Why Use This Procedure?
In this procedure you can see which loading plan and capacity plan a particular work center has for different periods. You can also perform replanning and change the capacity.
In the window you will find a Search Form and a loading plan which consists of the following four tabs:
Loading
A registered manufacturing order creates a loading plan for the work centers that are used in the preparation. You create the loading based on the information registered in the preparation regarding work centers, setup times, unit times and possible overlapping, as well as the information entered in the Update Work Center procedure regarding the basic time, number of shifts, capacity factors and queue times for each respective work center.
The loading is based on a calendar. This calendar is quite general, but you can register exceptions for those work centers that require them. These exceptions are entered in the Production Calendars procedure. The production calendar allows you to configure certain periods as "free" (such as vacations or holidays), so that no loading will take place during this time. You can also temporarily change shifts, for example if a work center that has two shifts registered in the Update Work Center under periods is now going to run 3 shifts, you can make this change in the calendar for that particular period.
You can also view the loading and capacity plan in the Loading Selection procedure.
Distribution of Loading Time
The time that is shown in the loading plan is calculated backwards, just like during order registration, unless you have performed some sort of "compacting" or "stretching" of the operation’s start and finish date. In the latter, this means that you will always have an even distribution over all work days between the start and finish date. The rest time that appears in the loading plan also includes lead time.
Window Functions
You can export the list.
Read more about the other Window functions under Window Functions in the MONITOR Basics guide.