Crew Work Assignments

The crew reviews the current schedule for the period and begins to assign resources to the current schedule based on the availability of the resources in the crew. Crew resources and availability are displayed in the resource search window following the list of scheduled work. Tasks on the schedule can be moved to allow for plant outages or balancing of individual resource availability for a particular day. During the schedule period, additional work can be added to the current schedule and the crew can revise their work assignments to allow for the changes. You can also move and reschedule existing work. When the scheduled work is done, the work order and schedule is reported as complete. If work is not completed for the schedule period or schedule day, the work is rescheduled.

The Crew Work Assignments program (P48330) enables you to review, assign, or remove resources to and from the schedule of work based on the resource availability for the period and day. The top section of the form supports the filtering and display of the work scheduled for the crew for the schedule period. The supply and demand inclusion rule defined in the processing options of the P48330 program enables you to remove the completed work for the list during the schedule period.

The bottom section of the form supports filtering and display of resources that are available within the crew to complete the work. This section of the form displays the current available hours for each resource for the days within the schedule. You can access the Advanced Resource Search and Select program (P48310S) using the search button for the Resource Number field. This program enables you to search using resource competencies. After you complete a resource search, the system displays the detailed availability and current assignments for the selected resource.

When you are assigning resources, the selected resource is added to the crew schedule tasks that you selected using the crew assigned hours, which are the same as the work order or labor detail estimated hours. For example, you can create a work order with a labor detail step that includes 12 estimated hours. You then schedule that work order detail step to a crew that currently has 12 available hours. You then assign resources to that crew. If you assign two resources to the crew, the system evenly distributes the assigned work between the resources, and assigns each of them 6 hours. You can then adjust the number of hours for each resource using the Assignment Detail form (W48331B). If multiple resources are assigned to a crew schedule, the hours are split evenly between the resources. You can access the Assignment Detail form and adjust the individual assigned hours and dates as required using the link in the assignment column for the More Row options.

Note: If you change the estimated hours on the work order or labor detail steps, the crew schedule assigned hours are updated to reflect this change and the resource assignment hours are updated proportionally. Changing the planned start and finish dates on the work order or labor detail will not update the crew schedule or assignment dates. You must change crew schedule dates using the Crew Scheduling programs.

When reviewing work assignments, you can also review the work order details and assignment details, and run the Assignment Work Sheet report (P48342), which lists the assignment details by crew, supervisor, and individual resource for the schedule period.

After the scheduled work is complete, you use row action options to access either the work order header or work order labor detail, where you can report the status as complete. Work orders that are not completed for the previous day or orders that may not get done in the current period schedule can be moved to a specific date or a different schedule period.

Note: The crew assignment process follows the same general rules as the Resource Assignment program (P48331), except that the assignment is to the crew schedule and not directly to the work order or labor detail. Both applications create resource assignments in the Resource Assignments table (F48331).