Work Centers

In manufacturing, the work centerWork centerA Business Central manufacturing capacity unit. The production routing solution creates resources from work centers instead of the Resource table. is where the work actually happens, so a planner scheduling production needs those work centers on the planning boardPlanning boardThe main graphical scheduling surface where dispatchers drag tasks onto resources across a timeline. as something they can drop jobs onto. 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 work center table, and from that point scheduling against a work center is no different from scheduling against a person.

Setup

In Dynamics NAV, work 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 Work Centers so the connector creates resources from the standard work 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 work center card (page 99000754) that sends the work center to Dime.Scheduler as a resource. See common actions for how sending works across the connector.

Work 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 values, work centers and machine centersMachine centerA machine under a Business Central work center. Like work centers, machine centers become resources when production routing planning is enabled., provided production routing planning is enabled. See job queue for how to schedule it.