Production

Microsoft Dynamics AX has been implemented by Integris in numerous production plants with repetitive manufacturing. In most of them production takes place in medium or large batches, which makes production orders last even as long as several weeks.

During implementations our consultants encountered several recurring problems related with the production type, so we developed a set of solutions, which considerably improved our clients’ work in Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Here are several examples of our solutions:

• The main production screen for the production department staff
• The main production screen for the production planning department staff. Production orders are divided into individual tasks, each of which may be planned on a different machine group (according to the order route). The production screen may be used both by the production management staff and the production planning staff.
• Breaking down the forecasted production transactions into days (MRP) – during the course of MRP the system takes into consideration the number of days that the order has been planned for. Thanks to this, when calculating the demand for materials for production orders the system evenly spreads the demand for each day of the planned production.
• Locating inventory deviations in production orders. The tool locating inventory deviations gives a possibility to burden production orders with differences resulting from stock taking. Those orders from the set range of dates are burdened in which the calculated material was disbursed with collection sheets. Before being registered all of the located deviations are placed in one collection sheet, which may still be edited manually if necessary.
• Overweights (for plants manufacturing plastic pipes) – thanks to production workers’ cutting, weighing and entering overweight samples into AX the system calculates and corrects automatic material consumption on order collection sheets. Thanks to this material consumption in the system is closer to the real consumption. Overweight control also enables calculation of production indexes, such as OEE.
• Simultaneous production orders (a solution to the problem of co-products). This functionality gives a possibility to plan many production orders (for different products) at the same time. This solution may be used successfully in situations where a single production process causes the manufacturing of a number of products.
• Production orders in many warehouse units. The functionality gives a possibility to plan and register the income of a ready-made product from production orders in a different unit than the main warehouse unit.
• Registering production operations through barcode reading. Each of the operations is documented with barcodes (EAN128) reflecting the starting and finishing of the operation. Reading the operation beginning code causes the generation and registering of a route card sheet. The solution may also be used via an Internet portal – Enterprise Portal.

Specialised production reports include:

• Production indexes – a range of reports calculating various production indexes, including access to machine groups, use of machine groups, quality of manufactured products, OEE index (Overall Equipment Efficiency)
• Formula maintenance control – the report displays information concerning the consumption of materials for ready production orders for a range of dates. The following items are compared with each other: the list of materials (BOM) originally assigned to the product, the list of materials estimated in the production order and real material consumption in the order.
• A report of semi-finished product availability. The report enables control of the number of semi- finished products available in the warehouse or the need to manufacture them.
• Production formula (also overall formula) - the report displays information concerning the demand for materials for a given production order. If more than one production order for the same product is marked, the report prints the total demand for materials for all of the orders.