NTM - New technology mechanism

Poor. Each variant has to be added to the products index and have a separate technology.

Flexible products index and product system wide support. Technology generation.

No system wide support. Some features may be added in the future but we now have to implement them for two types of orders.

Flexible products index and product system wide support. Flexible technology definition.

Number of predefined technologies to enter

Many, you have to enter all the combinations of the whole process

Not required, you have to enter many operation definitions but you can generate all the combinations of technologies easily from them. Also technologies are smaller a we have batter support for splitting them.

We use order with lists for process that cannot be defined elastically in the current technology. However this type of order has no relationships between operation so its less functiona;

Much less, product families and attributes give us more flexible technologies. We also split technologies among production lines. But we still have to enter many technologies if products inside the families need different operations or time/cost norms.

Complex dependencies, splits and joins of the production process

Only simplified to trees

Only simplified to trees

Simplified to trees or none.

Supported

Technologies/Orders for many products

Not supported

Not supported

Supported but only in order with list of oper.

Fully supported

Technologies/Orders to process components

Not supported

Not supported

Supported but only in order with list of oper.

Supported

Support for integration of intermediates in warehouses

Limited. We can separate orders/technologies but we also separate the balance report.

Can be added by adding some configuration to operations outputs options.

Can be added by adding some configuration to operations outputs options.

Configurable on the operation level.

Flexible production counting

You can only report what was predefined in the technology.

Available option to add operations, input/outputs and additional costs while the order is in progress.

Not done to minimize refactor.

Same as in minor refactor.

Individual production

Not supported, requires new full prefedined technology every time.

Technology can be constructed ad hoc per order. It can also be modified during the orders progress. However defining the tree structure instead just a list is often an unnecessary hassle.

Supported but only in order with list of oper.

Very elastic support.

Calculations complexity (cost of maintenance and development)

Simple in current state

The same complexity

Most algorithms and data structures will have to be generalized to support two types of orders.

Some will have to be specialized.

Very complex and not possible if all necessary dependancies are not i place.

Technology auto-generation

Not implemented

Possible from operations definition.

Wont be implemented.

Possible but very complex.

Medium

Medium

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