• If you have created several processing stations as work centers on one production line , select the bottleneck work center and enter it in the field Production line. This work center is then used as the planning segment.

• If you use the component Line Design to split a production line into individual elements, such as line segments, you must also maintain a line hierarchy in Line Design. In the line hierarchy, you can define a line segment as a planning segment. Otherwise, the system automatically defines the line hierarchy header as planning segment.

• If you do not create the production line as a line hierarchy, the system automatically uses the production line as the planning segment for scheduling and capacity planning. This is only possible if you work with lead time scheduling. If you want to use Sequencing, you must create a line hierarchy for the production line.

Planning table with capacity planning

In order to carry out lead time scheduling and capacity planning, you must enter the planning segment in at least one of the operations in the routing.

The system uses the standard times of the operation, in which the planning segment is used, to carry out scheduling and capacity planning,

From the planning table, you can branch to the line hierarchy to change the planning segment. You can select any work center of the line hierarchy.

Planning table with Sequencing

Scheduling is also based on the planning segment if you work with Sequencing.

If you have entered a sort buffer in the line hierarchy, you can select the planning segment in the line hierarchy, starting from the planning table. The planning segment is then either the line hierarchy header or a line segment that comes directly before or directly after the sort buffer.