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Select the “Plan Capacity” link under the “Capacity Planning” business component.
The "Plan Capacity" page appears.
The system displays the following field:
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Date Format |
The format in which the date field is displayed. This format is displayed from the "User Preferences" business component based on the login user ID. In case the format is not defined, the system displays the date format from the "Enterprise Modeling" business component by default. |
The system displays the following in the “Planning Details” group box.
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Planner Code |
The identification number of the login user / employee. |
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Planner Name |
The name of the login user / employee. |
Enter the following in the “Planning Details” group box to find customer orders.
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Planning Basis |
Use the drop-down list box to specify the basis for planning capacity. The system displays the following values: “Work Center", "Sub Fleet" and "Planner Group". |
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Planning Element |
The work center number or sub fleet number or planning object number mapped to the planner group, if you have selected Planner Group in the Planning Basis field. |
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Planning Horizon |
Use the drop-down list box to specify the duration for planning capacity. The system displays the following values: "Short-Term", "Medium-Term" and "Long-Term". |
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Order Type
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Use the drop-down list box to select the type of customer order for which the job details need to be retrieved. The system lists the following options:
Leave this field blank, to retrieve customer orders irrespective of order type as defined in the “Customer Order” business component. The system leaves the field blank by default. |
The system displays the following.
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From Date |
The start-date of the planning horizon. The system defaults this field to the current system date. |
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To Date |
The end-date of the planning horizon. The system defaults this field to a date that is specified number of days later than the From Date. For example, if the Planning Horizon is “Short-Term”, Short-Term is defined as 10 days in the “Set Options” activity and From Date being 01/07/2006, the To Date will be 11/07/2006. |
Select the “Lesser Than” and the “Greater Than” pushbuttons to navigate to the previous and the next planning horizons.
Select the “Get
Details” pushbutton.
To proceed, carry out the following:
Select the “Job Details” tab to plan job details for the customer order.
Select the “Work Center Details” tab to plan work center loading details for a particular work unit.
Select the “Record Order Execution Comments” link to record execution comments of the maintenance job.
Select the “View Hangar Work Order” link to view the hangar work order details.
Select the “View Component Work Order” link to view the component work order details.
Select the “View Customer Order” link to view the customer order details.
Select the “Sch./Re-Sch. Hangar Work Order” link to schedule / re-schedule the hangar work order details.
Refer to “Hangar Work Order” online help for more details.
Select the “Sch./ Re-Sch. Comp.Work Order” link to schedule/ re-schedule the component work order details.
Refer to “Component Work Order” online help for more details.
Select the “Launch PMT to Schedule Work Orders” link to launch the project management template to schedule the work order.
The "Plan Capacity" page enables you to fix the execution schedule for a work order / maintenance object. A planner can do this after ascertaining the availability of work center, parts and, human skills with regard to the work order. Through graphical means, this page depicts the allocated and the available resources. Using this information, the planner can reschedule the already scheduled work orders or move the work order tasks to a another work center where the load is relatively less. All this can be done by dragging / moving the mouse across the Gantt bars. To overcome skill bottleneck, you can move employees to the work center, where the requirement arises or utilize their overtime hours.
Although, you can find out the availability of parts that are required for a work order in this page, material planning for a work order cannot be done here.
In this page,
You can move a task previously outsourced to a repair agency to an internal work center or outsource a task previously allotted to a work center.
Schedule / reschedule a work order / maintenance object.
Tell me more - Job Details Gantt chart
The “Job Details” Gantt chart lists the pending and under progress customer orders / maintenance objects along with the planned start and end dates for the specified planning horizon. It will also list the Prospect and Bid type of customer orders for the matching criteria, if any. Internal maintenance jobs on aircrafts / components are also displayed using Gantt charts. For these orders, you can look for conflicts arising because of schedule and the same can be resolved to facilitate efficient execution. To solve the conflict, you can either move the maintenance job to another work center or re-schedule the order to a future date by dragging and dropping the time bars to the required timeline.
4 Move the customer order time bars across date lines, provided the customer order is not yet released for execution can reschedule the customer order.
4 Specific colors differentiate Firm Orders from Planned Orders of type Bid and Prospect.
4 Customer orders which are not scheduled are listed as Unscheduled in the Job Details Gantt chart.
4 In the “Job Conflicts” multiline, traffic lights in specific colors indicate any conflicts with regard to parts, resources, MEL or EO for the customer orders displayed in the “Job Details” multiline.
Tell me more - Work Center Loading Details Gantt Chart
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,
4 Reallocating tasks to other work centers / external facilities.
4 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.
Tell me more - Resource Load Graph
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.
4 Available hours, firm booking hours and plan booking hours of the skill are displayed.
4 Specific colors differentiate available hours, firm booking hours and plan booking hourrs based on color coding.
4 Based on the Plan Horizon type, the system displays load graph day wise, week wise or month wise for a specified resource.
4 For medium and long term plans, skill loading is not displayed.
4 While computing the available hours for a skill, only the primary skill of an employee is considered.
4 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.