Industrial Equipment Manufacturing (IEM) for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central supports the customer-driven (pull) style of manufacturing.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central's manufacturing module is not aware of resources, while project-based companies often need to be flexible with their human resources. To make optimal use of their skills, resources may be needed not only in projects but also in service, assembly, or production orders.
Resource Management makes this possible through resource tasks, which are created as a common entity between projects, service, assembly, and manufacturing.
For the production department, this means resources can be added to production order operations as operators. While Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central plans the capacity of the work and machine centers (W&M centers), the operator can start and stop the W&M center timer.
On the W&M center, set when you want that center to start: Not, Set-up, Run, or Both.
At the start of a task, the operator can select set-up or run time. Based on the settings, the W&M center's timer also starts. When the operator stops, an additional prompt asks whether the W&M center's timer must also stop. If not, the W&M center continues running "unmanned" until the operator signs in again to stop it.
Operator time is recorded in the time sheet, while the W&M center's time is recorded immediately as a capacity entry on the production order. In that way, progress is immediately visible on the production order.
STAEDEAN also offers a Anywhere Mobility Solutions process that supports resource integration in manufacturing from a mobile device, functioning as a basic Manufacturing Execution System (MES). The flexibility of Anywhere Mobility Solutions lets you add additional information to further build out this MES.