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Use this form to assign properties to the different work centers. These properties are automatically copied to operations, items, and production orders that are subsequently created for that work center. You can use properties in a variety of ways. For example, you can group similar work centers so they can be scheduled simultaneously for a particular production. Or you can schedule operations with inherited properties to run in succession on a particular work center. Properties are also used with production pools.
Example
A series of productions will undergo the same painting operation, which is set up by putting color in a spray-gun. To minimize setup time, productions that are to be painted with any one particular color are grouped. If you use pools and properties together, you can set up sorting criteria so that production pools will wait for productions that have identical properties. Let's say that you have set up the pool sequence: Pool 1, Pool 2, Pool 3, and so on. Each pool groups productions that share the same properties. Before Pool 1 can proceed to Pool 2, productions with properties 1, 2, and 3 have to be run.
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Properties assigned to work centers are also tied directly to the Working time template. It is often useful to set up properties for your work centers along with setting up your calendars. |
Navigating
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The following tables provide descriptions for the controls in this form.
Tabs
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Identify the property and assign a name to it. |
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View general information about selected property. |
Fields
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Property identification. |
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Property name. |
Buttons
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Assign values to individual properties to further define them. This is an internal tool for additional information, comments, or controls on this process. You can define one or more values for a single property. |
