Features
Using PSW, you can build production schedules with full knowledge and visibility of resources, production orders, items, the shop floor, and more. Besides just scheduling items, you can:
• Determine production order status and whether they are sequenced or nonsequenced.
• Determine production progress by displaying shop floor activity
• Define the sequence horizon and configure the display.
• Modify orders and order quantities.
• Create, delete, copy, and split production orders.
• Modify production order status or duration.
• Calculate order dates.
• Define defaults, shifts, and sequences.
• Sequence/unsequence production orders.
• Dispatch production to the shop floor by printing dispatch lists, picklists, production orders.
Drag and Drop
You can easily modify aspects of a production order by dragging and dropping production orders within the PSW Sequence Grid and from Production Order Maintenance to the Sequence Grid. When you drop an order onto another order, the order you drop acquires the properties of the receiving order, so, for example, if you drag and drop an unsequenced order onto a sequenced order, it becomes a sequenced order. Use the drag-and-drop method to:
• Change due dates by dragging and dropping a production order from one release date to another production order with a different release date.
• Change status by dragging and dropping a selected order. When you do, PSW updates the production order status to F if the status is P.
• Modify resource capacity by dragging and dropping from the source to the target destination after you select a single or multiple production orders.
• Sequence production orders in PSW by dragging and dropping single or multiple orders after a sequenced production order. Once you drop the orders, the system assigns the sequence number to the order(s) as greater than the prior sequenced numbers and assigns the appropriate shift number if shifts are being used.
• Unsequence an order by dragging a sequenced order and dropping it after an unsequenced order. The system changes the sequence to 0. When you do not have unsequenced orders, you can unsequence by changing the sequence number to zero.
Quick Find
You can use the Quick Find feature in the toolbar to quickly locate orders. You can enter text or numbers in the Quick Find feature, then scroll through records. You can use the Quick Find feature in the PSW, too; however, since the PSW has a shorter window and does not show planned orders or orders with a zero (0) open quantity, this restricts data that displays in the PSW, resulting in limited displayed orders. When you use the Quick Find feature, the order may or may not be visible in the PSW. You should switch to the MSW and find the order using the next/previous buttons.
For more information, see
Workbench Elements.