Scheduling

All work orders (and underlying sub-assemblies or components) are expanded to their constituent operations and scheduled using manufacturing instruction based operations and times.

Operation details are then combined, by day, to provide the overviews of planned vs available capacity. Available capacities are specified through resource codes which represent the various machines or processes within the enterprise.

Each resource is specified with a daily overall capacity available and maximum capacity to be planned against any one job per day.

In addition a percentage is specified against each day of the week which reflects each days available capacity as a percentage of the normal working hours (e.g. Monday to Thursday may be 100% with Friday being 60% and Saturday being 20% - thus representing a typical early finish on Fridays and morning shift on Saturdays).

All scheduled works orders are viewed and monitored from a work order workbench showing:

Planned start dates (in RED if late) and finish dates.

Source of scheduling data for each work order (manufacturing instructions or quotation or not scheduled).

�Drill down� to see customer order make-up of work order.

�Drill down� to see operation and time make-up of work order.

Graphical calendar based plan identifying when each operation is planned and (in a different color) the actual progress.

Detailed record of time bookings to each operation by employee.

�Drill down� to all associated purchase orders for any work order.

An overview graphical calendar based plan of which weeks each work order is scheduled

A graphical view of scheduled requirement for each resource, against available capacity, that can then be �drilled down� to see the planned work orders for that week.

From this workbench it is also possible to re-schedule an individual work order and print an individual or group of Route Cards.

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Scheduling