MFG/PRO 9.0 User Guide Volume 3: Manufacturing - QAD.com

144 MFG/PRO USER GUIDE — MANUFACTURING
Fig. 8.5
Shift Maintenance
(18.22.1.22)
Tip
This Productivity
field has no
connection
to productivity
measures elsewhere
in the system.
Setting Up Shifts
Use Shift Maintenance (18.22.1.22) to define the normal hours and
production rate factor for each shift during a day. You can also define any
exceptions to that normal pattern.
Set up shifts for a site or for a production line at a site. You can define up
to four shifts for a day of the week. A working day should have at least
one shift with some number of hours greater than zero and a rate
adjustment factor also greater than zero.
The system rates shift capacity as:
Shift Capacity = Production Rate x Hours x Productivity
The hours per shift is the number of hours the shift is capable of
producing, rather than the total number of working hours for the shift.
Shifts can overlap—so the total number of hours for all shifts can exceed
24 hours.
When a shift is more or less productive than a normal shift, enter an
adjustment factor in Productivity.
Example A production line has three shifts, and the third shift has only
20% of the employees of the first two shifts. Enter a shift adjustment
factor of 20% for that shift.
If the production rate is 100 units per hour, a shift is capable of production
for seven hours, and the productivity factor is 100.00%, then its capacity