Prioritizing Stations
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Prioritizing Parts
Prioritizing Parts by Station communicates to your operators the order they should process jobs. When you prioritize jobs, numbered icons will appear in Workboards to communicate the priorities to operators and sort the prioritized jobs to the top of the Work Cards. However, Steelhead Scheduling overrides Prioritization. This means that if a job is scheduled to be completed first but a different job has the top "Priority", the scheduled job will appear first in the Work Card.
To begin Prioritizing Parts, select the Global Priority List or the Station Priority List that you would like to Prioritize Parts in.
The Station Prioritization page is split into Work To Be Prioritized on the left and Priority List on the right, with different sorting/filtering options to choose from along the top.
You can click and drag Parts from the Work To Be Prioritized list on the left, over to the Priority List on the right. Click and drag parts up or down to reprioritize.
Click the Station drop-down to select a different Station. Labels may help you prioritize and order jobs, but the labels themselves do not affect prioritization at all.
The Priority List for each individual Station is fully independent from the others, and also independent from the Global Priority List.
Click the "X" next to the Station Name to clear that Station (this will bring you back to the Prioritization main page).
Further sort the list by using the options across the top. See the Prioritization Overview page for more information on these options.
- Priority Version
- Workflow Control
- Deadline
- Price
Work To Be Prioritized
The Work To Be Prioritized list shows all the Parts (or all the Parts within the Station) that haven't been prioritized.
To help you prioritize this list, you can:
Filter the list by any of the columns such as Part Number, Work Order, Sales Order, etc.
Use the diagonal arrow icon to send all the listed Parts to the Priority List.
Search for orders, Customers, Part Numbers, etc.
- When you use the search bar, you can click CONDENSE RESULTS to condense the list and move Parts in bulk to the Priority List.
Priority List
In this section you can assign and edit the level of importance of each job.
The Priority List displays:
- Table that lists the Rank, Part Number, Work Order, Part Group, Part Count, Sales Order, Treatment, Node, Customer, Deadline, and Price.
- ALL or WORK ORDER view to help you manually sort the orders into top priority.
- Dollar Sign icon to automatically order the Priority List by price.
- Calendar icon to automatically order the Priority List by deadline.
- Download icon to download a CSV of the data.
Click CLEAR to clear everything from the Priority List. Click SAVE CHANGES if you want to save the Prioritization the way it's currently displayed.
Once you save, you'll see the Priority number bubbles appear alongside Parts in the Workboard.
- The "G" tells you it's a Global Priority
- The "S" tells you it's a Station Priority
- The bubbles will remain until the job passes through the Station.
Note: Prioritizing routes to a Station will serve to route that Part to the Station
Factors Controlling Which Jobs Are Displayed:
All Parts that can be treated at the selected Station will be displayed in this table. Treatments that have not been assigned to both a Work Order and a Station cannot be Prioritized.
- For the Treatment in question, if the Part has been routed to a different Station it will not appear on the Unprioritized Tasks list.
- If a Part has undergone all Treatments that a Station provides, it will no longer appear.
In this image, you can see that each row is for only one Treatment.
In some cases this means the Part is routed to this Station more than once, for a different Treatment each time.
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