Work Center Type

A work center that consists of multiple work centers. If you are using shared work centers, the secondary work center is always a main work center, even if the primary work center is a sub work center.

A work center that belongs to a higher-level work center in order to review aggregated capacity.

If an operation must be subcontracted, a subcontracting work center must be defined. You cannot link operation-rate codes for this work-center type. However, you can record planning data by subcontracting work center, irrespective of the selected critical capacity type. If a work center is of the Subcontracting Work Center type, you cannot change the work-center type.

The work center is a costing work center.

An assembly line work station where no operations are carried out, but orders wait pending transfer to the next work station.

A work center that is part of an assembly line. A line station is used in the production of final assembly schedule items.

A grouping of one or more work stations in a fixed sequence defined in the Work Cells (tirpt0140m000) session, dedicated to repetitive manufacturing. Work cells are used for manufacturing items based on production models.