Understand the input and output work centers

Each Site folder contains one Input and one Output work center. New and existing sites have one input work center and one output work center.

• The default names Input and Output cannot be changed.

• These work centers have Selective Lot Behavior only.

• You can add only lot reporting points or lot group reporting points under an input or output work center.

• You can add other relevant items as children of the Site folder, as before.

The following are the important properties of an input or output work center:

• Allowed Materials – Defines the list of materials that are permitted in this work center. Configure this property before you configure the next two properties. If you configure a material movement to move material in to or out of this work center and that material is not in this list, a validation error is raised.

Notes about input and output work centers

Some notes about input and output work centers:

• They do not have material quality reporting point associations. This is because the source quantity for input movements and the destination quantity for output movements is not captured.

• They do not consume licenses.

• They do not appear in existing equipment selectors, for example, when selecting a cause location.

• For more information on setting work center properties, see Add and configure a work center.

Related topics

• Add and configure an Area folder

• Add and configure a Site folder

• About the plant hierarchy

• About the equipment model

• About work centers