Routing & Dispatching: How To#

In any manufacturing environment, it’s necessary to define in a controlled manner the different process flows that can be assigned to products and materials. These process flows can also include rework flows to recover material from certain problems.

Dispatching provides a mechanism to define flexible material sorting rules for a step or for a resource so that the operator knows what is the next material to be processed, or the next resource for a material. Dispatching works based on services. Resources provide services and materials require services at certain processing contexts (Step, Flow, Product, etc.). When there is a match between the service required by the material and the service provided by the resource, the material can be dispatched and processed in that resource.

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