Consider Resource Capacity Changes Due to Maintenance Work Orders in Production Schedules
Previously, you had to manually add downtimes to your production schedule after each schedule refresh. With this update, resource availability in a production schedule now accurately reflects downtimes due to maintenance work orders from Oracle Cloud Supply Chain Execution, improving the overall feasibility of the production schedule.
New Schedule Options Determine How Maintenance Work Orders Are Considered in the Schedule
The set of work orders in a production schedule is derived from the schedule scope definition, specifically the organization, the item categories, and the schedule horizon, that are maintained in the schedule options. All work center resources associated with these work orders and their work definitions also are part of the schedule.
If in the schedule options, the option Consider maintenance downtime in manufacturing schedule is selected as shown in the screenshot, then the maintenance work orders for assets, associated to a work center resource contained in the schedule will also be considered, if they fall inside the schedule horizon.
New Schedule Options Determine How Maintenance Work Orders Are Considered in the Schedule
The solve process respects a maintenance work order’s start time, which is maintained in Cloud Supply Chain Execution.
Maintenance work orders are treated analogous to calendar events, reducing a work center resource’s capacity. A manufacturing work order operation can commence prior to the start of a maintenance work order, pause for the duration of the maintenance, and then resume once maintenance is complete.
For a work center resource that is setup in Cloud Supply Chain Execution with default units available greater than one, the maintenance work order for that work center resource will reduce the resource capacity units in Production Scheduling by one unit for the duration of the maintenance work order.
If the advanced schedule option Respect resource calendar during changeovers is selected, then resource downtimes and maintenance work orders will be considered while performing production changeovers such as setups and cleanups. If it isn't selected, then production changeovers may be scheduled during resource downtimes and maintenance.
Firm work orders are not impacted by maintenance work orders, even if this results in a firm work order overlapping a maintenance work order. Such overlaps are visible in the Gantt chart, and you can decide to either change the timing of the maintenance work order or to move the firm work order to achieve feasibility.
Maintenance Tab and Gantt Visualization
A maintenance work order on a resource with default units available greater than one is visible on the parent row only. If multiple maintenance work orders are scheduled on a resource with overlapping start and end times, then they are displayed with vertical offsets.
Selecting a row in the Maintenance tab will select the corresponding maintenance work order in the Gantt chart, and vice versa. To find specific maintenance work orders, you can filter by work order or resource in the Maintenance tab or use the Filter by Gantt Selection capability.
To change the timing of a maintenance work order for scenario purposes within Production Scheduling, you can enter a Start Time Override in the Maintenance tab. The Start Time Override is considered by subsequent Solve actions, but is not synchronized to Cloud Supply Chain Execution because maintenance work orders are not included in Production Scheduling’s release process. You can use the deep link to easily navigate from Production Scheduling to the maintenance work order in Cloud Supply Chain Execution and enter desired changes there.
In addition to runtime, changeover time, downtime, and idle time, the Resource Utilization view also shows the maintenance time for a resource or resource group by day or by week.
Steps to Enable
Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.
Offering: Supply Chain Planning
Tips And Considerations
If you want to use the Consider Resource Capacity Changes Due to Maintenance Work Orders in Production Schedules feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Production Scheduling. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again
Key Resources
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Access Requirements
Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access this feature:
- Edit Production Schedule (MSC_EDIT_PRODUCTION_SCHEDULE_PRIV)
This privilege was available prior to this update.