Defines and organizes the product families.
A production family is a group individual items whose relationship is based on the similarity of their manufacturing processes.
Forming production families can optimize material consumption. For example, in the production of several different calculator models where models may share the same processes and need the same kind of capacity, regardless of the model variations.
In the Quantity field in the Family window, you enter the quantity that will be produced when the whole family has been manufactured once.
Example
In punching processes, four pieces of the same item can be produced from one sheet and 10 pieces of another, different, item at the same time. The punching machine will punch all 14 pieces in one step.
Forming production families reduces the scrap quantity because what would normally be leftover scrap, when producing big pieces, will be used instead to produce small items.