Station Schedules

Viewing and Setting up a Station Calendar

To find a Station's applied Calendar, click the "Stations" tile from the Homepage and select the station desired. The Calendar hyperlink will be positioned near the bottom of the card for this station:

Some other ways to access the Station Calendar:

• From your Steelhead homepage, click the Capacity Planning tile, then click the Calendar tab in the top right corner
• From your Steelhead homepage, click the Schedules tile, then within a Schedule Board click the Station tab at the top of the screen

Station Schedule Intro

To see the list of schedules for all stations, click into the active Schedule. This page displays a list of Stations that are on Schedule Boards (arranged by tabs), and below that is a list of all stations (arranged by # of Tasks).

Clicking on one of the Schedule Boards (top section) or Stations (bottom section) will open up an interface that contains a wealth of settings for managing the way station workflow is planned, with two main sections being the Schedule Settings and the Unscheduled Tasks Dropdown.

Schedule Board Page:

Station Schedule Page:

Schedule Settings

View Modes

The top three tabs allow you to Switch between Station Calendar view, Schedule view, and Prioritize Tasks view.

• Station Calendars show all of a Station's uptime, logged by default as the whole work week
• Normal Schedules are similar, and show "blank canvas" that can have tasks scheduled onto it freely
• Prioritize Tasks view will display a table that shows all scheduled tasks in their categories as either "PRIORITY" or "INTENTIONAL"

Utility Buttons

There are a few Utility buttons across the top of the page:

1. Reschedule using Current Priority reschedules all auto-scheduled tasks automatically using Current Priority and Date settings
   • Clicking this icon will reschedule tasks based on your priority list
   • Even if there is time available earlier in day, the parts will be scheduled in priority order

2. Clear Schedule removes all tasks from the schedule.

3. Schedule Station Tasks adds a Station Event such as equipment change-overs, lunch, or break.

4. Scheduling After: Enter a date and time here that will be used as the start time for auto-scheduling and rescheduling.

• If you ignore this menu, the current date and time will be used
• The red line on a schedule board will show this selection. Nothing before the red line is considered for this

View Type Selector

These tabs will show you different information about Tasks on the Schedule, including:

• Work Order
• Customer
• Treatment
• Part Number
• Part Group
• Recipe
• Batch
• All (shows part number / work order)

Unscheduled Tasks

Click the red arrow to expand the Unscheduled Tasks list. This shows all work that is expected to come through this Station so that it can be added to the Schedule.

At the top of the Unschedule Tasks are several filters.

Deadline Before:

• Enter a deadline to view all tasks before a set date

Dense vs. Distinct Processing:
Full Batch/Work Orders Separately

• This switch will determine whether the cycle time for a task is governed by the number of Batches assigned or by Work Order.

Workflow Control:

• Easily filter Parts between Tags and/or filter by Routed parts
• This can be helpful if you want to only schedule parts that are routed
• You can also adjust these tags in the Prioritization module
  

Unscheduled Tasks Table

The Unscheduled Tasks table contains sorting columns for many metrics:

• Selected (Checkbox)
• Part Number
• Part Group (can change part group)
• Customer
• SO
• Work Order
• Deadline
• Routed
• Recipe Name
• Received Batches
• Treatment
• Part Count
• Batches
• Execution Date (Calendar Selector/Date Entry)
• Expected Time (Numeric Entry Fields)
• Total Expected Time (Numeric Entry Fields)

Schedule Buttons

On the right side of the table are some buttons to individually alter Tasks listed on the table (you may have to scroll to the right to see all columns):

1. Intentional Schedule button adds the task to the calendar using the entered start time and duration(s)
2. Auto Schedule Wand adds the task to the calendar at the soonest available slot and puts it at the last (most recent) priority
3. Exclamation Mark moves the task to top priority
4. Routing Button allows selection of a specific station for each of that work order's treatments
5. Gear Selects that row for editing

Station Deadlines:

If you think you'd like to use Work Station deadlines to help ensure that parts are moving through each station on time, Station Scheduling would be something to consider trying.

Priority Mode

In Priority mode (Prioritize Tasks tab), tasks that are scheduled can be viewed by whether they are classified as Priority or Intentional.

• Priority shows the auto-scheduled tasks (scheduled using the red Schedule Wand). These will automatically be sorted around the intentional tasks.
• Intentional shows manually-scheduled tasks with a set date and time that can be edited.

Priority Table

• ID
• Customer
• Work Order
• Recipe Name
• Part Number
• Part Group
• Received Batches
• Treatment
• Part Count
• Batches
• Rack Type
• Duration
• Expected Start Time
• Deadline
• Actions (Exclamation mark, Delete, Move)

Intentional Table

• Part Number
• Part Group
• SO
• Work Order
• Deadline
• Routed
• Recipe Name
• Received Batches
• Treatment
• Part Count
• Batches
• Expected Duration
• Total Expected Time (min)
• Execution Date
• Actions (Edit Pencil)

Schedule Board Page

Within the Schedule Board page, you have many of the same settings as the Station schedules.

In addition, you can click the Edit Station Cards button which will bring up a dialog box to move or delete any Stations from the schedule.

Schedule Wand

To add tasks to stations on a schedule, press the Magic Wand button to mass-schedule many unscheduled Tasks at once. These can then be dragged from side to side in their assigned station. To reassign them to another station, use the Routing feature.