Capacity Planning - An overview
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The Capacity Planning component is a planning tool that enables planners to plan and schedule the execution of maintenance jobs.
The central / work center planners can use this component to overcome any bottlenecks involving time schedule, work center, parts or employee skills. They can find out the available as well as the allocated parts, skills and work center capacity with regard to a customer order or maintenance object. At the same time, they can trace and resolve any bottlenecks before setting the schedule for a customer order. This becomes crucial in an environment that has multi-location maintenance facilities with varied capabilities, which cater to time-bound maintenance of equipments.
Note: Maintenance jobs can be scheduled for customer orders, aircrafts or components.
This component aims to simplify the complex function of capacity planning, by enabling the planners to balance load across work centers / facilities for scheduled / unscheduled maintenance of aircraft and its sub-systems. The maintenance work for an entire customer order can be planned on a day-to-day basis.
Planners can find out capacity load information for customer orders that are pending or in-progress, as well as orders that are planned but not confirmed.
Employee skill shortage for a customer order can be resolved through the following means,
Moving employee with the required skill to the work center / organization unit where necessary
Overtime
External repair
Alternate work center
Similarly, rescheduling the maintenance job to a future date or moving the job to an alternate work center can solve work center / time bottlenecks
To overcome part bottlenecks, planners can define sourcing strategies including
Alternate warehouse
Alternate stock status
Alternate part
Purchase
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