Production Lines

Owned by Mac Jacob
Last updated: Apr 18, 2024 by Matt Jones
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This is a quick summary on the structure of Lines in Phenix. For more detailed information, see the work instruction Maintain Lines.

Production Lines in Phenix are created within an Area of a Site. To create a new line, click on the Area you want the Line to be part of. Under the Lines in Area header that appears, click Create Line and enter the requested information about the new line.

 

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  • The Line ID is the unique identifier of the line that it is most often referred to as.

  • The Description gives more information about the line in plain words.

  • Alternate Names are any other names or codes the line could be referred to as.

  • The Type of line is chosen from a pull-down list of the line types available. Types are used to filter, sort, and categorize production lines. 

  • The Committed Window is the period of time in which Phenix will not automatically reschedule orders. This is a firm zone to provide stability for production execution, changes within this window can only be made manually by the planner.

  • The Planning Window is the period that Phenix will arrange in the best Product Wheel sequence during scheduling operations.

  • The Default Production Rate Efficiency is the percentage of any production rate that the line you are defining will run. For example, if you define this value as 80%, materials that have rates of 100 units per minute, 80 units per minute, and 50 units per minute will run at 80 units per minute, 64 units per minute, and 40 units per minute, respectively.

Note: You do not have to specify a Committed or Planning Window for the Line unless it differs from the Organization default. If no Committed or Planning windows are specified for the line, the Organization default will be used.

  • The Fully-Loaded Cost of Runtime is the value of the line running, per minute. For oversold lines, this is generally the marginal value of extra units you can sell. For non-oversold lines, this is the total savings from not needing to run the line.

  • The Default Manufacturing Variation is the amount of variation between what is planned to be produced and what was actually produced on the line. This will be used for Wheel Design and Inventory Simulation within Phenix’s Product Wheel Designer, unless overridden by a material-specific manufacturing variation (see Maintain Materials for more information on material-specific manufacturing variation).

  • Other inputs in this window above the Schedule Adherence section are Line Attributes belonging to the Line Type selected.

  • Quantity Tolerance is a field that allows you to set a percentage of product filled by this line that is considered acceptable, creating alerts if the percentage is not met.

  • Timing Tolerance is a field that allows you to set a length of time by which the line can deviate from an order’s intended completion, creating alerts if the length of time is exceeded.