Routing Tasks

Routing Tasks -- The Individual Production Tasks

Each Routing Task is a discrete step in the manufacturing process, and most products employ a number of them, which must be executed in a specific sequence.

The Production Routing is the collection of all Routing Tasks, specifying the exact order of implementing each one of them, so the Routing is the complete list of every Task that must be done to manufacture the finished product.

Each Routing Task can be associated with fixed assets like production spaces, and manufacturing machines. The setup time for the asset to make it ready for a new production run, and the unit processing time for each product that is operated on with the asset can be set up for the specific Tasks. Alternately, you can specify an "Estimated Calc Method" which is used to calculate the total utilization time for the asset, setup plus units processed.

A Routing Task can be used on many different products when this is appropriate.

Setup the Routing Tasks

The use Routing Tasks navigate from the Main Navigation screen as follows:

* Click: [Purchasing] Icon > [Manufacturing] Tab > [New Routing Task] or 
* [Find Routing Task] for an existing Task 
**  From the Task list select the desired task to edit, or look it up using search