Understand work order and job creation

When a work order is created and assigned to a line, a job is created for each entity in the line. Within the work order, each job is uniquely identified as follows:

• An operation ID is assigned, starting at 1 and incremented for each position in the line layout.

• A sequence number is assigned, starting at 0 for each parallel entity at a given location or each unique segment in the line and incremented according to the entity name or segment order in the line, respectively.

The following diagram illustrates the operation ID and sequence number assignments for jobs in a line with two segments.

Note that, for work orders created in MES Web Portal, no BOM information is associated with the work order assigned to a line, except for the produced item itself. It is assumed that for these work orders, the material consumed is the same as that produced, and in the same amounts.

For information about how to create a work order and assign it to a line, see Create a work order.