Executing Capacity Planning

The overview screen of the Manage Work Center Capacity app displays a list of the selected work center capacities. You obtain aggregated information for the selected evaluation horizon.

Various filters and display options are available. You can display the maximum load, the time of the first overload, the backlog of overdue orders, and the total capacity requirements. The utilization can be displayed graphically in a chart.

Furthermore, you can display the average load, the time of the first critical load, the overall percentage load and the total available capacity.

The periods of normal load, critical load and overload are displayed in different colors. The limits for the various load criteria can be set individually.

The following video is designed to guide you through the app's functionalities and how to effectively utilize its features for optimal work center capacity management. 

You can navigate from the overview screen to the display of detailed information on a work center capacity.

You can display the utilization chart in the detail view.

In the detail view, you can also display the pegged requirements, that is, the individual operations and orders. You can use the view settings to display a lot of additional detailed information on the operations.

You can also display and interactively change the shifts of the work center capacity in the detail view.

The Capacity Scheduling Table is equipped with a diverse array of features. This demonstration will give you a comprehensive overview of its key functionalities, highlighting how they can be effectively utilized in streamlining your production scheduling process.

In the Schedule Overview, the bottleneck operations of the selected orders are displayed graphically on the time axis. The operations are represented by different graphic symbols depending on the order type and status.

Orders (respectively their bottleneck operations) are dispatched according to the settings in the planning strategy. In the planning strategy, planning mode, scheduling control, and planning direction are defined.

In the order list, you can select several orders (respectively their bottleneck operations) and dispatch them. The orders are dispatched according to the settings in the planning strategy. The status changes accordingly.

In the same way, orders can also be deallocated.

The figure above describes the principle of dispatching several orders in planning mode Bucket. In our example, infinite scheduling in forward direction is also set in the strategy.

In the example, the bottleneck operations with their capacity requirements are displayed as graphic symbols on the time axis for better illustration.

In planning mode Bucket, the operations are dispatched to daily buckets. The system tries to keep the planned dates of the operations. If the sum of the requirements of all operations would exceed the available capacity of the bucket when dispatching an operation, the operation is rescheduled in the planning direction.

In planning mode Bucket, the operations are not dispatched one after the other in a sequence. Therefore, operations can overlap after dispatching.

The figure above describes the principle of dispatching several orders in planning mode Sequence. In planning mode Sequence, the operations are dispatched in sequence.

For an individual order, you can navigate to a detailed order view.

In the order section, the following information is displayed for the bottleneck operation: Required capacity, planned operation dates, and status.

In planning mode Bucket, in the Sourcing section, the available capacities of the available sources of supply (production versions) are displayed in daily buckets.

You can select a source of supply and a bucket with sufficient capacity and dispatch the operation to this bucket.

In planning mode Sequence, in the Sourcing & Scheduling section, time slots with sufficient and/or overlapping capacity are displayed.

You can select a source of supply and a time slot with sufficient capacity and dispatch the operation to this time slot.

Unlike buckets, the available capacity in a time slot is displayed to the second, taking into account operations that have already been dispatched. In this way, the operations are dispatched in sequence without overlapping with other operations.