Manufacturing in a company can be organized in various disparate ways. Before implementing a computer-controlled manufacturing, you have to know how your manufacturing is actually organized.

PANTHEON supports cell production. What this actually is? Let us take a look at the definition of production cell:

Production cell includes resources (tools, machines, human resources), warehouses and documents allowing you to create an item.

Here belong also all machines and tools that are required in production of specific item (semi-finished product, product, etc.) from raw materials. Besides machinery and tools human resources are also required in production. That means that production cell includes also employees, who will carry out individudul operations. Raw materials are normally required in production and because of this one or more warehouses (some can be virtual) belong to production cell. In them you store raw materials and products or semi-finished products. Each production cell comes with its own documentation: work orders, receiving slips, issue slips, shrinkage write offs, ...

Join production cells at will. Let us take a look at the example of linear manufacturing where production cell 2 uses an intermediate warehouse as receiving warehouse. The latter is used as final storage for production cell 1.

Production cells typically use star-shaped organization. Here all production cells use one and the same warehouse.

Organization of production cells is closely connected to material movements in production and the way work orders are released.

Let us take note of the following:

Every production cell releases work orders using its own document type! This means that each work order for every production cell is assigned its own number.

Production cells are independent from employees and resources used in production. The same employee or machine can be put to use in one or more production cells.

On the other hand, machinery and employees depend on release to manufacturing - that is, its planning using specifications and technological procedures. Organizing production cells do not necessarilly comply with the actual organization.

The number of production cells to implement in your manufacturing organization depends on the set documentation requirements.

The following principles are valid:

1. one production cell represents as regards releasing and monitoring manufacturing the simplest unit
2. a cell should be assigned for each production unit whcih is placed at a different location
3. If an item is relieved from inventory or is being posted to different warehouses, initiate its production in two or more production cells (see material movements in production).

A good organization saves you time when planning and monitoring production. It also eliminates numerous errors that could occur.