Creating Work Centers 
Use
You start by creating a work center for the line hierarchy header and for each line segment that you want to put in the line hierarchy. In the work center, you define the master data for the line segment, such as capacity and scheduling data. You then create the line segments by inserting the work centers in the line hierarchy.
Integration
You can create work centers in the Work Center menu.
See also:
SAP-Documentation PP-Work Centers
Features
The following work center data is particularly significant for Line Design and takt-based scheduling in Sequencing.
- The standard value key controls the type of standard values in the rate routing (for example, setup time, personnel time). If you want to carry out line balancing for the line hierarchy, you enter the same standard value key for all the work centers. Otherwise, you cannot move the operations in the line balance.
- The work center defines the color used to display the line segment in the line hierarchy. You can allocate this color to the work center type in Customizing for work centers.
- You enter capacity categories and formulae for those work centers, for which you want to define the
Number of takts and individual capacities .
You enter a capacity category for the line segments, which Sequencing uses to determine the operating time (shift capacity) that is relevant for scheduling for the production line. Sequencing determines the operating time from the line hierarchy header as standard procedure. If you have split the production line up into buffered sections using
sort buffers, you can enter different operating times for each buffered section. You enter operating times for buffered sections in the first level of the hierarchy, for the first line segment of each buffered section.
- You enter capacity categories and formulae for the work centers, to which you want to assign operations, so that the system can calculate the duration of the operations.
- Here, you enter the capacity category, which determines the operating time (shift capacity) relevant for scheduling for the production line.
Actions
Starting from the main menu of Line Design, select the menu path Environment ®
Work centers to branch to the Work Center menu.