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WORK CENTER

A work center is a location where value-added work needed to produce a
material is carried out. It is where specifi c operations, such as drilling, assem-
bly, and painting, are conducted. A work center can also be a machine or a
group of machines; an entire production line; a work area, such as an assembly
area; or a person or group of people who are responsible for completing opera-
tions in different parts of the plant. Regardless of its composition, however, it
is a resource that can be used for a variety of purposes and for multiple pro-
cesses. For the purposes of this chapter, we defi ne a work center as a resource
used to produce a material.
Figure 6-6 illustrates the data associated with a work center. The basic
data section includes the name and description of the work center and the
person or people responsible for maintaining the master data for the center. It
also identifi es which task lists can use the work center. A task list is simply
a list of operations that are required to accomplish a task. Operations are
the specifi c tasks that must be completed, such as drilling, cutting, painting,
inspecting, and assembling. Different types of task lists are associated with
different processes.
In production a task list takes the form of a product routing or a master
recipe. We discuss product routings later in this chapter because they are used
in discrete and repetitive manufacturing. Master recipes are used in process

Figure 6-6: Work center data

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