Repetitive Manufacturing

In this step, you make the settings required for repetitive manufacturing. The characteristics of this type of production are:

• In repetitive manufacturing, the product usually remains unchanged over a longer period. It is not manufactured in individually defined lots. In contrast, a total quantity is produced over a certain period at a certain rate per part-period.

• Intermediate products are often processed directly with no interim storage.

• The components are often provided at the production lines on an anonymous basis.

• Repetitive manufacturing will normally involve a relatively onstant flow through production lines. Due to the distribution of the production of assemblies over several lines, the task lists (e.g. routings) of the individual assemblies tend to be simple and not to vary much. The routing will often only refer to one operation, however, it is also possible to use routings with several operations.

• Production completion confirmations are simplified and are made with with reference to the material produced. The completion confirmation includes the backflushing of components and the posting of production costs.

• By implementating the repetitive manufacturing component, functions are made available for production planning and for carrying out production that take the particular needs of a repetitive manufacturing environment into account. The standard PPC functions available in the system are used and are enhanced by functions specific to the repetitive manufacturing type of production.

The functionality of repetitive manufacturing can be applied to the areas of production that suit this production type. In other areas, on the other hand, you can use the standard order-specific functions. For example, the production of circuit boards suits the repetitive type of production whereby the subsequent final assembly of the PCs is a typical order-related type of production.