Scheduling

Steelhead's Capacity Planning features allow you to Schedule work ahead of time. This helps in providing accurate lead times and avoid bottlenecks.

You can use the scheduling features to rearrange work on Workboards across your plant instantly. Scheduling allows you to communicate the highest priority work to everyone instantly

Creating a New Schedule

• From the home page, click on the "Scheduling" tile to go to the scheduling page
• In the "Schedule" dialog box, type in a name for the new schedule
• Filter work by Scheduling Tag, Station, or Deadline
• In the search bar, search for Customers, Labels, Part Numbers, Processes, Process Nodes, or deadlines to further filter on the "Work To Be Prioritized" tile

• Drag and drop work from the "Work To Be Prioritized" tile to the "Priority List" tile
• Adjust the "Priority List" tile as needed
• To set this schedule as the current schedule for the plant, click the "Set Current" button

Adjusting Schedules

• From the home page, click on the "Scheduling" tile to go to the scheduling page
• Choose the current schedule that is available that you would like to adjust
• Filter the "work to be prioritized" tile on the left to see all active work
  • You can view and organize available work with the following options:
    • Work Order Labels
• Drag and drop work to the "Priority List" tile on the right
  • If the schedule you selected is already the current schedule, click "Save Changes" to set the schedule
  • If the schedule you selected is not the current schedule, click "Set Current" to set this new schedule as the current schedule for the work floor
• The priority will be reflected on all workboards

See a video demonstration of scheduling in Steelhead below: