Creating primary resources

Primary and Secondary
LYNQ considers primary resources as employees
and work units and
secondary resources
as Tools. However,
secondary resources
such as skillsets, are not
imported from Enterprise Resource Planning.

Activate
Employees that are not activated will not be able to perform data collection.  Work Units (equipment) which are not activated will not be enabled for reporting of downtime to support OEE calculations.

Licenses
Manual seat licenses are required to activate employees or equipment. Automated device licenses are required for automated devices. Secondary resources do not require licensing.

Resources are defined as personnel, equipment and/or materials.  Resources such as employees and work units are associated to shifts and help define your production capacity.  Resources are typically imported from Enterprise Resource Planning and their settings can be extended further in LYNQ.  Before resources are available for scheduling, they must be associated to a shift.  A default shift can be selected during import of the resource from Enterprise Resource Planning.

Primary and secondary resources are imported:
 

To import Work Units to Visual APS

1. Open Visual APS
2. Click on the Home Menu
3. Click on Import 
4. If Visual APS recognises that there are new Work Units available for import, a Work Unit dialog box will appear
5. At this point, you have the option to declare any default values for the new Work Unit(s)
6. Click OK
7. Select the Work Units to import from the grid view
8. Click on OK

Once imported you will see the work units under the associated work centre in the factory explorer. Note, if tools are supported by Enterprise Resource Planning, these will be included in the import work unit process and can be seen in the factory explorer under the work centre of Tools.


To import Work Units imported into Visual APS to LYNQ

1. From LYNQ select Seat Maintenance
2. Select Seats
3. Select Import
4. Select Import Equipment
5. Select the required Work Units
6. Select OK
7. Double click on the new equipment record to edit properties
8. In the group section, assign the work unit to the appropriate group
9. Click Active
10. Review and select appropriate value for "Planned availability calculated by"
11. Click Save

To import Employees from Enterprise Resource Planning to LYNQ

1. Open LYNQ
2. Select Seat Maintenance
3. Select Seats
4. Select Import
5. Select Import Employees
6. Select the required resources
7. Select OK
8. Double click on the new employee to edit properties
9. In the group section, assign the employee to the appropriate group
10. Review and select appropriate value for "Planned availability calculated by"
11. Click Active
12. Click Save