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Manufacturing, Project and Services · 18 min · 19–20Manufacturing: BoMs, work centres and manufacturing orders
Bills of materials and kits, operations and work centres, manufacturing orders, work orders, quality, maintenance and PLM.
In this lesson
- BoMs, kits and variants
- Manufacturing orders and work orders (Odoo 20 changes)
- Quality, Maintenance and PLM
Key points
- mrp.bom: manufacture, kit, subcontracting; by-products
- mrp.production → mrp.workorder at mrp.workcenter
- Odoo 20: flexible consumption always; ASAP planning; split/reset MOs; Kanban/Gantt work orders
- Quality control points, maintenance requests, PLM change orders
Real-world example
A Lagos table-water factory needed to cost each batch: bottles, caps, labels, water treatment and two operations (fill, pack). A BoM with operations at two work centres with hourly costs gave per-batch cost; quality control points on fill volume and a preventive maintenance plan on the filling machine cut rejected batches by a third.
Questions and answers
Which model is a work centre?
mrp.workcenter.
What does PLM add?
Engineering change orders with BoM versions and approvals.