Manufacturing is a process of converting raw materials or components into finished goods or products. For a company which handles the large number of manufacturing products have to track every manufacturing orders efficiently. The Manufacturing Module in Odoo help you to handle the complexity of Production, Manage Bills of Materials, Plan Manufacturing Orders, and Track Work Orders etc. Manufacturing module is one of the basic application in Odoo. You have to install the ‘Manufacturing’ app from Odoo Apps to avail this module on your ERP. Since the Manufacturing module is highly integrated with Inventory Management, you can keep your inventory automatically updated with each manufacturing process.
> Manage
Manufacturing orders: Manage your products in assembly lines or manual assembly.
Work orders: Launch production of items needed in the final assembly of your products.
Repair orders: Manage repairs of items under warranty or as a service.
> Schedule & plan
Plan manufacturing: Get a clear view of your whole planning and easily reschedule manufacturing.
Organize work orders: Have access to all available resources and plan ahead for your production.
Manage Bill of Materials: Keep track of the availability of items in stock and production time.
WorkCentre Capacity: MRP II scheduler using capacities and schedules of WorkCentre.
> Define Flexible Master Data
Create multi-level Bills of Materials: Set a Bill of Materials within another in order to manufacture components of a product in another Bill of Materials.
Optional routing: Create new routings for work orders in order to sequence your production depending on the routing used.
Version changes: Allow your products to evolve and add configurable options when creating orders.
Phantom of Bill of Materials: Create phantom BoM to manufacture and sell products in kits or to build replacement parts.
> Quality
Control Points: Automatically trigger quality checks for the manufacturing department.
Quality Checks: Deploy your statistical process control easily with checks.
Quality Alerts: Organize your work using the Kanban view of quality alerts.
> Maintenance
Preventive Maintenance: Trigger maintenance requests automatically based on KPIs.
Corrective Maintenance: Trigger corrective maintenance directly from the control center panel.
Calendar: Schedule maintenance operations with a calendar.
Statistics: Get all maintenance statistics computed for you: MTBF
> WorkCentre Control Panel
Tablets: Set tablets in every work center to organize their work efficiently.
Record production: Register productions, scan products, lots or serial numbers.
Worksheets: Display worksheets directly on the WorkCentre with instructions for the operator.
Misc. Operations: Scrap products, create quality alerts, and perform checks, right from the WorkCentre.
> Alerts
Use alerts to show changes or quality checks to the operator.
Business Intelligence: Get detailed analysis report on your production line, analyze the performance of your work centers and production, plan alternative production strategies, etc. are some of the qualitative measures Odoo BI engine can suggest to you in manufacturing module.