About Production Data

After you establish a production profile and create production plans against it, you are ready to start recording production data and accounting for any production losses. Using the Production Data Entry page, you can:

Record production values.
Record production losses.
Associate any production losses with specific production events, impact codes, and OEE codes.

As you record the data, the information will be summarized automatically and displayed on the Production Summary tab of the Production Data Entry page.

Remember from the PLA data model that each Production Data record must be linked to a single predecessor Production Plan record and can be linked to multiple successor Production Loss records. The following image shows these relationships, where the arrows represent relationship families, and boxes represent entity families. The Production Data family is outlined in red.

As you begin recording production data, the data is recorded in Production Data records. If you do not produce the planned amount in a given period, the Production Data record for that day can be linked to multiple Production Loss records that indicate the amount of lost production, the production event that caused the loss, and the impact of the loss.

For example, suppose a production plan spans three months: January 2010 through March 2010. The planned production for each day is 3,000 bottles per day. On January 1 and January 2, you produce all 3,000 bottles, meeting the planned production. On January 3, however, you produce only 2,000 bottles. To account for the loss, you would create a Production Loss record and record the 1,000 bottles that were not produced. Now, suppose that on January 4, you again fail to meet the planned production. This time, you produce only 1,000 bottles due to an equipment failure and a scheduled maintenance activity. In this case, you would create two Production Loss records, where one documents 1,000 bottles that were not produced due to a maintenance activity, and the other documents 1,000 bottles that were not produced due to an equipment failure.

The following image illustrates the records and links that would be created in this scenario, where the arrows represent links and the boxes represent records.