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Monday
Mar152010

Create an Interruptible Work Center

Prerequisites:

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Description:

An interruptible work center will accept higher priority work items in the middle of a cycle. Sometimes referred to as 'preempting,' this option causes the work center to set aside the work item it is currently processing to select the higher priority item, process it, then reselect the previous item where it left off. This act of preempting is a bit tricky to get to work properly.

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