Production Schedule

The Production planning -> Production schedule shows all the Manufacturing Orders that have been scheduled. This page allows:

• seeing all the scheduled manufacturing orders in a Calendar and Gantt chart views.
• dynamic drag-and-drop rescheduling of manufacturing orders and operations,
• accessing the details of an MO.

Jump to:

1. Tips and tricks.
2. Color coding of the calendar.
3. Dynamic drag-and-drop rescheduling of Manufacturing Orders.
4. Mass rebooking parts of all planned Manufacturing Orders.
5. What options are available for rescheduling manufacturing orders?
6. How to view the Gantt chart of production operations?

Tips and tricks

• Click and drag to reschedule an order. Started or finished operations cannot be rescheduled.
• Click on a calendar entry to see details and to access the Administrative view of an MO.
• Click Rebook parts for all MO to rebook parts to all planned MOs.
• Click on the Gantt button to access the Gantt charts.
  
• In the Calendar view, use the tab menu above the calendar to change the view between "Manufacturing Orders" or "Operations"
• In the Gantt chart view, use the tab menu above the chart to change the view between "Manufacturing orders" and "Workstations".
• Click Choose columns to choose which information to display.
• The first day of the week is defined in Settings -> System settings -> Regional settings.
• To find a particular order, click the Search button in the upper right corner of the page. A popup with a filter will open.
  To remove the filter and see all orders, click the Search button again. Then click the Clear button.

Color coding

The backdrop color indicates the current progress:

• Not started, the planned start time is in the future;
• In progress;
• Paused;
• Finished;
• (Red striped) Overdue. Should have been already started, if not started. Should have been already finished, if not finished.

The text color indicates the availability and status of parts.

Dynamic drag-and-drop rescheduling

Both manufacturing orders and operations can be dynamically rescheduled dragging and dropping them to the desired time in the Calendar and Gantt charts views at Production planning -> Production schedule.

Demonstration video of drag-and-drop rescheduling in Gantt charts: https://youtu.be/kKWHCSZFKh0?t=654

When using drag-and-drop in the calendar view:

1. The software will not allow overbooking a workstation. The next available times in workstation schedules will be found for operations.
2. Next operations in the same MO will be rescheduled.
3. If materials will not be available by the time, a pop-up appears, asking whether to move MO start to when materials will be available.

When using drag-and-drop in the Gantt charts view:

1. It is possible to choose:
   - In case of an overlapping conflict, if overbooking of workstations is allowed.
   - If the next operations in the same MO will be rescheduled.
2. The software will not check for material availability.

Important note:

• The software will only reschedule the manufacturing order which has been dragged to a new time, other manufacturing orders will not be rescheduled.

See also: 

• What options are available for rescheduling manufacturing orders?

Mass rebooking of parts and materials

At Production planning -> Production schedule it is possible to click the Rebook parts for planned MOs Rebook materials button to rebook parts for all planned MOs.

This function does the following:

1. All Manufacturing Orders in status "Scheduled", "Not scheduled", and "New" are looked up.
2. All materials booked to these MOs are released.
3. Starting from the earliest MO, according to start time, materials are booked to all MOs.

When a Manufacturing Order is scheduled, then materials are booked to it according to the FIFO principle (or FEFO, if expiry dates are used). However, in certain cases, this may not provide FIFO consumption of materials from stock. This function can help to align the order of MOs with the right order of consumption. This may happen, for example, when:

1. new MOs are scheduled to earlier times than previously created MOs,
2. the order of MOs is changed.

If you wish to only rebook materials of select MOs, you can do it by opening these MOs and clicking on buttons Release all booked parts and Book all parts.

Gantt chart

Besides the calendar view, the production schedule can also be viewed as a Gantt chart of:

1. Manufacturing Orders, or
2. Workstations load.

Demonstration video of drag-and-drop rescheduling in Gantt charts: https://youtu.be/GOmZuRnZvVM

For seeing the Gantt chart:

1. Go to Production planning -> Production schedule.
2. Click on the Gantt chart button.

For changing Gantt chart views, use the drop-down menu above the chart to change the view between

1. Manufacturing orders - to see the Gantt chart of Manufacturing Orders. Click on the + button next to the MO number to expand its operations.
2. Workstations - to see the Gantt chart of the loading of workstations.

Setting the date range:

1. Change the date range from a predefined date range or set custom dates.
2. Click on a month or a day in the Gantt chart header to zoom in.