Calculate Work Center Resource Capacity for Manufacturing

Explanation

This activity is used to calculate the capacity for the work center resources on a site. You can perform the calculation for one site at a time or for all the sites to which you have access. You can also schedule this as a scheduled task. The calculation is done from the date of initiation to the date specified in the Calculation to Date field. When there is no date specified in the Calculation to Date field, the last date that an operation is scheduled with a machine requirement is considered as the calculation to date.

Prerequisites

To perform this activity, you will need to have at least one work center resource on the site and that resource needs to be available for at least one day in the time interval.

System Effects

As a result of this activity, the available and theoretical machine hours capacity for work center resource stored in the database for each day is updated.

Window

Calculate Work Center Resource Capacity for Manufacturing
Work Center

Related Window Descriptions

Calculate Work Center Resource Capacity for Manufacturing
Work Center
Work Center/WC Capacity

Procedure

You can perform the capacity calculation either as a background job executed once (Procedure A) or by scheduling the task to execute as a background job at a specified time or on a (Procedure B).

Procedure A:

1. Open the Calculate Work Center Resource Capacity dialog box.
2. Enter the site for which you want to run the capacity calculation in the Site field. Enter % as the site if you want to do the calculation for all the sites to which you have access.
3. Enter the date up to which you need to calculate the work center resource capacity in the Calculation to Date field. When there is no date specified in the Calculation to Date field, the last date that an operation is scheduled with a machine requirement is considered as the calculation to date.
4. Click OK.

Procedure B:

1. Open the Calculate Work Center Resource Capacity dialog box.
2. Click Schedule to open the Create new task schedule window.
3. Set the required scheduling parameters and save. Define the number of days to be set ahead of the calculation from the date the task runs in the Execution Offset To field.

Note: Scheduled tasks can be seen in the Scheduled Database Tasks window.

The Calculate Work Center Resource Capacity dialog box can be opened by right-clicking the header of the Work Center window.