Hi,

In Odoo, a work center generally represents a machine, workstation, or a functional production unit, not an individual worker. For your Welding department, you should model it as a single Welding work center rather than creating separate work centers for each welder. This keeps your routing and bill of materials simpler and avoids duplicating configuration.

When it comes to capacity planning, Odoo allows you to define the work center’s capacity in terms of the number of resources that can operate simultaneously. In your case, the Welding work center can be configured with a capacity of 10 to reflect that up to 10 welders can work in parallel. This way, scheduling in Odoo will take into account the availability of those 10 resources when planning operations.

For team-based activities like Assembly, where multiple people work together on the same work order, the same principle applies. You can model the Assembly department as one work center and define its capacity based on the number of workers or teams available. Odoo will then manage workload distribution according to that total capacity, ensuring that planning reflects the actual resources you can allocate.

This approach is more efficient than creating a separate work center per worker, since it keeps reporting, costing, and scheduling aligned at the department level while still accounting for the number of people who can work at once.

References:-

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8_G5mKrcxc

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_efmeF3Gp9Y

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uieYaraELOQ

Hope it helps