Hi everyone!

I am having trouble understanding machine setups in baan 4c.

ie. I have 3 end products all using the same machine.

In the routing for each product, do I use a machine qty. of .33, or do I use a qty. of 1.

The products are not being run simutaneously.

I am being told to use a qty of 1. This is confusing me because I though that this would overstate my capital cost for the product. When comparing my std capital cost for these 3 products to the actual, would it not be 3 x greater.

If anyone could please help or provide any documentation, please do so. This is driving me crazy.

Thankyou

Dear mem1477,

Pls record your Baan version in your user profile. Since I don't know your Baan version, I'll be speaking in terms of B5c.

To arrive at the correct standard machine costs:
Define the average machine hourly costs correctly (as operation rates of the work centre/task the machine is connected to or as machine rate, depending on your parameter set up)
Define the correct production rate (production output speed) for each product
Define correctly the number of machines needed in the production of each product. If during certain production operation of an item only 1 machine is used (i.e. you don't have 2 or more concurrent machines running), then specify number of machine as 1
If the steps above are done, then each product will have correct std machine cost, no matter how many products are using the same machine

Rgds,
Paul