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Repetitive Line Capacity Changes

You can make repetitive schedule adjustments to your repetitive production capacity to reflect short term issues in matching your repetitive production supply and demand. You can also change line attributes such as start and stop time, and production rate to reflect ongoing changes in your repetitive line capabilities.

Temporary Increase in Capacity

You have several options for temporarily increasing repetitive production output. You can increase the production hours on a line by working overtime. You can also increase the production rate by adding workers to a line, or you can increase the load on an underutilized line.

The system lets you temporarily overschedule a production to simulate overtime or production rate increase. You can choose a daily quantity greater than the daily line capacity when you define a repetitive schedule. Overscheduling is interpreted as an increase in the production rate between the defined line start and stop times, not as an increase in the line's production hours.

You can also increase the load on an underutilized line by simply associating the line with the assembly then manually defining a repetitive schedule for the assembly on that line.

Temporary Decrease in Capacity

You have several options for temporarily decreasing repetitive production output. You can decrease production hours on a line temporarily by shutting down the line earlier than usual. You can also temporarily decrease the production rate by reassigning workers to other lines or by temporarily shutting down the underutilized line.

The system lets you underschedule a line any time you define a repetitive schedule. You can choose a daily quantity less than the daily line capacity. Underscheduling is interpreted as running for a shorter interval at the defined production rate and within the line start and stop time.

You can choose not to define schedules on a line if you do not need the supply. As such, the line would likely be underutilized.

Permanent Increase in Capacity

You have several options for permanently increasing your repetitive production outputs. In real life, you can run existing lines longer, you can speed up production on the line, or you can add lines.

To run lines longer or faster, you can change the start and stop times on a line, add days to the workday calendar, or increase the production rate. All new schedules planned and defined after this change reflect these new attributes. Existing repetitive schedules are not impacted.

You can define new lines and associate them with existing repetitive assemblies to increase your repetitive capacity as well.

Permanent Decrease in Capacity

To permanently decrease your repetitive production capacity, you can shorten your production hours, decrease your production rate, or shut down underutilized lines.

The system lets you shorten your production hours by changing line start and stop times or by removing days from the workday calendar. You can also decrease the production rate for a line and all the repetitive assemblies that use the line. All new repetitive schedules planned and defined after this change reflect this new rate. Finally, you can remove a line from production by removing its association to any repetitive assemblies.

See Also

Overview of Creating Repetitive Schedules

Production Line Report

Repetitive Line Report

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