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Capacity Grid

 

 

The Capacity Grid enables you to get a snapshot of the load by resource, pool, or department, either by day, week, month, or quarter.  Each cell within the grid gives the percentage load for the selected time period.  The cell load is color coded as follows:

1.If greater than 100% (because of infinite loads or schedule board moves to overload a resource), the cell is displayed with yellow text on a red background.

2.If 100%, the cell is displayed with white text on a red background.

3.If 90% to 99%, the cell is displayed with white text on an orange background.

4.If 80% to 89%, the cell is displayed with white text on a brown background.

5.If 79% load or less, the cell is displayed with black text on the regular grid background color.

 

The example window below shows the resource load by week starting on the week of August 23, 2021:

 

 

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.Runs With Jobs  A Runs With Job Group can be set up.  Select the job to be a Runs With job and select File | Runs With Jobs.  The Runs With Jobs Window appears.

5.Print Menu  Select File | Print Menu to print a DMS Report as set up by Module Report Settings.

6.Print Grid  Select File | Print Grid to print the current grid graph. 

7.Export Grid Contents 

 

View

1.Grid Columns  Select View | Grid Columns to display the grid column options.  You can select the following options:

 

2.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.Time Scale  The Time Scale for the capacity grid can be one of the following:

1.Shifts

2.Days

3.Weeks

4.Months

5.Quarters

5.Graph by Resources  Select Selections | Graph by Resources to display the capacity grid by resource.

6.Graph by Pools  Select Selections | Graph by Pools to display the capacity grid by pool.

7.Graph by Departments  Select Selections | Graph by Departments to display the capacity 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:

 

 

Select Dispatch Display to show the Dispatch Display for the selected Capacity Grid cell.