Workstation Groups
The Production planning -> Workstation groups section contains a list of all workstation groups.
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- What is a workstation group?
- What is a workstation?
- Workstation group's properties.
- Workstation group's reports.
What is a workstation group?
A workstation group is a group of workstations that can all do the same tasks. For example,
- A "CNC" workstation group with five CNC machines;
- An "Assembly" workstation group with two assembly tables;
- A "Heat treatment" workstation group with one oven.
Workstation groups together with workstations define your production capacity.
Note that:
- Workstation groups are necessary for the software for it to be be able to pick a suitable and available workstation for an operation.
- A workstation must must belong to a workstation group.
- A workstation can only belong to one workstation group.
- Workstations from different sites can be included in one workstation group.
- When defining an operation in a product's routing a corresponding workstation group must be chosen. Only during production scheduling, a specific workstation is assigned by the system.
| Workstation group | Workstation | Default worker | Workstation's hourly rate | Productivity |
| Workstation group A | Workstation A1 | Worker A | 50 | 1 |
| Workstation A2 | Worker B | 50 | 1 | |
| Workstation group B | Workstation B1 | Department B | 15 | 1 |
| Workstation B2 | Department B | 15 | 1 | |
| Workstation B3 | Department B | 30 | 3 |