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Manage workshops

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Modified: 11 Mar 2025
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Manage workshops

You can create workshop locations, which allow you to assign and track where work is completed.

You can add work areas, machines, and machine groups to the workshop. Workshops and work areas are essential elements in defining departments and capacity planning in general.

When you have created machine groups and machines, they can be assigned to cut lists when creating a new cut list or editing an existing one. See Create a cut list

Add workshops

A workshop is a physical location where the overall fabrication is managed.

  1. Go to Maintenance > Production Control > Fabrication Maintenance > Workshop Maintenance.

    The Workshop Maintenance dialog opens.

  2. To add workshops, go to the Workshops tab.
  3. Click New.
  4. Type a name and description.
  5. If this is a subcontractor workshop, select Is Subcontractor and select the company in the Subcontractor list.
  6. Click Add.
  7. Do either of the following:
    • To save the new workshop, click Save.
    • Proceed to adding work areas, machine groups, and machines.

Add work areas, machines and machine groups

Workshops contain work areas to which you can send work, either for all or selected departments.

  1. Go to Maintenance > Production Control > Workshop Maintenance.

    The Workshop Maintenance dialog opens.

  2. To add a work area, do the following on the Work Areas tab:
    1. Click New.
    2. Select the desired workshop in the Workshop list.
    3. Type a name in Work Area Name.
    4. Type a description for the work area in Description.
    5. Click Add.
  3. To add a machine group, do the following on the Machine Groups tab:
    1. Click New.
    2. Type a name in Machine Group.
    3. Click Add.
    4. If you add a machine, proceed to the next step. Otherwise click Save.
  4. To add a machine, do the following on the Machines tab:
    1. Click New.
    2. Type a name and description in Machine Name and Description.
    3. Select a machine group in the Machine Group list.
    4. Click Add.
    5. Click Save.

You can now select a work area, machine group, and machine when creating a cut list.

Delete work areas, workshops, machines and machine groups

To delete a machine group, you must first delete any machines related to it.
  1. Go to Maintenance > Production Control > Workshop Maintenance.

    The Workshop Maintenance dialog opens.

  2. On the Machines tab, select the machine that you want to delete.
  3. Click Delete.
    You are prompted to confirm the deletion.
  4. Click Yes.
  5. To delete a work area or a machine group, go to the Work Areas or Machine Groups tab.
  6. Select the work area or group that you want to delete.
  7. Click Delete.
    You are prompted to confirm the deletion.
  8. Click Yes.
After deleting a work area, machine and machine group assigned to a workshop, you can delete the workshop.
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