Process manufacturing software
Intro – Manufacturing types
Process manufacturers build something that cannot be taken apart, technically you can take the mix out of the container and reuse the container, but you can’t take the ingredients out of the finished goods produced. This makes the process manufacturers ‘process’ or formula based. Process Manufacturing – Software Implementation Example
- Load material: wax bars (1kg)
- Wax heating: melting the wax
- Aromatizing: adding fragrance oils (0.1gr) and color
- Shaping: shaping wax in 3D molds (100gr each approx.)
- Colling: Cooling down in rest bins
- Packing: Packing in 5 pcs box
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| Transformation of raw materials during the manufacturing process |
What is PHANTOM BOM?
Phantom Bill of Material (BOM) -is a subassembly that is assembled only to be included in another assembly. It is a method for moving around a group of components under one item number. A phantom represents an item that is physically built, but not stocked, before being used in the next step or level of manufacturing. This permits MRP and APS logic to drive requirements straight through the phantom item to its components.
Synonyms: blow-through, transient bill of material, pseudo bill of material.
Paraphrased from the APICS Dictionary, Eighth Edition
We will show a quick overview of the process form the Sales Order to delivery manufactured product.
In the right menu, we can see the GENERATE button. By clicking generate, we will launch the ERPAG Manufacturing Project.
For each phantom, BOM ERPAG will create a separate work order under the Manufacturing project.
In each card you can see:
- output items-RESULT
- Input items-used sub-assemblies and raw materials in order to get the output items
- Work operations used during the manufacturing process
In this way, in one pass you can generate all work orders and trigger automatic purchase mechanism -Fulfillment engine.
The system automatically compares available stocks against WO quantities and orders missing qty.
Using the bulti in multicurrency and muti supplier engine, procurement is handled with ease.
Once missing parts enter the warehouse system will notify a user that items for the WO are available.
Using the ERPAG mobile app you can time track each step of the process and capture costings as it happens.
In general discrete manufacturing and process manufacturing are totally different challenges from the software development perspective. For very complex cases as enterprise business, one should go for the vertically specialized manufacturing software.
On another hand, on a small scale there similar. The simplified model can get a great advantage to small business. Small business can mix discrete and process manufacturing and in that way capture and track the manufacturing process from start to end.
Not only that you can benefit from the accelerating process in your company, but you can do it with an affordable software solution, without overwhelming organization with implementation and process migration.
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