Manufacturing Control (MFC)

The Manufacturing Control module provides easy to use dashboards and stores the as-build structures of production and assembly orders.

These dashboards are available:

• Items dashboard

  From this the following sessions can be accessed for an item selected on the screen:

  • Bill of Material
  • The items wherein the item is used
  • The routings of th item
  • The alternative items
  • The related engineering revisions
  • The business partners that supply the item
  • Production orders
  • Purchase orders
  • Purchase schedules

  Other data is available in the dashboard for a selected item, such as:

  • Item signal
  • Inventory on hand
  • The time phased inventory presented in graphical mode.

• Work center dashboard:

  From this the following session can be accessed for a work center selected on the screen:

  • Utilization by week
  • Utilization by day
  • Input/output control
  • Resource order plan
  • Tool requests

  • The processes that can be started from this dashboard:

    • Build utilization
    • Generate input/output control
    • Request/return tools

  Other data available in the dashboard for a selected work center such as:

  • Basic week capacity
  • Number of operators
  • Number of machines

• The as-built header of the serialized item can be viewed and maintained in the Serial End Item - As-Built Headers (timfc0110m000) session.
• The as-built components of the serialized item can be viewed and maintained in the Serial End Item - As-Built Components (timfc0111m000) session.