Understanding Labor Plans

Use the labor plan to review the demands that maintenance tasks place on the labor resources. When you generate a labor plan, the system generates messages that alert you to over-capacity or under-capacity conditions. You can adjust the labor resources accordingly, or reschedule selected maintenance tasks to alleviate the over-capacity or under-capacity conditions.

When the system generates a labor plan, it updates several forms and generates a variety of messages. You can review these forms and messages to plan the resource units that are needed to complete the maintenance tasks. The forms and messages include this information:

Form	Description
Labor messages	You can quickly identify over-capacity and under-capacity conditions by reviewing labor messages. You can review messages for an individual work center or for a dispatch group. A dispatch group consists of related work centers that report to one business unit. Dispatch groups enable you to organize work centers according to common functions, similar operations, or steps in routing.
Capacity load	You can use capacity load to analyze the difference between the required labor resources (load) and the available labor resources (capacity) for any time period that you specify. You can review load versus capacity for a dispatch group or for individual work centers within the dispatch group.
Period summary	You can review detailed information about the work orders that are scheduled to be completed within a time period that you specify. You can also review a summary of the total capacity load for all work orders within a time period.