Editing Specifications
Setting-up Specifications
Click the Product Specification option in Settings | Manufacturing | Specifications menu to set up and edit basic form specifications.
Beforehand you can select between:
The menu offers you additional tools and options related to specifications. You can copy and delete specifications, and change components in specification group. You can also perform checks for faults or loopbacks in structure.
Using this module you can edit and maintain multi-level specification structure of products. In addition, use technological procedures to define production processes in individual modules. Thus even the most complex specification structure assemblies and production processes can be processed in a straight-forward and easy-to-use way, delivering best-of-breed solution. This is the very purpose of PANTHEON application.
This topic covers mainly editing of product specification, that is, the editing and setting-up of initial specification structure. Besides product specification, you can also specify a plan specification. It is mainly intended for modifying specific plan lines. On the other hand, the purpose of manufacturing specification is to modify specification structure of a work order.
The product specification contains default values underlying previously mentioned specification types.
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See topic SPECIFICATION for a detailed treatment of the concept of specifications and their functionalities as well as differences existing between individual types of specifications.
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Always specify specification and technological procedure just for a single specification module (assembly). That is, only for a single level of the entire (multi-level) specification structure. Use specifications to represent the entire multi-level product structure. Each specification has a corresponding technological procedure.
Bottom specification levels contain purchased materials (ingredients, raw materials) and at the top-most levels you can find finished products. Intermediate levels display semi-finished products. Note that specification structure can be adapted to changes occurring in the business process.
Usually every specification includes a material specification and technological procedure used in production. Occasionally production processes arent' executed due to their lesser priority. In such a case technological procedure is not included in specification.
Order in which you create individual parts of specification is not important. It is advised you use a highly systematic approach to enter key data correctly and provide for flawless monitoring of manufacturing and stock tracking.
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Virtual assemblies or phantoms are a special type of item, or better put, specification.
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To create a specification, start from construction documentation containing product data. That is, use standard technical specifications of material consumption in production. Normally, the "construction specifications" cannot be directly copied to a specification because it has to be taken into account that it mainly handles of a technical operating specification which must show the actual production process. It should also show the purchase (of materials and services) and sales process. Technological procedures used in production can be found in technical documentation of production processes.
For a more detailed treatmen of the concept, methods used and systematic approach of displaying data see Specifications.
Before actually trying to set up and edit specifications, you have to define basic initial data in the appropriate registers. Create IDs of assemblies and components (lines of material and operations) in the Items register. Here you can also specify tools used in manufacturing.
Use PANTHEON to create specifications for items of type P - Products (products / semi-finished products). Items used as phantoms (phantom assemblies) are defined as items of type C - Compound Goods or U - Compound Service.. In the end you can specify regulations in the Regulations register.
Specify resources (work centers, positions, machines) in the Resources register.
Set specification properties in program parameters. Use Program Parameters to specify default values, field names and user-defined fields.