Setting Deletion flag or locking Workcenter.

[Former Member]

hi,

i would like to know what difference it makes in locking the workcenter and setting deletion flag?

which one is a more prefffered method?

i have set lock for a workcenter.

after which i tried to use the same in routing, system displayed only an infomation message "workenter is locked".

it allowed me to go ahead and add the workcenter and save the routing.

Is there any way for system to prompt an error message, when a workcenter with lock is selected in a routing /production order /during confirmations?

thanks in advance

regards

lyroj

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi George,

Locking a workcenter is preventing the workcenter to be used for production.

You can assign it to the routing here in this case it will show a warning. If you have any scenario wherein you don't want any production to happen in the workcenter then you can directly go to the change mode CR02 and set the lock at the workcenter, so this workcenter assigned to the routings will be affected with this change.

Setting deletion flag is related to the process wherein you don't want the workcenter anymore and you want to delete the workcenter from the system. So during the next organization run this workcenter with deletion flag will be picked for consideration to be deleted from the system and it will be deleted, if it does not have any dependency. Let's say if it is attached to a routing which is attached to a production order which still is under production then this workcenter won't be deleted.

I hope this helps you in differentiating both the process. Please let me know if you have any further queries.

Regards,

Abhijeet Guha