Machine Centers

A machine center in Dynamics NAV is the unit you actually load: the machine, line, or station that work is booked against. The connector builds Dime.Scheduler resources 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 solution of their own. They come with production routing planning. In the FastTrack wizard, 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 category or time marker.

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 groups, filter values, work centers and machine centers, provided production routing planning is enabled. See job queue for how to schedule it.