What this is
Build covers the whole path from an engineering recipe to a finished product in stock. Every step has a screen in the left menu. The menu has six groups.
| Group | Screens |
|---|---|
| Production | Production home, Production orders, Scheduling board, Material planning |
| Engineering | Make items, Bills of materials, Routings |
| Floor | Work centres, Station, Andon board |
| Quality and trace | Quality, Trace |
| Reports | Reports |
| Settings | Settings |
The flow
- The engineer releases a BOM and a routing for the item.
- The planner creates a production order, or accepts a proposal from material planning.
- The planner checks Clear to build and clicks Release.
- Build sends one request to the store. The store reserves the material and moves it to the kit area or to line side.
- The operator starts an operation at the station, scans material, reports good and scrap quantities, and finishes.
- The last operation, the one that reports output, puts the finished product into stock through Logistics.
- The planner closes the order. Build returns or scraps the unused material and makes the cost final.
Words used in Build
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Production order | An instruction to make a quantity of one item at one place by a due date. |
| Operation | One step of a production order, done at one work centre. |
| Work centre | A group of machines, or a manual work area, where operations run. |
| Routing | The list of operations that make one item. |
| BOM | Bill of materials: the components of one item. |
| Revision | A version of a BOM or a routing. A released revision never changes. |
| Pick | A component that the store brings to the order before the work starts. |
| Backflush | A component that Build takes from line side when the operator reports quantities. |
| Floor stock | A component that Build never issues. |
| Phantom | A BOM line that stands for a sub-assembly. At release the order shows its parts instead. |
| Line side | A storage area next to a work centre. It holds the parts that the operation backflushes. |
| Station | A shared tablet on the floor, signed in by a supervisor. |
| Traveller | The code that goes with an order and its operations, for example PRD-000123/10. |
| NCR | Non-conformance report: a record of a fault, what was done with the stock, and why. |
| Disposition | A decision about faulty stock: use as is, rework, scrap or return to vendor. |
| MRP | Material requirements planning: the planning run that proposes what to make, buy or move. |
| OEE | Overall equipment effectiveness: availability times performance times quality. |
Defence words
The defence setup uses other words for some things. The screens work in the same way.
| Commercial | Defence |
|---|---|
| Production order | Job order |
| Operator | Technician |
| NCR, non-conformance report | DR, deficiency report |
| Customer, customer reference | Customer unit, tasking reference |
| Made to order | Made to order (tasking) |
This documentation uses the commercial words.
What Build does not do
- Build does not use artificial intelligence. Each proposal, late flag and check names the rule that made it.
- Build does not post stock itself. Only Logistics posts stock.
- The station keeps its actions and sends them again until the server answers. Long offline work is not available.
- Build has no electronic signatures for batch release.