::

Holiday calendar

The calendar tells the scheduler which days the plant works.

Click New Calendar: Calendar Name, Active, Description and the weekly-off days. Then open the calendar to see its month grid.

• + Holiday adds a company holiday: date, name and whether it is a full day.
• + Override changes a single day: WORKING makes a holiday or weekly off a working day, OFF makes a normal working day a day off. Give the reason.

Downtime reasons

These are the reasons an operator can pick when reporting a stopped machine. Ten are provided, such as MB01 Machine Breakdown and POW01 Power Failure. Each is marked PLANNED or UNPLANNED.

Click Add Reason to add your own: Reason Code, Description and Category.