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Work Order
Operations Management

Work Order

Formal instruction authorizing specific production, maintenance or service work to be performed.

Examples

  1. 01A maintenance work order for the press tells the technician what to do, which parts to take and how much time is planned.
  2. 02In the daily review, open work orders are linked to safety, quality and delivery risks, so the most urgent are done first.
  3. 03Before a work order changes a machine setting, operations checks its effect on product quality and the production plan.

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