{"id":3918,"date":"2012-04-16T14:55:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/?page_id=787"},"modified":"2020-06-24T17:53:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:53:43","slug":"industry-planning-characteristics-of-your-machines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-characteristics-of-your-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Planning &#8211; Characteristics of your machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Workshop sections and Machines<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In\u00a0<strong>Direct Planning Industry<\/strong>, there are 2 methods for retrieving times and durations relating to your machines :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Times can either originate from the ERP ;<\/li>\n<li>Or they can be calculated by Direct Planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each <strong>machine<\/strong>\u00a0has the following features:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">a <strong>machine<\/strong> belongs to a <strong>workshop section<\/strong>. In the default display of the schedule, the machines are visually grouped by workshop sections.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">a <strong>display order on screen<\/strong>. This way, machines can be vertically ranked in order of importance or in relation with the <strong><a title=\"Industry Planning \u2013 Production process\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-production-process\/ \">production range<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>a default\u00a0<strong>operation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">default <strong>setting and running times<\/strong>. Production rate is stated in a working unit specific to the machine. Examples: pieces\/hour, plates\/hour, linear metres, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_4395\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/direct_planning_industry_machine_record.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4395\" class=\"wp-image-4395 size-large\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/direct_planning_industry_machine_record-610x592.png\" alt=\"Direct Planning Industry \u2013 A machine record\" width=\"610\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/direct_planning_industry_machine_record-610x592.png 610w, https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/direct_planning_industry_machine_record-312x303.png 312w, https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/direct_planning_industry_machine_record-156x151.png 156w, https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/direct_planning_industry_machine_record.png 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Direct Planning Industry \u2013 A machine record<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Watch this <strong>video<\/strong> to learn more (in French):<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g8pIDON-uPM?list=PLE29BC077F1C16669&amp;rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Direct Planning Industry<\/strong> uses this data to <strong>automatically calculate the duration of your jobs<\/strong> upon first planning or machine change. However, you can still manually impose setting and running times. This is often the case when <a title=\"Industry Planning \u2013 Interface with your information system\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-interface-with-your-information-system\/\">jobs are imported from within an information system<\/a> (ERP, CAPM).<\/p>\n<h2>Compatible operations, setting and running times<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the specified <strong>setting and running times<\/strong> seem oversimple to you: for your information, setting and running times can be defined more accurately.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is possible to describe different working modes for each machine, using various <strong>compatible operations<\/strong>. For each machine-operation pair, you can specify setting and running times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can also include <strong><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\/ \">technical items of production<\/a><\/strong> to even more sharpen your setting and running times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Example:<\/strong>\u00a0a setting time, depending upon the number of printed colours, or a running time depending upon the material profile and the printing complexity.<\/p>\n<h2>Opening calendar per machine<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to describe the opening schedule of your machines (which depend upon the timetables of your teams on each machine), you can specify, per machine and per year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>general opening hours, via an annual standard week.<\/li>\n<li>specific opening hours for a particular week.<\/li>\n<li>specific opening hours for a particular day.<\/li>\n<li>specific opening hours for a particular time slot (planned maintenance on a given day, for example).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In <strong>Direct Planning Industry<\/strong>, any scheduled job can go through a period of machine inactivity. The remaining duration is automatically scheduled just after the inactivity period.<\/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>Workshop sections and Machines In\u00a0Direct Planning Industry, there are 2 methods for retrieving times and durations relating to your machines : Times can either originate from the ERP ; Or they can be calculated by Direct Planning. 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