{"id":3917,"date":"2012-04-16T14:54:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/?page_id=785"},"modified":"2020-06-08T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:33:39","slug":"industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Planning &#8211; A visual, user-friendly interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A configurable, visual interface<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For an intuitive, fast planning,&nbsp;<strong>Direct Planning<\/strong>&nbsp;uses many visual items.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1473\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/direct_planning_industrie_visuel_intuitif.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1473\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1473 \" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/direct_planning_industrie_visuel_intuitif-610x358.png\" alt=\"Direct Planning Industry - Visual elements\" width=\"610\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/direct_planning_industrie_visuel_intuitif-610x358.png 610w, https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/direct_planning_industrie_visuel_intuitif-312x183.png 312w, https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/direct_planning_industrie_visuel_intuitif-156x92.png 156w, https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/direct_planning_industrie_visuel_intuitif-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/direct_planning_industrie_visuel_intuitif-810x476.png 810w, https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/direct_planning_industrie_visuel_intuitif.png 1010w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Direct Planning Industry &#8211; Visual elements<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few examples and explanations in a <strong>video<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jzcbs9F17CU?list=PLE29BC077F1C16669&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Job&nbsp;colorization&nbsp;<\/strong>is fully&nbsp;<a title=\"Industry Planning \u2013 Customizable display modes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-customizable-display-modes\/\">customizable<\/a>. It can be performed according to commercial data (customer, manufacturing order, priority, etc.) or technical data (type of printing, of material, working mode of machine, etc.). Moreover, all these data can be&nbsp;<a title=\"Industry Planning \u2013 Configurable for your business\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-configurable-for-your-business\/\">configured for your business<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Blue arrows<\/strong>&nbsp;enable you to display the links between the jobs that make&nbsp;<a title=\"Industry Planning \u2013 Production process\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-production-process\/\">a production range<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Completed jobs<\/strong>&nbsp;are automatically grayed in order to catch&nbsp;<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">less&nbsp;<\/span>attention. A blue, horizontal bar just above the job shows&nbsp;<a title=\"Industry Planning \u2013 Production progress\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-production-progress\/\">its progress<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Visual flags:<\/strong>&nbsp;fully&nbsp;<a title=\"Industry Planning \u2013 Visual flags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-visual-flags\/\">configurable<\/a>,&nbsp;colored&nbsp;rectangles, located just above or inside a job. They draw your attention on specific, trade-related information concerning manufacturing.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">A&nbsp;<strong>padlock<\/strong>&nbsp;shows you that a job is locked, thus it cannot be moved.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alerts<\/strong>&nbsp;on jobs make it possible to notify probable or actual&nbsp;<a title=\"Industry Planning \u2013 Time impositions and alerts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-time-impositions-and-alerts\/\">production delay<\/a>s. An alert can also reveal that a tool or a material required for production won&#8217;t be available in time.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jobs that have not been scheduled yet can be recorded on a&nbsp;<strong>line &#8220;to be scheduled&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A modern, intuitive interface<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The interface of&nbsp;<strong>Direct Planning<\/strong>&nbsp;is particularly intuitive. It features&nbsp;<strong>ribbon<\/strong> menus that are very easy to use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As for the planning, it can be achieved by drag and drop. It is simple to grasp. Training time for Direct Planning is very short.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"mks_button mks_button_medium rounded\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/\" target=\"_self\" style=\"color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #1e73be;\" > Industry Planning Features<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A configurable, visual interface For an intuitive, fast planning,&nbsp;Direct Planning&nbsp;uses many visual items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2516,"parent":3907,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3917","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Industry Planning - A visual, user-friendly interface - Direct Planning<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The configurable visual interface of Direct Planning Industry, the planning software customizable for a production planning.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Industry Planning - A visual, user-friendly interface - Direct Planning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The configurable visual interface of Direct Planning Industry, the planning software customizable for a production planning.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Direct Planning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-06-08T14:33:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/logo-direct-planning.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"256\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"128\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Direct_Planning\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/en\\\/industry-planning\\\/industry-planning-features\\\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/en\\\/industry-planning\\\/industry-planning-features\\\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\\\/\",\"name\":\"Industry Planning - A visual, user-friendly interface - Direct Planning\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/fr\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/en\\\/industry-planning\\\/industry-planning-features\\\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/en\\\/industry-planning\\\/industry-planning-features\\\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-04-16T14:54:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-06-08T14:33:39+00:00\",\"description\":\"The configurable visual interface of Direct Planning Industry, the planning software customizable for a production planning.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/en\\\/industry-planning\\\/industry-planning-features\\\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/en\\\/industry-planning\\\/industry-planning-features\\\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/en\\\/industry-planning\\\/industry-planning-features\\\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/en\\\/industry-planning\\\/industry-planning-features\\\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Accueil\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Direct Planning Industry\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/en\\\/industry-planning\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Industry Planning &#8211; Features\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/en\\\/industry-planning\\\/industry-planning-features\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Industry Planning &#8211; A visual, user-friendly interface\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/fr\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/fr\\\/\",\"name\":\"Directplanning.com\",\"description\":\"Planning software for industry, projects and services\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/fr\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/fr\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/fr\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Direct Planning\",\"alternateName\":\"DP\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/fr\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/fr\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/DirectPlanIcone.bmp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/08\\\/DirectPlanIcone.bmp\",\"width\":320,\"height\":355,\"caption\":\"Direct Planning\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.directplanning.com\\\/fr\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/Direct_Planning\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/showcase\\\/direct-planning\\\/posts\\\/?feedView=all\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/VolumeSoftware\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Industry Planning - A visual, user-friendly interface - Direct Planning","description":"The configurable visual interface of Direct Planning Industry, the planning software customizable for a production planning.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Industry Planning - A visual, user-friendly interface - Direct Planning","og_description":"The configurable visual interface of Direct Planning Industry, the planning software customizable for a production planning.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/","og_site_name":"Direct Planning","article_modified_time":"2020-06-08T14:33:39+00:00","og_image":[{"width":256,"height":128,"url":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/logo-direct-planning.png","type":"image\/png"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@Direct_Planning","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/","url":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/","name":"Industry Planning - A visual, user-friendly interface - Direct Planning","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/fr\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2012-04-16T14:54:42+00:00","dateModified":"2020-06-08T14:33:39+00:00","description":"The configurable visual interface of Direct Planning Industry, the planning software customizable for a production planning.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-a-visual-user-friendly-interface\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Accueil","item":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Direct Planning Industry","item":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Industry Planning &#8211; Features","item":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Industry Planning &#8211; A visual, user-friendly interface"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/fr\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/fr\/","name":"Directplanning.com","description":"Planning software for industry, projects and services","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/fr\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/fr\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/fr\/#organization","name":"Direct Planning","alternateName":"DP","url":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/fr\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/fr\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DirectPlanIcone.bmp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DirectPlanIcone.bmp","width":320,"height":355,"caption":"Direct Planning"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/fr\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/Direct_Planning","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/direct-planning\/posts\/?feedView=all","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/VolumeSoftware"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3917\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}