Workstation Group Details
The workstation details page, accessible from Production planning -> Workstation groups, shows the configuration and information of a workstation. A workstation group is a group of similar workstations.
This page allows:
- editing the general properties of a workstation,
- adding custom holidays,
- specifying custom working hours,
- specifying the workstation group's color.
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Workstation Group Properties
All workstation groups (WSGs) have the following properties:
- Number is a unique code for this group of workstations.
- Name is the name of the group.
- Type defines how the workstation group behaves during scheduling:
- Active processing - for normal operations constrained by capacity (the number of available workstations) and working hours. The workstation group has a finite number of manned workstations.
- Passive processing - for operations not constrained by capacity and working hours. This is useful for waiting steps (e.g., drying, cooling, quarantine).
- This group is available 24/7 (apart from the defined holidays on the WSG or company level).
- This group does not have workers or hourly rates. This also means that the operations do not have any labor or applied overhead costs.
- The operation duration is a single cycle time for any quantity (e.g., if the drying time is 60 minutes, the operation, regardless of quantity, will complete in 60 minutes).
- Setting the number of instances, hourly rates, and custom working hours is unavailable.
- Note: The Type can be selected only when creating the workstation group.
- Custom holidays provide an option to define custom free days different from those defined for the company under Settings -> System settings -> Holidays.
- Color is the color for operations that are performed on workstations of that group in the following calendars:
- The Gantt chart at Production planning -> Production schedule -> Gantt chart
- The Execution report at Customer -> All customers summary reports
If the type of workstation group is set to Active processing, the following additional properties become available:
- The number of instances is used during group creation only, for automatically creating up to 20 workstations. More can be added at Production planning -> Workstations.
- Hourly rate is used during group creation only. It allows assigning an hourly rate to all automatically created workstations. Once the workstation group is saved, the hourly rate can be edited in particular workstation details at Production planning -> Workstations.
- Custom working hours provides an option to define custom working hours different from those defined for the company under Settings -> System settings -> Work hours.