Item Definition
This is where you strengthen your design and production cycle, by specifying how an item is made or assembled, what it is made from, how long it should take and what tooling, plant or other resources are required. Two types of definition are used: standard definition for specifying products that are identical (or virtually identical) every time they are made; and production definition for designing 'same as but different' and 'one off' products or projects. These definitions are used for predicting costs and planning your purchasing, sub-contracting and manufacturing activity.
Item Definition is configurable for businesses of all types, from engineer-to-order through to make-to-order and make-to-stock, and is equally effective in a one-off, batch or semi-continuous environment. Traditional Bill of Materials and Routing approaches are combined, to reflect real-time manufacturing. Unlimited text can be attached to each part of your definition, ensuring that suppliers, work centres and Quality Assurance teams understand what is expected. The system provides a single source of data for your staff to work from and a superb range of practical features, including:
- Easy links to CAD or other applications
- Concurrent engineering approach: enabling purchase, design and manufacture to occur in parallel
- Full revision controls and traceability
- Trial kitting, to see if an order can be produced
- Phantoms, global changes and easy duplication
- Single and multi-level 'explosions'
- Attach materials to work centre, for in-progress backflushing
- Quick navigation of bill: across levels and up/down to other levels
- Tooling and plant database
- Flexible capacity and load by day
- Calculate lead time from routing
- Multiple rates for labour and overheads
- Multiple routings for each item
- Flexible cost roll-up on bills and routing
- Unlimited number of operations with set-up, run and queue times
