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Taking Your Shop Floor Paperless - Webinar, August 28th, 2014.

During this webinar, you will learn about the Crossroads MES Shop Floor Solution which gives you the ability to do all the following and more:

• Collect production data
• Provide real time feedback to your workers and your management team
• Integrate to machines on your shop floor to pull counts directly
• Provide up-to-date electronic versions of shop floor paperwork at the work center
• Monitor your production against your key performance indicators
   

Join us on Thursday, August 28th at 12:00 p.m. Eastern to learn more.

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Baan uses the company calendar in the following modules to determine the start and end dates for planned orders:

• Master Production Scheduling
• Material Requirements Planning
• Capacity Requirements Planning (All three combined in a single planning module for Baan V and LN)
• Shop Floor Control

The calendar provides the valid working days, number of shifts per day and the number of hours in a day.

Baan allows for a single calendar for the whole company or for a calendar for each work center.

These programs are used to capture and post shop floor information. Labor reporting, machine time, etc. can be captured by either program. The key difference is that one will also capture the production receipt and backflush components. Based on your company information / transaction process, one of these programs will most likely be used daily to capture current shop floor data. You can use the shop packet labor ticket for the manual recording, and the keying of the data. Alternatively, you can incorporate an automated method like an MES solution to capture the data and streamline the process.

The bubble number is maintained at the component level for each component defined on the Bill of Material. It is an extra user-defined reference number that you can use to re-sequence the maintenance screen display or bills of material listings.

In Infor LX, the system displays the bubble number for the existing child items. Engineering drawings often use a bubble number at the component level on the drawing so that same bubble number can be used on the Bill of Material for a link of the component to the drawing. Alternatively, you may use it simply as a method to sequence the BOM.

Be careful of how you assign the number. It is a good idea to assign the number with a consecutive count by 10 leaving room to allow for component additions to the Bill of Material.