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Materials & Containers: How-To#

Material tracking is at the core of a Manufacturing Execution System (MES). A typical plant will have many different types of materials: WIP, raw materials, semi-finished and finished goods. Materials will change their characteristics during the course of the manufacturing process. Capturing the real-time state of every material and managing their life cycle in the plant is absolutely essential for shop-floor operations. In addition, for traceability purposes, the history of every material must be captured in the system.

In the Critical Manufacturing MES system, a material is a generic hierarchical object with a rich life cycle supported by a very comprehensive set of transactions to track all materials in the shop floor while recording their complete history and genealogy.

Available guides#

Module Title Guide PDF
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Add a Material to a Container How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Attach Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Change the Product of a Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Combine Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Compose Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Create a BOM How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Create a Container How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Create a Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Create a Product How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Create a Product Group How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Detach Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Disassemble an Assembled Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Empty a Container How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Expand/Collapse Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Grade a Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Hold a Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Make Container Available/Unavailable How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Manage BOM Items How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Manage Container Positions How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Manage Product Binning How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Manage Product Group Parameters How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Manage Shipping Information How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Manage Sub-Products How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Open Material Deviation How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Perform Assemble How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Receive Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Release a Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Remove Materials from Container How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Replace an Assembled Material How To
Materials & Containers: How-To How to: Transfer Material Between Containers How To

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