Re: Manufacturing Cycle Times

You didn't say exactly where the gaps are, but here is some information that
might help.

The BPCS FOD (Shop Order Operation) file stores a number of pieces of
information for each shop order operation.  The following pieces of information
are available:
     - Scheduled start date
     - Scheduled completion date
     - Original Run hours (scheduled hours)
     - Original Setup hours   (scheduled hours)
     - Original Machine hours  (scheduled hours)
     - Scheduled/Expected quantity
     - Actual run hours reported
     - Actual machine hrs reported
     - Actual setup hours reported
     - Actual Quantity reported
     - Move Time
     - Queue Time

The FOD file also stores the total actual hours per operation.  FOD file does
not store the actual operation completion date, but you can get that from your
labor reporting in the BPCS FLT (Labor Ticket) file.  One note:  the FLT files
also stores a field called "quantity at standard".  The field is supposed to
store the total hours, based on the routing file standard, that should have been
used to complete the quantity reported on the labor ticket.  I know that there
are situations in v6.04 when this field is not calculated correctly.  There are
at least two BMRs related to  this problem for SFC650 and JIT600 labor posting
programs.

The BPCS shop order files will help you track performance by shop order and/or
item.  If you are looking at a broader picture, you may want to try another
approach.  For example, I worked with a process industry client who wanted to
track schedule performance on a weekly basis.  At the beginning of the period,
we took a "snapshot" of the schedule, and stored that as the "planned" schedule.
During the period, actual performance is accumulated via the standard Shop Order
posting process.  At the end of the period, we can compare the actual against
the "planned".   Using this method allows us to compare actual performance
against the plan for the period  vs against the myriad of schedule changes that
happen during the week.

Please call if I can be of further assistance.

Peggy Heritz
Senior BPCS Specialist
Crowe, Chizek & Company, LLP
http://www.crowechizek.com/scg/
phone: 219.236.8698
fax:        219.236.7615




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Hello all,

BPCS MM 6004 /AS400.

We are currently working on a project to improve the cycle time of our
products. The main source of information will be the manufacturing system
with the aim of producing a report which could provide a comparison of actual
times/dates versus scheduled times/dates. We will be able to get some
information on actual times from labour hour reporting but it won't quite
meet all our needs. Has anyone else out there tried anything similar ? Is
there some base BPCS functionality that I have overlooked which would help ?
If not what did you do to retrieve this information.

Thanks,
Gordon.
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