Work center capacity

Finance and Operations/AX User Forum
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Hi,

I was told that there were two ways to set up the capacity for a work center, one is linked to the working calendar, the other is the capacity unit. However, how AX determine which way to calculate the capacity?

Thanks,

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It always calculates capacity in time. There are 2 ways, one is the time the other is capacity. You tell it this on the WC and it writes it to the route. If you specify time it uses time. If you specify capacity per hour it looks at how many you are making and expresses the step in hours.

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Thanks AdamRoue,

Does it mean that if I do not specify the Capacity on the General tab, AX will use the working calendar (time)? If I specify the capacity, AX will ignore the working calendar (time)?

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No

If you specify capacity it calculates this based upon the quantity and applies the calculated time to the working time calendart associated to teh work centre.

If you do not specify capacity you would specfy the times tab, but generally only on each route, and this calculates the time and applies the calculated time to the working time calendart associated to teh work centre.

Generally you would not use times on teh Work centre - but these are defaults when it is applied to teh route, so actually it is the route that counts.

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Hi Adam,

I have 3 Machines with each having capacity of 1500/hr, 1500/hr, 2000/hr. These are grouped into one resource group.

When i assign the Resource group to my Route with Qty to be used as “3” in AX 2012.

Production order created for 20000 pieces is created with the above route and Job scheduled

  1. If i specify the consumption calculation as “capacity”, Factor “1”, and Process Qty - Not specified

  • Each of the machine is occupied for a period of 13.33 hrs(Total of 40 Hrs consumption).

  • If i modify the capacity on each machine, still the operation takes same time.

How is it arriving at the consumption calculation here

  1. If i specify the consumption calculation as “Standard”, Process Qty - 10000, each of the machine is occupied for a period of 2 hours(Total of 6 hours)

Is there any way i can specify that all three together can produce 10000 per hour?

My main concern here is to find any solution to distribute the work into three machines of different capacity for the same work and system should suggest the best option to go ahead with the production

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  1. does the group have a capacity? I would remove 2000/hr and check 2 works at 1500/hr. if it does adn you add in 2000/hr then it is a bug and you need to report it.

It may well be that a restriction of the system is when you use machines across a group with capacity then the routing rate takes precendence over the resource, so it gets it from the group - it may just take the first, which is easy to test, swap teh rate/hr between 1 and 3. You maybe looking for something it cannot do, but test it, verify the setup and then report it.