Handling Serial Numbers on Shop Orders—Extended Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Basic Data Setup

Discrete Manufacturing Overview Racing Engine

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create the required data that will be used in the Discrete Manufacturing exercises. This sets up data for your site that only needs to be done once for Discrete Manufacturing course exercises.

  1. Set up your site for discrete manufacturing of racing engines.

General exercise for Overview of Discrete Manufacturing Data

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to reserve serial numbers on a shop order for a serialized part.

Windows:
Shop Order
Shop Order/Tracking and History
Shop Order Graphical As Built Structure

The fuel system for the racing engine is a manufactured serialized part with one serialized component and other non-serialized components. The serial numbers for the fuel system are generated manually. You want to create the following shop orders and reserve the serial numbers for the shop orders prior to actual production and receipt.

Reserving a Single Serial Number for a Shop Order

  1. Open the Shop Order window and create a new shop order on your site for the 21-250 part with a lot size of 1. Save the information.
  2. Record the shop order number (the value in the Order No. field) that was automatically generated so that it will be easy for you to query for your shop order later.
  3. Right-click anywhere in the header, and then click Reserve Serial No.
  4. When the Reserve Serials for Shop Order window displays, click New to create the serial number.
  5. Enter a serial number value for your part. To make it easy to later query for the serial number, prefix the number with your initials.
  6. Click OK to save the serial number and return to the Shop Order window.
  7. Save the information in the Shop Order window to save the serial number reservation.
  8. Click the Tracking and History tab and verify that the serial number you entered for your part is in the Serial Begin and Serial End fields.

Note: The Receiving Reserved Serial Structures on Shop Orders exercise continues the processing of this shop order.

Reserving Multiple Serial Numbers for a Shop Order

  1. Open the Shop Order window and create a new shop order on your site for the 21-250 part with a lot size of 10. Save the information.
  2. Record the shop order number (the value in the Order No. field) that was automatically generated so that it will be easy for you to query for your shop order later.
  3. Right-click anywhere in the header, and then click Reserve Serial No. 
  4. When the Reserve Serials for Shop Order window displays, click Sequence to create a set of consecutive serial numbers.
  5. When the Enter Sequence/Interval window displays, select the Add Prefix check box. In the following field, enter your initials followed by a dash.
  6. Click New to create a new record.

Note: The serial numbers generated can have either a prefix, a suffix, or both added to the generated set of sequential numbers. Decide what you prefer. The generated numbers do not keep any leading zeros. To have leading zeros, the zero characters must be added manually. The serial numbers are stored in the IFS Applications system as alphanumeric values.

  1. In the From Serial No field, enter the numeric value of the beginning serial number. In the To Serial No field, enter the numeric value of the ending serial number.
  2. Click Preview to see the serial numbers that will be generated. Verify that they are correct. Click OK to return to the Enter Sequence/Interval window.
  3. Click OK to generate the serial numbers and return to the Reserve Serials for Shop Order dialog.
  4. Verify that the serial numbers you want are displayed and, if correct, click OK to save the serial numbers and return to the Shop Order window.
  5. Save the information in the Shop Order window to save the serial number reservations.
  6. Click the Tracking and History tab and verify that the first serial number in the range you entered for your part is in the Serial Begin field and the last serial number in the range is in the Serial End field.
  7. Open the Shop Order Graphical As Built Structure window and query for your shop order.
  8. Right-click in the Serial Structure tab and then click Expand Descendents to see the serial numbers that are reserved for the shop order.
  9. Close the Shop Order Graphical As Built  Structure window.

Note: The Receiving Reserved Serial Structures on Shop Orders exercise continues the processing of this shop order.