Efficiency & Utilization
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The Efficiency & Utilization Display gives the planned hours, actual hours, variance and variance percent for resources, pools or departments.  From the Mfg Orders Job Grid, select Displays | Efficiency & Utilization and the following  window appears with an empty grid:



Select the resources you want to display and press the Search button.  The example below shows and example of the Efficiency & Utilization Display: 



The grid displays the efficiency and utilization of the resources selected.  For the Variance %:


  1. If the variance is 100% or better, the Variance is displayed in green.
  2. If less than 100%, the variance background is red with a yellow bar drawn on top showing the percent variance.  The lower the variance %, the more red is displayed.


To see the details of work for each resource, the tree can be expanded.  In the example below, the Profiler resource has been expanded by clicking on the + sign on the tree:



The columns can be resized by positioning the mouse over the bar between the columns in the heading and drag the column to the desired width. 


The following tabs and commands are available:


File

  1. Resource Selections  Select Selections | Resources to select resources, pools or departments to graph.
  2. Search  Click on Search to perform the job search.
  3. Clear Selections  To clear your current search criteria, click on the Clear Selections button. 
  4. Print Menu Select File | Print Menu to print a DMS Report as setup by Module Report Settings.
  5. Print Grid  Select File | Print Grid to print the current Grid graph. 
  6. Export Grid Contents 

 

View

  1. Job  Sets the job fields to display on the job panel.
  2. Operations Grid Columns  Sets the operation grid columns to be displayed.
  3. Grid Options
  4. Default menu tab


Selections

  1. Resource Selections  Select Selections | Resources to select resources, pools or departments to graph.
  2. Search  Click on Search to perform the job search.
  3. Clear Selections  To clear your current search criteria, click on the Clear Selections button. 
  4. Group by Resources  Select Selections | Group by Resources to display the grid by resource.
  5. Group by Pools  Select Selections | Group by Pools to display the grid by pool.
  6. Group by Departments  Select Selections | Grid by Departments to display the grid by department.


Manufacturing

  1. New Job to add a new job.
  2. Edit Job to edit the first job in the Manufacturing Order job tree.
  3. Calendar/Capacity Changes are changes you want to make to the manufacturing calendar such as holidays, planned overtime, planned shut downs, etc.
  4. Resources  is used to add, edit, delete resource settings.
  5. Schedule Run  Run a global schedule.
  6. Job Updating  is used to manually enter detailed time updates to a job.


A right click on the grid will display the popup menu shown below.



Valid popup commands are:


  1. Expand all tree nodes will expand all the resource tree nodes and display the efficiency and utilization details.
  2. Collapse all tree nodes will collapse all the resource tree nodes and hide the efficiency and utilization details.
  3. Edit Job Edit a job by double clicking on the job order number or the job bar, or highlight the job and select File | Edit Job or click on the edit icon .
  4. Job Updating will display the Job Updating  window.