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As a graphical interface that shows production information, the Graphical Sequence Planning page allows you to quickly change to different dates and time periods, search for specific resources or tasks, change the appearance of the page, and of course, view the production information using a Gantt chart.

Graphical Sequence Planning

This section provides an overview of how to navigate this page, change settings, and so on.

Go to Date

The Go to Date field allows you to move to a specific date in the chart.

Zoom to ...

Just below the Go to Date field is the Zoom to ... drop-down, which allows you to change the view to different time periods. The options are Month, Week, Day, Half Day, Hour, Half Hour, and Minute.

Work Center Group

Next to the Zoom to ... drop-down is the Work Center Group filter, which allows you to filter the Graphical Sequence Planning view to only show work centers within a work center group.

Search through Tasks

Next you can search through sequence work centers or production orders. This is a free text field so you can enter full or partial names of sequence work centers or production orders and then press Enter or choose the Search button to find all sequence work centers or tasks with the search criteria. The filtered entries can be cleared by choosing the Clear button.

Chart Layout

The left pane shows the sequence work centers (aqua = needs to be rescheduled) and related production orders and the right pane shows the corresponding work center workload (green = capacity available and red = capacity overload) as well as the related scheduled production orders below.

For information about working in the Graphical Sequence Planning page, see Usage.

Resource Charts

Below the chart are the Resource charts options, which determine what capacity information is shown in the chart. Both are described below:

  • Free – No filtering, all capacity usage is displayed.
  • Used – Shows only the times in which capacities are not available for planning.

Sort Tasks by

Below the chart is the Sort Tasks by drop-down that allows you to sort the tasks in different ways. For example, instead of sorting them by message, which is the default, you can sort by item number or start date-time.

Sort Resources by

You can also use the Sort Resource by drop-down to sort resources either by Message or Work Center No.

Context Menus

On both sides of the chart, context menus can be opened to provide additional information about the sequence work center or production order. Tap and hold (or right-click) the sequence work center or production order to open the context menu.

For detailed information about these menu items, see Planning Pool & Sequence Planning in the COSMO Process Manufacturing content.

  • For the sequence work centers:

    • The Planning Pool menu item opens the Planning Pool entries for this sequence work center.
    • The Work Center Card menu item opens the related sequence work center card.
    • The Sequence Planning menu item opens the Sequence Planning page filtered on the selected sequence work center.
    • The Capacity Ledger Entries, Planning Dimensions, Comments, Load, and Statistics menu items opens the relevant pages for the selected sequence work center.
    • The Schedule menu item opens the Sequence Pl. Start Advanced dialog box, which will schedule the entries of the selected sequence work center.
    • The Maintenance-/Setup menu item opens another menu that allow you to perform the standard maintenance-/order functions from Sequence Planning.
    • The Optimize Planning menu item opens another menu that allow you to perform the standard priority planning and setup optimization functions from Sequence Planning.

  • For the production orders:

    • The Components Planning Pool Card menu item opens the Components Planning Pool filtered on the selected production order.
    • The Production Order Card menu item opens the related production order.
    • The Item Availability by menu item opens the standard item availability options.
    • The Reservation Entries, Dimensions, Manufacturing Dimensions, Routing, and Components menu items open the production order information for the specific line.
    • The Item Tracking Lines menu item opens the Item Tracking Lines if the item on the production order line is item tracked.
    • The Production Journal menu item opens the Production Journal if the line belongs to a Released Production Order.
    • The Reverse, Change Work Center, Change Status, Planning Maintenance-/Setup Job, and Set Start Order menu items allow you to perform the standard functions from Sequence Planning.
    • The Fix Prod. Order Line / Remove Prod. Order Line Fixation menu item allows you to set or clear the Fixed in Sequence checkbox on the related Sequence Planning line.
    • The Show used Work Center Production Rates and Show Capacity Warning menu items allow you to perform the standard functions from Sequence Planning.

Tooltips

To view a tooltip, tap (or hover over) an entry. For the production orders, the tooltips show the production order information including description, number, Start/End Times and Due Date of the production order, whether the production order is fixed, and the sequence position from the Sequence Planning line.

Chart Changes

The bottom of the page contains controls that allow you to change the appearance of the chart.

Expand/Collapse all rows

The first two icons allow you to either Expand all rows or Collapse all rows in the left pane of the chart.

Zoom In/Zoom Out/Zoom to fit into page

The third and fourth icons allow you to zoom into or out of the time periods in the right pane of the chart. The fifth icon allows you reset to a month view that will fit into the page.

Displays menu to choose visible columns

The sixth icon allows you to add columns to the chart area. This is especially useful because you can add Start and End Times for the production orders, as well as other production-related information.

Language

The Language drop-down allows you to change the information on the pages to English, German, French, Spanish, and Hungarian.

Style

The Style drop-down allows you to change the color of the chart area, including text, as well as the control icons at the bottom of the page.

Note

The custom option works with the TreeGrid CSS defined with EJS TreeGrid 16.1.2.

Gantt

The Gantt drop-down allows you to change the color of the Gantt area of the chart.

Note

The custom option works with the TreeGrid CSS defined with EJS TreeGrid 16.1.2.

Size

The Size drop-down allows you to change the size (height) of the rows in the chart area.

Scale

The Scale drop-down allows you to change the size of the chart area.

Contrast

The Contrast drop-down allows you to change the contrast between the foreground and background of the chart area.

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