Analysing late or at risk orders and operations

Those late or at risk orders and recommendations in Manufacturing display the same colour codes as those late or at risk orders and recommendations in Graphical Planner.

If any of the orders in the Unscheduled Operations window are late or at risk, they are identified by automatically defined colours.

• Yellow represents At Risk. The order is in the safety lead time calculation and due date.
• Red represents Late. The order is scheduled after the due date.

In the Overview, late or at risk orders and operations are outlined with the corresponding colour of those operations in the Unscheduled Operations window. This is in addition to the bar tool colours which you can use to help you identify products, orders, order statuses, priorities, product categories and demand.

Note: For easier analysis, you can enlarge the view using View > Zoom and Scale.

You can solve late or at risk orders by:

• Reducing the manufacturing time.

This can be done in the following ways:

Increase resource capacity

You can increase resource capacity by adding an overtime shiftA working period identified as a calendar state. which will help enable operations to be completed by their due dates.

Move operations between resources

If you are concerned about meeting a required due date once the operation has been placed on the Overview window, you can move the operation to another resource.

Note: You must ensure that you take into account the appropriate resources. If you don't, the plan will not reflect realistic information. Ensure that your primary resource groups contain the appropriate resources.

Defining Groups in Manufacturing

The Group field in Machine Register or Labour Register determines whether the resources in Graphical Planner are contained in a group. If more than one resource belongs to the same group in Manufacturing, Graphical Planner allows you to place an operation onto any resource in the group in the Overview window.

• Seeking customer agreements for delay.

Once you have sequenced the operations and have moved them around, you can see the effect by highlighting them.

You can highlight an operation by selecting options from the Locate  icon drop-down on the Standard toolbar, or by right-clicking on an operation and selecting a highlight option.

1. Identify those operations or orders that are at risk.
• Click the Highlight Operations in Delivery Buffer  or Highlight Orders in Delivery Buffer  icons on the Locate drop-down list.

The at risk operations or orders are highlighted in the Overview window.

2. Identify those operations or orders that are late.

• Click the Highlight Late Operations  or Highlight Late Orders  icons on the Locate drop-down list.

  The late operations or orders are highlighted in the Overview window.

Open: View > Reports > Orders > At Risk.

A report is generated specifying all of the at risk orders.

Open: View > Reports > Orders >Late Orders or Late Operations By Due Date or Late Operations By Reference Date.

Reports are generated specifying late orders, or late operations.

Open: View > Edit Mode > Calendar Display Mode.

1. Right-click on a resource and select Edit Calendar, or double-click on an operation.

   The Calendar Period window appears.

2. Select the Overtime Template.

3. Under Details, select Override State alongside Efficiency %. Enter an Efficiency % value, if required.

   Note: This reflects the use of resources which are different from the standard length of time. For example, setting Efficiency % to 200 will cause the operation to be completed in half the time.

4. Under Apply Changes to Resources, select the resources you want to apply these changes to.

5. Click OK.

   The overtime is displayed in the Overview window. The shifts are automatically extended for the resources you selected.

6. View the added shift.
• Select View > Calendar Display Mode > Show All Calendar to show calendars.

• Select View > Display Priority > Calendar on Top.

  The overtime shift is displayed on top of the operation in the Sequence Overview.

7. Click the Repair Schedule  icon on the Sequence toolbar.

   This adjusts the Overview window to take into account the extra capacity.

8. Click the Save  icon on the Standard toolbar.

After a shiftA working period identified as a calendar state. has been assigned to a resource, you may realise that you have made a mistake and want to reapply it to another instead. You can delete the shift by immediately undoing the action or by changing the shift back to its out of shift state. For example, the Overtime shift that was used to increase a resource's capacity was placed on the incorrect resource.

You can:

1. Delete the shift immediately:
• Click the Undo  icon on the Main toolbar.

The shift reverts back to its original state.

2. Change the availability of the resource:

   From the View menu, select Edit Mode > Calendar Edit Mode.

• Double-click on the operation that you want to delete the shift from.

  The Calendar Period window appears.

• Change the Template from Overtime to Off Shift.

  Under Details, the Efficiency % is automatically set to 0.

• Click OK.

  The shift is no longer displayed as Overtime.

Manually:

• Drag the operation in the Sequence Overview from the current resource in the resource group, and drop it in the appropriate time frame of another resource.

Note: A circle with a bar across it appears if the operation cannot be performed by the selected resource. For example, a sawing operation cannot be put on a drilling machine resource. We recommend validating and repairing the schedule following any manual adjustments.

By validating and repairing the schedule:

1. Check the sequencing of the operation.

• Click the Validate Schedule  icon on the Main toolbar.

  This checks for any errors. If there are any problems, a message appears for that operation.

  Note: More than one message may appear, depending on the impact of the placement. The operations may be out of sequence, or the operations may overlap.

• Click Yes to continue the validation.
2. Repair the scheduleThe name of the default schedule file. It also refers to the production schedule represented by the sequencer Overview window in Graphical Planner..
• Click the Repair Schedule  icon on the Sequence toolbar.

This assesses the whole schedule and assigns the operation to the first available resource.

3. Click the Save  icon on the Main toolbar.

   Note: If the operations are locked, they will not be moved during a Repair Schedule action.