You will find a general description of Managing Lists in the System in the chapter MONITOR General Information in the MONITOR Basics.
Why Use This Procedure?
This procedure allows you to see the total loading and capacity plan as a total per period for several work centers at a time. You can also perform replanning and change the capacity. Under the List tab you can see all the orders per work center and period. You can also see the supply of man-hours and capacity per department under the Man-hours/dept. tab, and add or replan capacity per department there.
Loading and capacity plans can also be viewed in the Loading / Work Center procedure, for one work center at a time. In that list you will see all orders per work center and period by default.
In the window you will find a Search Form and a loading plan, which is loaded by using the Display List, and it 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.
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.