Planning of work center loading details for a work unit
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Select the “ Work Center Details” tab from the “Plan Capacity” page.
The “Work Center Details” tab page appears:
Enter the following in the “ Work Center Loading Basis” group box:
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Display Option |
Use the drop-down list box to indicate whether time bars need to be grouped by order or by work center. When you select “By Work Center”, the system displays work center-wise the tasks associated with the customer orders / maintenance objects. When you select “By Order”, the system displays the same tasks pertinent to various customer orders / maintenance objects order wise / maintenance object wise. |
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Order # |
The identification number of the customer order, if you have selected “By Order” in the Display Option field. The system displays the schedules for all the tasks / standard procedures to be executed at the various work centers pertinent to the customer order. |
Select the “Get Details” pushbutton.
The “Work Center Loading Details” Gantt chart depicts the following information graphically.
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Order / Object Details |
If By Order is selected as the Display Option, the Work Center # and the Work Unit # are concatenated and displayed in the list section. If By Work Center is selected as the Display Option, the Customer Order # and the Work Unit # are concatenated and displayed in the list section. |
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Timeline |
The dates in sequence, which indicate the start and end dates of execution of the tasks / standard procedures. |
Place the mouse on top of the Gantt chart and then drag / move the Gantt chart to change the timelines to reschedule execution.
More Details
The”Work Center Loading Details” Gantt chart displays the timelines for tasks scheduled for the specified work center. These tasks indicate the maintenance jobs to be performed on a maintenance object with or without reference to a customer order specified by the planner for a specified planning horizon. Planners can identify any work center bottlenecks with regard to tasks and resolve them by,
Reallocating tasks to other work centers / external facilities.
Reschedule the tasks by moving the time bars to an earlier date or a later date.
Note: Planners can analyze / solve bottlenecks associated with problem customer orders based on Job Conflicts Traffic Light display.
Note: Facilities (Tools or Equipments) are not considered for capacity planning. Facility planning can be done as part of execution planning.
Enter the following in the “Load Graph Basis” group box, to generate a load graph for resource.
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Work Center # |
Use the drop-down list box to specify the work center to find out the availability of resources. The system displays the active work centers defined in Work Center business component. |
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Resource Type |
Use the drop-down list box to specify the resource type. The system defaults this field to “Skills”. |
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Resource |
The name / description of the resource. |
The system displays the following.
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From Date |
The start-date of the planning horizon as displayed in the “Planning Details” group box. |
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To Date |
The end-date of the planning horizon as displayed in the “Planning Details” group box. |
Select the “Get Details” pushbutton.
The “Load Graph” multiline displays a graph that depicts the following.
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Available Hours |
Shown in Total hours of skill available for allocation to customer orders / maintenance objects. Available hours = [(Number of Working Days * Normal Time Hours / Day) + Overtime Hours Booked –(No. Of days on Leave * Normal Working Hrs / Day)] * Productivity Factor |
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Firm Booking Hrs |
Shown in Total estimated hours of tasks to be executed in the work center. |
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Plan Booking Hrs |
Shown in Total estimated hours of tasks for the customer orders that are not yet processed / confirmed. |
More Details
The “Resource Load Graph” facilitates the planner to analyze the resource / skill availability in a work center, which faces resource constraint in executing a customer order.
The system generates bar graph representing a specified skill in a work center, for a planning horizon.
Note: You can find out the problem work centers from the “Work Center Loading Details” multiline.
Available hours, firm booking hours and plan booking hours of the skill are displayed.
Specific colors differentiate available hours, firm booking hours and plan booking hourrs based on color coding.
Based on the Plan Horizon type, the system displays load graph day wise, week wise or month wise for a specified resource.
For medium and long term plans, skill loading is not displayed.
While computing the available hours for a skill, only the primary skill of an employee is considered.
Employee leave details are not considered for medium and long-term plans
Planners can now proceed to the “Identify and Resolve Resource Bottleneck” activity to resolve bottlenecks.
Select the “External Repair” pushbutton to execute the task in an external repair shop.
Select the “Internal Repair” pushbutton to release the task from an external repair shop.
Select the “Reset Jobs” pushbutton to reset the jobs to previous values.
Select the “Confirm Schedule” pushbutton to save the schedule details of the customer order.
Note: At least one row must be available in the “ Work Center Details” Gantt chart.
Case 1: If the “Plan End Date” of a task is modified in the “Work Center Details“ Gantt chart, the “Plan End Date” in the “Job Details” Gantt chart is updated automatically in the current business component..
Example:
For a Customer Order “C001” comprising the tasks “T1”,”T2” and “T3”.
Plan Start Date of Customer Order (C001) – 01/08/2008; Plan End Date of Customer Order (C001) – 15/09/2008
Plan Start Date for the Task (T1) - 01/08/2008; Plan End Date for the Task (T1) – 15/08/2008
Plan Start Date for the Task (T2) - 16/08/2008; Plan End Date for the Task (T2) – 31/08/2008
Plan Start Date for the Task (T3) – 01/09/2008; Plan End Date for the Task (T3) – 15/09/2008
If the Plan End Date for the Task (T3) is changed from 15/09/2008 to 20/09/2008, then Planned End Date for the Customer Order (C001) is also changed from 15/09/2008 to 20/09/2008.
Case 2: If the “Plan Start Date” of a task is modified in the “Work Center Details” chart, the “Plan Start Date” in the “Job Details” Gantt chart is updated automatically in the current business component.
Example:
For a Customer Order “C001” comprising the tasks “T1”,”T2” and “T3”.
Plan Start Date of Customer Order (C001) – 01/08/2008; Plan End Date of Customer Order (C001) - 15/09/2008
Plan Start Date for the Task (T1) - 01/08/2008; Plan End Date for the Task (T1) – 15/08/2008
Plan Start Date for the Task (T2) - 16/08/2008; Plan End Date for the Task (T2) – 31/08/2008
Plan Start Date for the Task (T3) – 01/09/2008; Plan End Date for the Task (T3) – 15/09/2008
If the Plan Start Date for the Task (T1) is changed from 01/08/2008 to 28/07/2008, the Planned Start Date of the Customer Order (C001) is also changed from 01/08/2008 to 28/07/2008.
To proceed, carry out the following:
Select the “Job Details” tab to plan job details for the customer order.
