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Purpose

In this process, you create a rate routing. Rate routings are routings which enable you to reproduce the complex production processes of flow and repetitive manufacturing.

Note Note

If you work with the line hierarchy without a line balance, you do not necessarily require a rate routing. You can enter the production rates for the takt time/rate-based scheduling in the line hierarchy. The system then uses only these production rates for planning in Sequencing. You need a rate routing if you want to create a standard cost estimate for a material, for example.

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Process Flow

  1. Create Work Centers

  2. Start by creating a work center as a phantom work center. You need a phantom work center because the structure of the production line is usually not yet established when you start planning. You can then assign all operations initially to the phantom work center when you create the rate routing. Later, when you have created the line hierarchy, you can assign the operations to line segments.

  3. Create a Rate Routing

  4. Create the rate routing in the system and enter the routing header data.

  5. Create a Sequence for the Main Production Line

  6. Establish which operations must be carried out one after the other on the main production line, and create the operations.

  7. Create a Sequence for a Feeder Production Line

  8. If you want to carry out operations on synchronized feeder production lines parallel to the main production line, you define parallel sequences for these feeder production lines. You can also create parallel feeder production lines for the feeder lines themselves.

    Then enter the operations that you want to carry out on the individual feeder production lines.

  9. Displaying Rate Routings in Graphic

In the rate routing graphic, you can display and check your production process.

Result

You have created a rate routing, which is not yet assigned to a production line. You assign the routing when you have reproduced the structure of the production line in the line hierarchy. Then enter those work centers into the rate routing which you have inserted in the line hierarchy as line segments.

If you want to keep the rate routing with the phantom work centers as a template for other production versions, you can first of all Copy Rate Routing as a Template .