The PSW lets you build production schedules for production lines, not work centers and operations.

You can use the search preferences to define the sequencing horizon. Click, Options, then Search, to find PSW sequence horizon settings.

The PSW horizon setting is based on calendar days, not the shop calendar, and always shows past due released orders.

Workbench search retrieves items and transaction records based on this criteria:

Question: Which items would not appear on workbench?

For optimum search performance with proper selection criteria, resource naming conventions are important

Question: Can resources be grouped?

Answer: Yes, you can group resources, and in fact, it is logical to group the resources; however, in some instances you may not want to group resources.

You can group resources by entering a Scheduler ID in Work Center Maintenance (14.5) or Production Line Maintenance (18.1.1).

The Sequence Grid lets you concurrently view, both a list of sequenced and non-sequenced jobs (production orders).

The Sequence Grid displays item supply records, that is, production orders, with bucketed quantities of the production order supply records for the item. The records represent the master production schedule for a given period. The summarized quantity values within the Sequence Grid are production order quantities.

PSW shows capacity in hours and units. Units is the total quantity of parts scheduled. Hours is the required capacity for each production order, and required capacity is the run time plus the setup time.

In the PSW, you look at data from a release date perspective, not a due date perspective. Use the MSW to view from a due date perspective.

Production Order Browse within the Planning and Scheduling Workbenches displays production orders with a zero open quantity if the production order is a discrete order. Repetitive scheduled orders with a zero quantity do not display; however, Production Order Browse still displays both production orders and scheduled orders.

Use Production Order Browse to create dynamic queries. You can find those production orders that pertain to your scheduling issues. The system displays browse data by the Run Seq 1 field.

Run sequence fields can be used to control the sequence in which planned orders for line-manufactured items are added to a production line schedule. MRP uses run sequences when planned orders are approved for line manufacture.

If multiple items are produced on a single production line, efficiency can be improved by producing the items in a certain order. Run sequences let you control the order, or sequence, in which items are scheduled on a production line.

An item’s run sequences are sorted by primary run sequence and then secondary run sequence. A two-digit numeric value should be the first characters of a run sequence. This convention provides enhanced control over the sorting of run sequences.

Use the supporting programs to view item details for items shown in the Sequence Grid.

For example, the Item Planning frame displays item master/planning details for a selected item. At any point during the scheduling process, you can refer to the item planning frame to find information to identify lead time, order quantity, and so on. If an item-site record exists, planning data from item-site record display for the selected item-site record. You can modify item details to include information from any field in the Item Master Maintenance.

You can run Production Order Maintenance within the PSW. Production Order Maintenance lets you view individual item production order supply records for items that display in the PSW Sequence Grid.

Production Order Maintenance uses a horizontal layout and supports scheduling of work centers, production orders, and production lines. You can view, monitor, and interact with all operations of a production order independent of the Sequence Grid.

In Production Order Maintenance, the left-side displays production order summaries with the order ID, status, quantity ordered, and release date columns. For each of these fields, you can select to see all, custom, blanks, or non-blanks. If you select custom, the system displays an additional frame to enter additional filter criteria for the field. For example, if you customize data to display for the Qty Ordered field, you can specify operands so that only those orders that equal a quantity ordered of 500 display. You can also add or delete conditions.

Capacity calculations are focused on the release date, not the order due date.

The formula for remaining capacity available by release date/ shift is as follows:

With the rule:

The formula for remaining capacity, in terms of the quantity that can be produced per the resource defined run rate, is as follows:

Required capacity is the amount of time to produce a production order, including both the run time and setup time.

The formula for required capacity for production orders per release date/shift is as follows:

With the rule:

The Open Quantity column displays the value that the system uses to compute the required capacity of the order.

Question: In the screen above that shows the remaining capacity for 11/16 of (8), how is the capacity calculated? See User Guide: Planning and Scheduling Workbenches for the answer.

When you click at the site level in the navigator, the system displays all of the records for all production lines for that site in the Sequence Grid.

Notice on Production Order Browse, the system displays all resources. The Sequence Grid responds to the navigator; however, Production Order Browse does not respond to the navigator.

 

 

It was not intended that filtering would be used on this view during scheduling, but may be useful prior to exporting schedule to excel for shop floor consumption

The browse is structured the view to display records by Run Seq 1 attribute.

In the slide above, a filter was applied to display only un-sequenced production orders.

(1) Focus on Resource ASSY-01. The Sequence Grid only displays resource ASSY-01.

(2) Production Order Browse: The record content is not changed by the Resource Navigator

(3) Production Order Browse: Applied a filter to display only production orders currently assigned to the resource ASSY-01.

In this exercise, you will learn how to retrieve data and review data results in the Production Scheduling Workbench view. You will also learn the difference between the Production Scheduling Sequence Grid and Production Order Browse.

You are ready to review data in Production Order Browse. You can structure the Production Order Browse view to look similar to the Sequence Grid view, which is structured by resource and release date.

In this exercise you will become familiar with:

In this exercise, you review capacity information for past due scheduled production orders.

You wish to determine the required capacity details of a specific production order.

You ran a search that pulled data from multiple production lines and work centers. You are now ready to use the Navigator Panel to target the resources you wish to view and manage on the PSW.

Production Order Browse contains production order records for production lines; however, you wish to display only production orders for a specific production line. You decide to apply a filter to the Production Order Browse.

The Production Order Browse contains production order records for many production lines; for this exercise, you decide to display production orders for a specific production line.

 

Small monitor size/resolution reduces usability.

Usability improves or worsens with monitor and resolution attributes as follows:

You select the fields to display in columns by right clicking on the column, then selecting from the Column pull-down menu. If you want more or different fields to display in the pull-down your IT department can customize the list through the QAD EE Browse Maintenance in .NET UI.