Locations

locations represent the physical or logical areas within a manufacturing site where production, storage or inspection activities take place the location hierarchy is built in a tree structure that provides an easy way to structure your plants digitally a location can represent a plant, a building, production hall, line, cell, work station or storage area location hierarchy enterprise top level for the organization (not visible in the other applications) plant name, description, code, time zone area sub division with name, description production line name, description, code, barcode production cells name, description, code, barcode warehouse name, description, code, barcode row name, description, code, barcode bin location name, description, code, barcode description is what will be shown towards the operators and what can be localized name needs to be unique the principles of both uns & isa 95 structure are used to make the hierarchy the core manufacturing side (enterprise → plant → area → line → cell) is a textbook isa 95 level 0–4 hierarchy the warehouse branch is a practical extension isa 95 distinguishes between physical assets (equipment) and logical groupings (areas, sites) mantsu's 'area' being a pure sub division without a code or barcode reflects that correctly it's a logical grouping, not an operable unit in a uns, the topic namespace typically follows the isa 95 hierarchy as the path structure enterprise/plant/area/line/cell/\<data point> why does it matter? clear, consistent representation of real world layout used in other applications like order cockpit, downtimes and lists barcode & code support → easy system integration full traceability → know who changed what, when scales with complex manufacturing sites