Plant ApplicationsAbout Work Orders and Operations
A work order is a request to manufacture a certain quantity of products in a given time. It contains information on the model, route, and quantity of a product that must be manufactured. Work orders are either created in Route Editor or imported into Plant Applications using the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) scheduler and import services.
Work orders are grouped by product and are assigned to a specific production line for manufacturing.
A work order comprises the job details and operations. To manufacture each type of product, a sequence of tasks must be performed. Each task or a set of tasks is called an operation. An operation in a work order is an executable job performed on a Production Unit of a Production Line. Operations can be defined either in the route using the Route Editor module or in the work order that you import from an ERP system.