Comments on: Parallel or serial? http://navigateintosuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial Ensuring Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementation success since 2003 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:26:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vjekoslav Babic http://navigateintosuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial/comment-page-1#comment-1432 Vjekoslav Babic Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:04:27 +0000 http://NavigateIntoSuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial#comment-1432 @Miklos: Hi there and welcome! That's true - it always depends on what you are manufacturing. But tell me, would you really use manufacturing module to handle ship-building? IMHO, it is very similar to any construction project work, and Jobs module is far better for handling that type of "manufacturing". But you are really right - NAV is mostly like what those guys in Denmark needed the most ;) @Miklos: Hi there and welcome! That’s true – it always depends on what you are manufacturing. But tell me, would you really use manufacturing module to handle ship-building? IMHO, it is very similar to any construction project work, and Jobs module is far better for handling that type of “manufacturing”. But you are really right – NAV is mostly like what those guys in Denmark needed the most ;)

]]> By: Vjekoslav Babic http://navigateintosuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial/comment-page-1#comment-1431 Vjekoslav Babic Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:02:17 +0000 http://NavigateIntoSuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial#comment-1431 @Valentin: Hi, and welcome to my blog! What I tried to give here is the theoretical angle, and I asked for specific examples from the practice. I agree that in practice nobody will create front and back wheel as a part of work order for bicycle - what I gave here was an example which is easy to comprehend. How you approach your assemblies and sub-assemblies really depends on your type of production. If you are ATO or MTS - then of course you aren't creating subassemblies as a part of your final assembly. But if you are MTO, then of course you do, don't you? I'm currently working on a project in a true MTO environment, and looking at their processes, parallel routings - while possible - would create a nightmare in planning. @Valentin: Hi, and welcome to my blog! What I tried to give here is the theoretical angle, and I asked for specific examples from the practice. I agree that in practice nobody will create front and back wheel as a part of work order for bicycle – what I gave here was an example which is easy to comprehend. How you approach your assemblies and sub-assemblies really depends on your type of production. If you are ATO or MTS – then of course you aren’t creating subassemblies as a part of your final assembly. But if you are MTO, then of course you do, don’t you? I’m currently working on a project in a true MTO environment, and looking at their processes, parallel routings – while possible – would create a nightmare in planning.

]]> By: Vjekoslav Babic http://navigateintosuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial/comment-page-1#comment-1430 Vjekoslav Babic Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:57:10 +0000 http://NavigateIntoSuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial#comment-1430 @Erik: Hi there! Yes, I'm back, and I'll try to post more. I hoped to get more free time when I choose the freelancing path, now I see that it isn't that way, but still - I'll do my best to keep this blog alive! @Erik: Hi there! Yes, I’m back, and I’ll try to post more. I hoped to get more free time when I choose the freelancing path, now I see that it isn’t that way, but still – I’ll do my best to keep this blog alive!

]]> By: Miklos Hollender http://navigateintosuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial/comment-page-1#comment-1429 Miklos Hollender Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:27:13 +0000 http://NavigateIntoSuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial#comment-1429 "In real life you produce dozens, maybe hundreds of different products where each of the machines can work varying amounts of times on each of the products, and as soon as you start planning parallel routing, you are going to get a total hell of shifting bottlenecks." Depends on what are you actually manufacturing. If you would be building a huge ship that takes 2 years to make, you'd be crazy NOT to use parallel routes. Er... guess what... they are building a lot of ships in Denmark. Especially Maersk. Which was once a huge NAV partner. So I think that's actually not even a coincidence. ;-) “In real life you produce dozens, maybe hundreds of different products where each of the machines can work varying amounts of times on each of the products, and as soon as you start planning parallel routing, you are going to get a total hell of shifting bottlenecks.”

Depends on what are you actually manufacturing. If you would be building a huge ship that takes 2 years to make, you’d be crazy NOT to use parallel routes.

Er… guess what… they are building a lot of ships in Denmark. Especially Maersk. Which was once a huge NAV partner. So I think that’s actually not even a coincidence. ;-)

]]> By: Valentin http://navigateintosuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial/comment-page-1#comment-1428 Valentin Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:08:25 +0000 http://NavigateIntoSuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial#comment-1428 I think you look from slightly wrong angle – theoretical … In theory parallel routing will give better result. But in real life nobody will produce “back and front wheel as part of work order for bicycle”. Or what I try to say - manufacturing process will be divided on sub processes/subassemblies and optimized by S&OP type of planning. So essentially you are doing parallel manufacturing but on subassembly level. Then you make your master schedule on weekly or monthly level and do some type of dispatching on the work center or employee or work order level. I think you look from slightly wrong angle – theoretical … In theory parallel routing will give better result. But in real life nobody will produce “back and front wheel as part of work order for bicycle”. Or what I try to say – manufacturing process will be divided on sub processes/subassemblies and optimized by S&OP type of planning. So essentially you are doing parallel manufacturing but on subassembly level. Then you make your master schedule on weekly or monthly level and do some type of dispatching on the work center or employee or work order level.

]]> By: Erik P. Ernst http://navigateintosuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial/comment-page-1#comment-1427 Erik P. Ernst Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:37:40 +0000 http://NavigateIntoSuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial#comment-1427 Good to see that you're back! Not a lot of posts from you the last 5-6 months! Good to see that you’re back! Not a lot of posts from you the last 5-6 months!

]]> By: Navigate Into Success http://navigateintosuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial/comment-page-1#comment-1426 Navigate Into Success Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:25:08 +0000 http://NavigateIntoSuccess.com/blog/parallel-or-serial#comment-1426 <strong>Parallel or serial?...</strong> Long time no see, eh? I know I%u2019ve promised to write about a lot of stuff here, and I see this queue of... Parallel or serial?…

Long time no see, eh? I know I%u2019ve promised to write about a lot of stuff here, and I see this queue of…

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