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  2. How You Override the Plant Production Calendar with One or More Date-Effective Work Center Calendars

How You Override the Plant Production Calendar with One or More Date-Effective Work Center Calendars

Enable a new region for Work Center Calendar by selecting the Override Schedule check box in the Manage Maintenance Work Center task. The new Work Center Calendar region allows you to plan ahead your resources based on the associated Work Center resources availability, calendars association, and calendar effective dates.

A segment of maintenance, deals with the staggered production stages and seasonal demand changes, requiring more flexibility than a single production calendar for the entire maintenance plant. Rather than modelling these variations as work center resource exceptions and shift exceptions, the team prefers a streamlined production calendar that reflects their daily capacity, availability, and shift schedule.

You can override the plant-level calendar at the work center level by associating a different calendar for a specific date range effectivity. All resources belonging to the work center inherit their capacity and operating times from this override calendar to facilitate manufacturing and maintenance of more accurate work order planning and scheduling. You can associate multiple calendars to the work center for different date effectivity ranges to model variations in production capacity and working or non-working times.

Here are some examples that illustrate scenarios that leverage work center calendars:
  • Staggered Production Operations: The packaging operation can't start simultaneously with the prior processing operation and thus needs a different shift schedule for each work center.
    • Operation 20: Processing work center - shift details: 6:00 AM - 2:00 PM, Monday - Friday
    • Operation 30: Packaging work center - shift details: 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM, Monday - Friday
  • Seasonal Demand: The number of available units of resources and working hours are scaled up to meet holiday demand for 2 months then revert back to the original schedule for the remainder of the year.
    • Processing work center - standard calendar - shift times: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Monday - Friday, 1/1/23 to 10/31/23.
    • Processing work center - holiday calendar - shift times: 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Monday - Saturday, 11/1/23 to 12/31/23.

Multiple work center calendars within a plant improve plant operations flexible planning and scheduling based on the resource capacity and availability that more accurately reflect rolling schedule needs, seasonal demand, and the real-life production environment.