Open ERP, a modern approach to integrated business management, Release 1.0 description of operating hours or functionality. The figure Working hours for a workcenter represents the hours from Monday to Friday, from 09:00 to 17:00 with a break of an hour from 12:00.
Figure 19.20: Working hours for a workcenter You should show a description of the workcenter and its operations. Once the database is encoded you should enter data about the production capacity of the workcenter. Depending on whether you have a machine or a person, a workcenter will be defined in cycles or hours. If it represents a set of machines and people you can use both cycles and hours at the same time. Note: A Cycle A cycle corresponds to the time required to carry out an assembly operation. The user is free to determine which is the reference operation for a given workcenter. It must be represented by the cost and elapsed time of manufacture. For example, for a printing workcenter, a cycle will be the printing of 1 page or of 1000 pages depending on the printer. To define the capacity properly it is necessary know, for each workcenter, what will be the reference operation which determines the cycle. You can then define the data relative to the capacity. Capacity per cycle (CA): determine the number of operations that can be done in parallel during a cycle. Generally the number defines the number of identical machines or people defined by the workcenter. Time for a cycle (TC): give the duration in hour for that or the operations defined by a cycle. Time before production (TS): give the wait in hours to initialise production operations. Generally this represents the machine setup time. Time after production (TN): give the delay in hours after the end of a production operation. Generally this represents
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