Maintaining the Product Wheel
Product Wheels can be created and maintained in the Product Wheel Designer, imported from files, or maintained manually in Phenix.
To maintain product wheels using the Product Wheel Designer, go to Product Wheel Designer.
To import Product Wheels into Phenix from a file, use the work instruction Importing Product Wheels.
To maintain Product wheels manually, without using the Product Wheel Designer, use the work instruction for Maintaining the Product Wheel Manually in Phenix. Direct manual maintenance may be useful to make quick simple changes to the Wheel.
A Product Wheel is a regularly repeating sequence of production. The Product Wheel data in Phenix describes the sequence in which products will be made and the target yield or average quantity of each product to be produced in a normal Wheel cycle. The actual quantities to be produced in each cycle are dependent on either external orders (such as from an ERP system) interfaced with Phenix, or will be calculated by Phenix based on demand and inventory using Phenix’s Plan-To-Make functionality.
A Product Wheel might be the same on every cycle, or it may go through a repeating pattern of several linked cycles where the higher volume products are made on every cycle and the lower volume products are made less frequently. In this case, cycle 1 would be the sequence of products on the first time through, cycle 2, the sequence on the second, cycle 3 the sequence on the third, ...
The Product Wheel's spokes are the products made during a Wheel revolution.
Simple One Cycle Wheel Example:
The Product Wheel below is a simple one cycle wheel, where the same 9 products, spokes, are always made every 7 days.
Four Cycle Wheel Example:
The line below has four cycles, each one week long. Cycle 1 has 36 products or spokes, cycles 2 through 4 each have 37 products. It would take 4 weeks to make every product at the site, however, the highest volume products can be made on every cycle, or once per week. Medium volume products could be made every two weeks, and the lower volume products can be made every four weeks, and distributed among the cycles to equalize volume.
