Re: Creating Shop Orders For Maintenance Tasks

Bruce,
I have seen this done successfully in version 4.05 CD.
We used "critical" workcenters that needed periodic maintenance
and we wanted visibility to those planned shut-downs.
Firm Planned orders for the dummy item# generated a Cap Load
on the workcenter for the periods we anticipated the shut-down.
A shop order may or may not be necessary depending on which reports
you use for scheduling....SFC reports and/or CAP reports.
You might consider a BOM for materials needed for the maintenance work
but that implies keeping perpetual inventory of those materials.
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Good Luck !
Jim Barry
Belchertown, MA

---- bbutler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
> We are due soon to go to BPCS V8.2.0.1 (currently V6.0.0.4 ) and although 
> we do manage the production side of BPCS okay we are now looking to see if 
> we can incorporate  Maintenance Tasks via a schedule into BPCS ( create 
> shop orders) with a item number say T00001 with item description " Remove 
> and Replace Filter on Machine Number 000???"  work centres with routings 
> and allocated hours would be setup but no BOM's ( at this stage ) can 
> anyone see any issues with this thinking or perhaps there is a easier way 
> to achieve this ???????
> 
> Regards,
> Bruce
> Production/ Maintenance  Supervisor 
> Johnsonscreens  Australia ( NSW )
> 
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