Line/assembly associations establish a link between an assembly and the production line on which it is manufactured. You can define any number of line/assembly associations. You can also update and delete line/assembly associations.

Your repetitive assembly/line associations guide your repetitive production process. You can build the same assembly on different production lines. You can also build different assemblies on the same production line. Building different assemblies on the same production line makes it possible to aggregate, by production line, material requirements for a number of assemblies.

For each assembly on a line, you can enter a primary or alternate bill and a primary or alternate routing. If you change routings for an assembly on a line and there are open repetitive schedules, the new routing must have the same operations as the prior routing.

If you plan to over-complete assemblies, you can set a tolerance level, which restricts the number of assemblies that can be over-completed on the schedule.

Prerequisites

• Define and enable one production line. See: Defining Production Lines.

   To add a line/assembly associations:

1. Navigate to the Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations window. The Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations summary window appears.

   Note: You can associate several lines and assemblies simultaneously using the Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations Summary window. You can, however, also associate lines and assemblies one-at-a-time in the Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations window.

2. Choose the New button to open the Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations window.

3. Select the production Line where you build the repetitive assembly, then the assembly or select the Assembly then the production line.

   You cannot update the name of a production line after you have assigned it to a repetitive assembly nor can you delete a production line that supports repetitive schedules.

   To assign an alternate bill or alternate routing to the line/assembly association:

1. Select the alternate Bill of material. See: Primary and Alternate Bills of Material

   You can select an alternate bill if alternates have been defined for the assembly. If the WIP:See Engineering Items profile option is set to Yes, you can select engineering items as alternates. .

2. Select the alternate Routing. See Primary and Alternate Bills of Material.

   You can select an alternate routing if alternates have been defined. If the WIP:See Engineering Items profile option is set to Yes, you can select engineering routings as alternates.

   To enter a completion subinventory and locator:

1. Select the completion Subinventory and, if required by the subinventory, the Locator.

   Assemblies are completed or returned into or from this subinventory and locator. If the assembly has a routing, the completion subinventory and locator are defaulted from the routing but can be overwritten.

   Note: You can override the completion subinventory and locator you specify here when you complete or return assemblies using the Completion Transactions window.

   Note: You must specify a completion subinventory and locator if you plan to complete or return assemblies using the Move Transactions window since the subinventory and locator specified here are automatically used for those transactions.

   To enter a supply type, accounting class, line priority, and hourly production rate:

1. Select the Supply Type. See: Supply Types.

   The supply type defaults to Based on Bill. This supply type indicates that component requirements are supplied based upon their individual supply types. You can override this default by choosing one of the following supply types: Push, Assembly Pull, Operation Pull, Bulk, or Supplier. .

2. Select an accounting Class.

   Accounting classes can also be defaulted based on the assembly item's category default WIP class. You can override these defaults with any active repetitive accounting class. See: WIP Accounting Class Defaults and Repetitive Accounting Classes.

3. Enter a numeric line Priority.

   You must specify a line priority for each line/assembly association. Planning uses line priority to determine which line to create repetitive schedules on. Repetitive schedules are created on the highest priority line first. For example, if you build the same assembly on two lines and the first line has a priority of 1 and the other a priority of 10, planning creates repetitive schedules on the first line - the one with a priority of 1 - first.

4. Enter the Hourly Production Rate of assemblies on the production line.

   The maximum hourly rate for the production line is the default. The repetitive line scheduling method also uses the production rate to calculate how fast the line runs in terms of completed assemblies per hour. The production rate for any assembly on the line must be less than the maximum hourly rate on the line.

5. Check the Lead Time Line check box to indicate which production line Oracle Bills of Material is to use to calculate the processing lead time for the repetitive assembly. Oracle planning products use the calculated lead time in its planning process.

   If you do not select a lead time line for the repetitive assembly, the lead time rollup process in Bills of Material does not calculate a lead time for this repetitive assembly. There is no requirement to specify a lead time line.

   To set the tolerance level for over-completing assemblies:

1. In the Overcompletion region, select the Overcompletion Tolerance Type. The options are Percent or Amount. If you do not select a Tolerance Type, it signifies no tolerance, and you will not be able to over-complete assemblies on this job.

2. In the Overcompletion Tolerance Value field, enter the corresponding value for the Overcompletion Tolerance Type. If you did not select an Overcompletion Tolerance Type, you will not be able to enter a value in this field or over-complete assemblies on this job.

   To change line/assembly associations:

1. Navigate to the Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations Summary window.

2. Choose Find from the Query Menu.

3. In the Find Repetitive Line/Assembly Associations window, select either a Line to find all Line/Assembly associations for that line, select an Assembly to find all Line/Assembly associations for that Assembly, or select a Line and Assembly.

4. Select the Line/Assembly association to change and choose the Open button.

5. Change Line/Assembly association information as required.