A Step-by-Step Guide to Configuring Work Centers in Odoo: Manufacturing Excellence

  • Published : Apr,5,2023
  • By: David Smith
A Step-by-Step Guide to Configuring Work Centers in Odoo: Manufacturing Excellence

Introduction

There are many things that go into maintaining a successful business. One of the most important aspects is being able to accurately track the performance of your company’s various departments–especially its manufacturing efforts. With Odoo’s Manufacturing software, you can easily manage all aspects of your manufacturing process. This includes both creating new work centers and adding departments to existing ones.

What is manufacturing?

Manufacturing is the process of converting raw materials into finished products. It involves several stages, including production planning, product design and development, production control and quality assurance. Manufacturing also involves other activities such as logistics (getting your product from A to B), warehousing (storing the finished product) and marketing (selling it).

What is a work center?

A work center represents an assembly line or department within your company that produces products according to certain specifications or standards. In Odoo terms: it’s where you define the resources needed for your manufacturing process – such as machines or people – along with their respective costs per hour/day/week etc., depending on how long they take to complete each action required by this particular task type (or “operation”).

What is a production line?

A production line contains several different operations which can be executed in any order but must be completed before moving on to another operation within that same line; this makes sense if you think about how cars are built at car factories!

Creating a new Work Center

You can create a new work center from the dashboard, by going to “Work Centers” and clicking on “+ New”.

  • In this dialog box, you’ll be asked to define your new work center in detail. You’ll need to give it a name, choose its type (you can have different types of production centers), set up its geographical location (this is important if you want to use transportation costs), define which module should be used for calculating labor costs and so on.
  • Once you’ve finished configuring all these settings, click “Save Changes”. You will then see that your new Work Center has been created successfully!

Adding new Departments to the existing department through Odoo’s Manufacturing software

To add a new department to an existing department through Odoo’s Manufacturing software, follow these steps:

  • Add a new manufacturing order for the new department.
  • Send the manufacturing order to the new department and set it up as “Processed” in that department’s queue.
  • Set up an assembly line for this new order, so that it gets sent out on time and doesn’t get lost in shuffle between departments!
Creating manufacturing orders for each department and production line in Odoo’s Manufacturing software

Now that you’ve created the manufacturing orders, it’s time to manage the production process. You can do this by creating a manufacturing order for each department and production line in Odoo’s Manufacturing software.

To start, click on Manufacturing Orders on the left-hand side menu of your screen. Next, click on Create New Order at the top right corner of your screen:

Sending the manufacturing orders to assembly Lines and work centers in Odoo’s Manufacturing software.

To send the manufacturing orders to assembly Lines and work centers in Odoo’s Manufacturing software, click on the “Sending” button from the top menu bar.

The sending screen has a number of tabs that allow you to filter out different types of orders, select specific products and customers, as well as view reports on your shipments.

With Odoo’s Manufacturing software, you can get more accurate information about your business’ performance than ever before.

Odoo’s Manufacturing software helps you get more accurate information about your business’ performance than ever before. It is easy to use, and it is affordable. You can track the performance of each department and work center in your business, including:

  • The number of products produced by each worker
  • The time spent producing those products
  • The cost per unit produced by each worker
Conclusion

Odoo’s Manufacturing software is a powerful tool that can help you take your business to the next level. With Odoo’s Manufacturing software, you can get more accurate information about your business’ performance than ever before.