Use of Performing Work Centers in the Operation 

Use

In the Plant Maintenance (PM) application component, you can specify which performing work center with which qualifications is to execute each operation or sub-operation. You can also calculate the suitability of a particular work center for executing an operation.

It is also possible to have individual operations executed by work centers in external companies (refer to Processing with an External Company as Work Center).

Prerequisites

If you want to use individual capacities for work centers, you must have assigned a capacity category to the operation in the Customizing for Production Planning and Control (PP). You can choose here between the following types:

The time capacity here is copied from the Human Resources (HR) application component.

The time capacity here is defined in the individual capacity of the machine itself.

If you use requirements profiles for work centers, these must be entered in the Human Resources (HR) application component.

If you use suitability data, this must be entered in the Customizing for Work Centers.

Features

You can use the work center to determine the following for each operation:

You make these entries in the detail screen for internal processing of the operation.

Entry of Qualifications

In the Qualifications section, you can use a requirements profile to describe the qualification requirements of the operation for a job or planned job.

An employee who can weld is required, to repair a boiler.

The planner responsible now has the following options:

Entry of Individual Capacities

For each work center, you can enter which individual capacities work there with which qualification quotation.

Work Center

Numer of Employees

Names of Employees

Qualifications

Mechanics 1

4

Frederic Bouton

Yavuz Saracoglu

Hans Müller

Subarashi San

Welding exam, head for heights

Mechanics 2

4

Gillian Anderson

Paul Hayman

Andrea Boselini

Manfred Leicht

Welding course

Electrics

2

Peter McPoley

Mikhail Jelnikov

Electrics master diploma

Calculation of Suitability Level

If an employee with particular qualifications is required in an order operation, then the qualification requirements for the operation and the qualifications offered by the work center (person or machine) are offset with one another. The result is the suitability level of the work center.

An employee who has passed a welding exam is required for an operation in an order.

However, for the scheduled work center "Mechanics 2", only the qualification "welding course" is valid. Since none of the employees at the "Mechanics 2" work center has passed a welding exam, each of them only has a suitability level of 60% for the operation to be processed.

Entry of Suitability

Suitability is generally used if the Human Resources (HR) application component is not being used, so people are not linked with qualification quotations.

Suitability and a suitability level are quite different: Whereas the system must calculate the suitability level, you simply enter a description of suitability.

In the Payment section, you can specify for each performing work center the required suitability for each operation.

Critical welding work is required to repair a boiler. The planner responsible defines that a person must have a welding qualification to perform this work, and therefore enters 02 for welding examination in the Suitability field for the relevant operation.