Work center is an organization unit where manufacturing activities are performed.A product as a whole may or may not be completed from a single work center.Manufacturing activity or Operations are carried out at different Work Centers depending up on the type of work that is carried out in each work place.

1. Workcenter in Odoo Manufacturing

2.  Work center is an organization unit where manufacturing
activities are performed.A product as a whole may or may not
be completed from a single work center.Manufacturing activity
or Operations are carried out at different Work Centers
depending up on the type of work that is carried out in each
work place.

3.  For this purpose you might need to install the manufacturing
module .Go to Configuration --> Settings -->Work orders.
 Enable the Work orders to manage the work centers.

4. Up on enabling an over view window of work center look like
this.
One can directly go to the work centers from this window or can
follow
Master data →Work centers →create , to create a work center .

5. Fill all the fields will suitable information's . On the top you will
be able to see some smart buttons ,Which will help to have
simplified views based on that category .

7. Alternative work centers : It can be substituted to this one, in
order to dispatch the production .
Time Efficiency :Suppose an operation / work can be done in
one hour, then its time efficiency is 100%. 50% indicates that
the work Is done in 2 hours.
Capacity : No of work pieces that can be produced in parallel.
OEE Target: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Target in
percentage.
The time before prod:Time in minutes for the basic setup
before start of a production.

8. Time after prod:Time in minutes for the cleaning after the
production.
Description :Give the detailed description of the Work centers.
These are the newly created work centers.

9.  Once manufacturing order is given ,it will processes and shows
the status of the order here.
You can give color to the work centers ,adjust the settings etc
by clicking on the dots on the top right corner.

11. After creating the work center next step is to create new routing .
Go to Master Data → Routing
Click on Add a line to give necessary work center operations.

12.  Give the operation a suitable name.
 You can choose between different work centers in routing
product.
 You will be able to set the duration computaion to either
based on real time or set duration manually.Also default
duration can be adjusted.
 You can decide when you want to start next operation
between step by step completion or partial completion of
processing of the products.
 Save the changes made .

14.  If you have to upload any file regarding the operations, you can
do so by clicking on upload file in the worksheet tab.

15. See I have created another operation with a different work center.

16.  The order of the works to be done is important here .
 The works progress in this order.

17. Now we are going to apply this routing to build a material:
Go to Maser Data → Bills of Materials
Select a material → Edit
Change the routing to table ,that we have just created .
You can also change between BoM type
Then hit Save

18. Now we are going to create a manufacturing order
Go to Operations → Manufacturing Order.
Click on Create to newly create an order
Select the product ,quantity and BoM.
Hit save .
You can check availability of the product now.

19.  On click of Plan work orders will be visible on the top right
corner of the manufacturing order.
 Click on the Work orders to see the status of the orders.

20.  Our first order is ready as you see the highlighted line.
 So to process that click on the order.
 You will be able to see the buttons like these shown below .
You can click done if your product is complete.
 Even you can mark block on the production if there is loss
due to any failures. Scrap indicate the product moves from
current warehouse to any other.

22. When a work is complete the dash board of the workplace will
appear like this:

23.  Now is if start the work in second work place , it will show In
progress instead of To launch.
 When both of the works are done, you can mark them as Mark
as done to indicate finished works
 You can view the productivity analysis in OEE here. These are
two views of finished works.

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