How You Manage Production Calendars

A production calendar represents the schedule associated with a maintenance organization using the Manage Plant Parameters page. You can use the Setup and Maintenance work area to define the shifts, workday patterns, and schedules. Oracle Maintenance only supports shifts that are of type Time and shift detail that are of type Punch or None. The production calendar indicates the operational time of a plant as determined by its schedule definition. You can define shift exceptions to make modifications to the shift duration. The shifts and shift exceptions displayed in the production calendar are interpreted in the plant time zone as defined in Manage Inventory Organization Parameters.

The shifts and shift exceptions in a production calendar are applicable for all the resources in the plant. However, a specific shift or a shift exception can be overridden for a resource by specifying the available resource units in the work center resource calendar. This cumulatively determines the resource availability for calculation of lead times and scheduling of work order dates.

Manage Shift Exceptions

A shift exception is a change in the shift assigned to a specific maintenance organization. This exception affects the availability of all shift based work center resources defined within the plant. You can identify shift exceptions and standard shifts on the production calendar. The shift exceptions are also color-coded to for you to analyze with ease.

You use the Manage Production Calendar page from the Maintenance Management Overview page to perform the following tasks:

• Creating a shift exception

• Editing a shift exception

• Deleting a shift exception

Creating a Shift Exception:

You can create a shift exception to add a new shift or make changes to an existing shift for a day or a period of time. The start time and end time displayed, or the start time entered on this page is assumed to be in the plant time zone.

Editing a Shift Exception:

You can only edit a future shift exception. However, you can edit the end date of a current shift exception.

To edit a shift exception, perform the following steps:

1. On the Manage Production Calendar page, click the shift exception in the calendar that you want to edit. Then, from the right-click menu or the Actions menu, select Edit Shift Exception.

2. On the Manage Production Calendar: Edit Shift Exception page, edit the fields that you want to change.

3. Click the Save and Close button.

Deleting a Shift Exception:

You can only delete a future shift exception. To delete a shift exception, on the Manage Production Calendar page, click the shift exception in the calendar that you want to edit. Then, from the right-click menu or the Actions menu, select Delete Shift Exception.