Creating a work center

In our previous simplified manufacturing order, we specified the raw product required in a bill of materials, and then turned that into a finished product. Now, we will expand this example to specify the human labor that goes into printing our Class of 2017 T-Shirt. In Odoo, we define the parameters in a work center.

For our example, we will create a work center, Printing, that is responsible for taking the blank T-shirt and applying the design to create the final product. We begin by going to the manufacturing application, and under the Master Data menu, choosing the Work Centers option. Then, we click Create to set up a new work center record:

In our example, we have named the work center Printing. In a full implementation, ...

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