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- 2. What is Discrete manufacturing Discrete manufacturing is the production of distinct items. The resulting products are easily identifiable and can’t be divided. Discrete manufacturing is often characterized by individual or separate unit production. Units can be produced in low volume with very high complexity or high volumes of low complexity.
- 3. What is the difference between discrete and process manufacturing? Process manufacturing relies on creating formulas or recipes to produce a product, whereas discrete manufacturing assembles parts in a prescribed process to produce a distinct item. While discrete manufacturing creates products that are differentiated by individual units, process manufacturing does not. While discrete manufacturing produces individual units, like smartphones, process manufacturing produces indistinct units, like salt, oil, and water.
- 4. What industries is discrete manufacturing common for Machinery Automotive Smartphones Clothing Furniture Computers High Tech products Aircraft Weapons Toys
- 5. Main Features of Discrete manufacturing in AX 2012 Bill of Materials (BOM) Product Routes Resources Management Operations Production Orders Product Configuration Models
- 6. Bill of Materials (BOM) A Bill of Materials (BOM) is conventionally described as the list of components needed to make an item. Both item or a service product types can be included in a Bill of Materials. BOM can be declared in multiple versions and attached to multiple end products. Once a BOM has been created, it can be viewed and maintained using the BOM designer. The designer provides graphical drag and drop capability for editing BOMs.
- 7. Product Routes A route or a production route in Microsoft Dynamics AX brings together a sequence of steps or operations which defines a manufacturing process. A route can be defined and attached to more than one item. You can allow for variations in the production process by creating more than one route version for an item. For example, if the original route is intended for large orders and uses high-capacity machines, you can handle small production runs more economically by creating a route version that uses lower capacity machines. You can set resources requirements for each route to track if you can take on a production order on this route.
- 8. Resources Management Resources are the machinery, tools, locations, vendors and labor assigned for production. You can define a set of capabilities for each resource. You can select capacity for each resource that will help with job scheduling and master planning.
- 9. Operations An operation is a task, or a process connected with the production of an item. An operation within a route is attached to a specific work center, which defines a person, machine, tool, or vendor who is to carry out the work. As you can make sure, the Operations form contains only two parameters: Operation (operation identification) and Name (short description), that is because an operation can be assigned to different work centers. So, an operation can consume different time in different work centers. When an operation is assigned to a route, the route operation (or an operation with parameters) is created.
- 10. Production Orders Production order is a request to start the manufacture of an item. The production order contains information about what will be produced, the quantity to produce, and the planned finish date. Production orders are generated during master planning or created manually for the following reasons: 1. Generated to meet sales order demands when inventory is insufficient 2. Generated to supply BOM items as subassemblies to other items in demand 3. Created manually by authorized personnel to cover exceptional demand
- 11. Product Configuration Models Product configuration models are created to represent a generic product structure. Product configuration models are based on constraints and use Microsoft Solver Foundation. You can configure items on sales orders, sales quotations, purchase orders, and production orders. You can create some variables called attributes and Values are assigned to those variables either directly by the user or using some logic, called constraints.