Allocating a Work Center to an Operation in Process Plan Browser
To allocate a work center to an operation in process plan browser:
1. Right-click on the operation for which you want to allocate a work centre and select > . The Allocate Resource dialog box opens.
2. Select the type of object to search from the Search On drop-down list.
3. Enter the search criteria, and click Search. The results of the search are returned at the bottom of the window.
4. Select the desired work centre, and click OK. If there are no compatibility links attached to a work center, then the work centre is directly added under an operation.
If there are any compatibility links attached to work center, the Select Compatibility Links for object: dialog box opens. It displays a list of compatibility links. You may be presented with the following options:
◦ If there are no Forbidden processing resources present, the Select Compatibility Links for object: dialog box displays a list of following types of resources:
▪ Preferred resources— These are selected by default. You can clear the selection for these resources per your business requirement.
▪ Acceptable resources—These are not selected by default. You can select these resources per your business requirement.
▪ Mandatory resources— These are required resources and are selected by default. You cannot clear the selection for these resources.
◦ If there are no Forbidden processing resources present, a work centre with a Forbidden processing resource attached to it gets directly allocated to the operation.
◦ If a Forbidden resource is already allocated to an operation, then a work centre with the same Forbidden resource attached to it cannot be allocated to the same operation. An error will be displayed stating the same.
◦ If there are allocated Not Recommended processing resources already associated with a work centre, a warning will be displayed. You are provided with an option to cancel the association or continue with the association.
5. Click OK. The work centre and selected resources are added to the operation.
An error is displayed if you try to allocate an already allocated work center or processing resource to an operation.