The Capacity Scheduling Table is a straightforward tool for the capacity leveling of planned, production and process orders. It provides a user-friendly interface that allows you to dispatch and deallocate bottleneck operations of orders transparently and easily.
The Capacity Scheduling Table is specially designed for dispatching orders to pacemaker work centers. In the app, only bottleneck operations that are assigned to a pacemaker work center are considered. You define a work center of a routing as a pacemaker work center by assigning it to the production version as production line.
The Capacity Scheduling Table: Order List
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.
Schedule Overview
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.
Setting the Planning Strategy
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.
Dispatching Orders in the Order List
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.
Principle of Dispatching in the Order List
Principle of Dispatching in Planning Mode Bucket
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.
Principle of Dispatching in Planning Mode Sequence
The figure above describes the principle of dispatching several orders in planning mode Sequence. In planning mode Sequence, the operations are dispatched in sequence.
Order View: Sourcing and Dispatching
Order View: Sourcing and Dispatching in Planning Mode Bucket
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.
Order View: Sourcing and Dispatching in Planning Mode Sequence
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.