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An assembly point occurs at an operation where shop personnel assemble components to build a product. The Assembly Point activity allows you to record assembly data for each component that went into an assembly. These assembly data records provide the key link to the genealogy records for product during manufacturing. As quality issues are found, these records provide the SFC numbers that could be affected by a component defect and can reduce the number of SFC numbers that must be repaired or recalled.

When you use manual/discrete component traceability, you can track information about the components that operators assemble onto an SFC number. An assembly record is created for a unique instance of an SFC number that is built in manufacturing.

The Assembly Point activity can validate the location, reservation (Floor Stock Receipt), and time-sensitive key attributes before the material can be consumed by an SFC number (see Material).

It supports the consumption of serialized or non-serialized components.

Process

  1. In Data Type Definition Maintenance, you define the fields for data to be collected when material is assembled. You can also attach a pre-save validation activity that is executed during the collection of the data field value to assure the value passes validation. In Data Field Assignment Maintenance, you group these data fields and associate them with a data type of Assembly category (see Assembly Data Type). In addition you can define another pre-save validation activity for all data fields in the data type group. Further, you can validate the format of the data value (see Setting Up Mask Validation for Assembly Data Types).

  2. In Material Maintenance, you assign the data type to be collected on assembly.

  3. In Routing Maintenance, you define operations where components are assembled.

  4. In BOM Maintenance, you define a BOM for the assembly and assign the material and quantity to be assembled at a routing operation. This operation is then realized as an assembly operation or where components are consumed. On the Component Details screen, an assembly data type can be assigned to a component.

  5. In Activity Maintenance, you define the assembly mode, whether components must be assembled or may be skipped as defined by the assembly sequence or whether components can be assembled as selected by the manufacturing personnel. Further, you define if component consumption is enforced at the assembly operation in the BOM and an SFC number has the correct status at the assembly operation (see Assembly Point (Assemble Components)).