1. Using Production Scheduling
  2. Production Lines

Production Lines

Production lines are scheduled in a manner that spreads the flow schedules with completion date within the same scheduling bucket. Items with given attribute values are distributed evenly across the production lines, based on the flow schedule volume for those attributes.

The spread is based on item attribution from item extensible flexfields that are defined in Production Scheduling Organizations. To spread by item name, populate Item Extensible Flexfield with the name of the item and treat that like any other custom attribute.

Completed flow schedules within the schedule horizon are considered during the schedule calculation to avoid overstating the capacity. This is relevant in the scenarios when a schedule is refreshed sometime during the day and after several flow schedules might have already come off the line and were completed earlier that same day. Completed flow schedules aren't visualized in the Flow Schedules table and Gantt chart and they're solely considered during the schedule calculation.

Availability of required materials and components is checked at the beginning of a scheduling bucket. If not all required materials and components are available for a flow schedule, then it's moved into the next scheduling bucket and sequenced with the flow schedules allocated into that bucket.

Define a production line

To define a production line:
  1. On the Production Schedules page, click Manage Scheduling Organizations.
  2. Select an organization.
  3. Click the Actions icon.
  4. Select the Production Lines option.
  5. On the Production Lines page, click Add.
  6. Select the production line.
  7. Select a scheduling strategy:
    • If you select Rule-based sequence, the solve action spreads the flow schedules within a scheduling bucket based on item attributes. It ensures that appearance ratios and run sizes align with the volume of flow schedules with specific attribute values, relative to the total volume in the bucket.
    • If you select Attribute sequence, the solver considers the specified attribute and attribute value sequences, but not the flow sequencing rules.