Machine Centers

A machine centerMachine centerA machine under a Business Central work center. Like work centers, machine centers become resources when production routing planning is enabled. in Dynamics NAV is the unit you actually load: the machine, line, or station that work is booked against. The connectorConnectorAn integration that links Dime.Scheduler to a back-office system, routing data in and scheduling decisions back out. builds Dime.Scheduler resourcesResourceAn entity that can carry out work - a person, vehicle, tool, or room - that you schedule on the planning board. from the standard NAV machine center table, so the planner can see which machine is free and which is already committed, and drag routing lines onto capacity instead of guessing at it.

Setup

In Dynamics NAV, machine centers are not a FastTrack solutionFastTrack solutionOne module of the Business Central or NAV connector that makes a kind of record plannable, such as service orders or production routing. Each has its own enable switch in the FastTrack wizard. of their own. They come with production routing planning. In the FastTrack wizardFastTrack wizardThe setup wizard inside Business Central or NAV that connects it to Dime.Scheduler and switches on the modules to plan from. It writes the source app and creates the source types for each enabled module., select Enable Production Routing planning, then select Use Machine Centers so the connector creates resources from the standard machine center table.

See production orders for the rest of the wizard setup, including how order status maps to a categoryCategoryA visual indicator (a color) applied to appointments to classify or label them. or time markerTime markerA visual indicator on an appointment, separate from its category, used to flag a status or condition at a point in time..

Usage

The connector adds a button to the machine center card (page 99000760) that sends the machine center to Dime.Scheduler as a resource. See common actions for how sending works across the connector.

Machine centers are also refreshed by the scheduled master data sync. Each run of the DS Scheduled Synch. codeunit sends resources, filter groupsFilter groupA configurable set of fields used to filter resources and tasks on the planning board., filter valuesFilter valueA single value inside a filter group, used as a qualification on a resource or a requirement on a task., work centersWork centerA Business Central manufacturing capacity unit. The production routing solution creates resources from work centers instead of the Resource table. and machine centers, provided production routing planning is enabled. See job queue for how to schedule it.