Recommended steps
Prepare work centers and machines
Organize areas, workstations, and tools to execute operations.
Define the manufacturing process
Define operations, inputs, outputs, steps, inspections, versions, and restrictions.
Define production shifts
Define when the plant and its resources are available to plan operations.
Create pause reasons
Classify why an operation or group of operations stops.
Decide what to manufacture
Distinguish real urgencies from suggestions that can wait, be grouped, or be discarded.
Manage manufacturing orders
Launch, view, block, or cancel work the plant needs to execute.
Modify manufacturing orders
Edit the workflow when an unexpected shop floor event occurs.
Sequence orders
Order operations so the plant executes work in the correct priority.
Execute shop floor operations
Record progress, consumption, inspections, pauses, and production from work mode.