Does JobOper.StartDate include setup time? The field description says:
Scheduled production start date. Not directly maintainable, updated via the scheduling process.
That leads me to think the date is the start of the operation’s production not the start of the operation’s setup. Can you help clarify this confusion?
Thank you!
Nate
The scheduler is supposed to take into account all setup, production, move, queue time involved at each operation, and back-calculate the start date/time.
I can honestly say that it looks like it does, but I’ve don’t recall ever validating it 100%. Our setup times vary so much that we just put one hour in there for setup.
In the past, if you had 1 hour of setup and 8 hours of production and were limited to an 8 hour window… it would show 8 hours of “activity” scheduled for today and 1 hour for tomorrow first thing… So yes, I believe it is calculating the total time (with setup) if that utilizes the same resource. However, after production has started, if it’s recalculated (or schedule re-run), i believe it’s only accounting for remaining production time.
Again, just what I’ve seen over the years.
Good Point! - Yes - I agree with this too!