Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Scheduler Users Guide User Manual
Scheduler, Production management
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- Welcome to FactoryTalk Scheduler
- The BizBikes Factory
- The Factory Overview
- Scheduling Features
- Scheduling Concepts
- Finite-capacity scheduling
- Algorithmic sequencing
- Simulation-based sequencing
- Sequencing rules: The key to good schedules
- Operation selection rules
- Picking the correct rule
- Predefined Job Preference
- Minimum Job Tardiness
- Minimum Job Flow Times
- Maximum Facility Capacity
- Resource rules
- Summary of independent operation selection rules
- Summary of standard independent resource selection rules
- Summary of dependent selection rules
- Custom sequencing
- Summary
- Using FactoryTalk Scheduler
- Basic interactions
- Launch and save an application
- Set the planning horizon
- Attach a database
- Create the fcs file
- Develop the shift or time patterns
- Develop a schedule
- The Attributes window
- The Order Trace View window
- Use operation overlap
- Create named views
- Unallocate and reallocate orders
- Manually edit a schedule
- View the Project Pane
- Evaluate a schedule
- Summary
- Schedule Analysis
- Glossary
- Process Plans
- MRP Charts
- Time Pattern Editors
- Index