Use department classes to group departments for shop floor scheduling and control, and to identify manufacturing cells and flexible machine centers. Department classes are used for reporting purposes.

   To create a department class:

1. Navigate to the Department Classes window.

2. Enter text that uniquely describes the department class. For example, you could use ASSY to group all final assembly departments.

3. Choose the Departments button to display the departments assigned to this department class and the dates when these departments can no longer be assigned to routing operations.

   Note: Assign departments to classes when you define departments.