Compose a Process

Process, Compose, Model a supply chain, Inputs, Outputs, Emissions, Unit process

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Introduction

A Process in Makersite contains manufacturing process/assembly/recipe with raw materials, energies, waste, emissions, and resource data etc. to reflect the manufacturing of products. Once a Process is established a full supply chain is available.

Overview

Generate a Ball Pen manufacturing process:

  1. Generate a process from the composer

  2. Enter relevant information in the description window

  3. Save and enter the product object

  4. Enter Inputs and Outputs to the process

  5. Open the “Product Model” to see and navigate the supply chain

Step 1

Navigate from the dashboard to the Compose view, then select Process from the grid.

Step 2

The data entry window opens after clicking on Process. Now go through and enter the data. Please see some example information in the screenshot below. 

Additionally, Images and a My Drive folder can be added to the product group. 

Note: The fields 'Product Group', 'Boundary' and 'Description' are mandatory. 

Step 3

After pressing save the process page will open in Compose view.

Step 4

  • Go to the input tab and add Product Groups to the inputs. 

  • The inputs are describing the materials, energies and transports. 

  • Treatment activities such as waste handling or injection moulding are also modelled as input: this way of modelling is called activity based modelling and is the preferred way of modelling of Makersite. 

Add now the material inputs as shown in the following example:

Note: The 'Preferred Route' offers the option to choose a preferred manufacturing route for a material, energy…. Specially for inputs with multiple possible manufacturing processes this is of relevance. E.g. Three technologies can produce sodium hydroxide. If nothing is chosen, the default setting of Makersite will be chosen. This is in most cases the production mix or import mix. 

Complete the inputs as shown in the figure below: 

Step 5

You can now open the Product Model app, the supply chain has now been fully established and is now ready for use.

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