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Use

Using this function, you can check the operating time load of a production line or a line segment. Here, you can set the length of the periods by means of a user-defined period split. For example, you can evaluate the first two days of the period of examination in shifts and the rest of the week and the following weeks in days. These evaluation periods are independent of the planning periods in Sequencing.

Integration

The system also uses the user-defined period split for the REM planning table . The planning table displays the periods in the columns according to the period split.

Features

The evaluation of the line load displays the following values:

  • Start date, start time, finish date and finish time of the evaluation periods.

  • The evaluation period.

This is the time for which you want to evaluate the operating time load. Here, the system proceeds on a calendar week or a monthly basis. If, for example, you evaluate Monday and Tuesday in days and then proceed in weeks, the system first displays the rest of the first week from Wednesday to Sunday as the evaluation period. Then it proceeds on a weekly basis.

  • Available time.

This is the time, according to the shift program that is available for dispatching orders in the evaluation period.

  • Maximum quantity.

This is the maximum quantity you can produce in the time available with the maximum production rate.

  • Operative quantity.

This is the quantity you can produce in the time available with the planned production rate.

  • Production time.

This is the time you require in the period in question to produce the planned orders already dispatched and the planned orders not yet dispatched.

  • Operative production quantity and production quantity.

This is the sum of the order quantities of all planned orders whose order start dates lie in the period in question.

  • The production quantity contains the planned orders which have already been dispatched and the ones which have not yet been dispatched. The system always sets the start date of the orders still to be dispatched to the beginning of the planning period. If, for example, you work with a planning period of one day and you carry out the evaluation by shift, the system includes the orders still to be dispatched in the first shift.

  • If you do not use material-dependent production rates for scheduling, the operative production quantity and the production quantity are identical.

  • If you use material-dependent production rates for scheduling, the production quantity determines the actual total of the order quantities. The operative production quantity then determines the order quantities you could have produced in the same production time if you had not defined any material-dependent production rates. Here, the system projects the planned production rate to the production time.

  • Maximum load

The maximum load is the quotient of the operative production quantity over the maximum quantity.

  • Operative load

The operative load is the quotient of the operative production quantity over the operative quantity.

Activities

From the sequence schedule, select a visualization segment and choose  ( ) to display the line load.