Maintenance Module

system · October 10, 2014, 5:41pm

If you set up the PM jobs on a schedule (like every 6 months) the jobs are automatically created in the request queue waiting for you to approve and firm schedule. Once scheduled, time is blocked out in the schedule. Not too bad.

Greg

system · October 10, 2014, 5:47am

Hi all,

I am wondering how other people are scheduling times that machines are down for maintenance or other tasks which you need to make visible to schedulers.

I have RIGS that I need to schedule build times and testing but cannot think of a simple way to do it other than creating a job for 'Testing' for example and then creating an operation against the resource and blocking off some time. That works ok if for one machine, but then for the other 22 RIGS do I create another 22 operations and then when you schedule a new op it will move all the other operations to match the sequence of the new op.

Driving me mad to say the least!

Does the Maintenance module help with this problem?

Thanks

Andy

system · October 10, 2014, 11:01am

You know thatâ€™s the unfortunate nature of that beast I fear. We are using it and in a similar manner, but if you want the granularity of taking a specific piece of equipment offline (even when itâ€™s a duplicate of another), you really do have to peg down to the resource level, and then without compromising other units in production, youâ€™re forced to maintain a one to one relationship with operations and equipment. The only pain relief is that itâ€™s just a one-time setup, and then repeated only as you add new equipment so itâ€™s not like itâ€™s completely unmanageable. But I went thru the same frustration when I came to that realization. Just my 2 cents..

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Hi all,

I am wondering how other people are scheduling times that machines are down for maintenance or other tasks which you need to make visible to schedulers.

I have RIGS that I need to schedule build times and testing but cannot think of a simple way to do it other than creating a job for 'Testing' for example and then creating an operation against the resource and blocking off some time. That works ok if for one machine, but then for the other 22 RIGS do I create another 22 operations and then when you schedule a new op it will move all the other operations to match the sequence of the new op.

Driving me mad to say the least!

Does the Maintenance module help with this problem?

Thanks

Andy

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system · October 10, 2014, 1:38pm

Not sure if this fits your situation, but we're on version 9.05.702, and we use the calendar exceptions feature in resource group maintenance to "block out" time for schedule preventative maintenance. The scheduling engine won't schedule load during those times. Or we'll just toggle the whole day to non-working on the calendar if it's going to be a day or more.

On Friday, October 10, 2014 10:01 AM, "Rob Bucek rbucek@... [vantage]" <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

You know thatâ€™s the unfortunate nature of that beast I fear. We are using it and in a similar manner, but if you want the granularity of taking a specific piece of equipment offline (even when itâ€™s a duplicate of another), you really do have to peg down to the resource level, and then without compromising other units in production, youâ€™re forced to maintain a one to one relationship with operations and equipment. The only pain relief is that itâ€™s just a one-time setup, and then repeated only as you add new equipment so itâ€™s not like itâ€™s completely unmanageable. But I went thru the same frustration when I came to that realization. Just my 2 cents..

Rob Bucek
Production Control Manager
PH: (715) 284-5376 ext 311
Mobile: (715)896-3119
FAX: (715)284-4084
[cid:1.234354861@...]<http://www.dsmfg.com/>
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Subject: [Vantage] Maintenance Module

Hi all,

I am wondering how other people are scheduling times that machines are down for maintenance or other tasks which you need to make visible to schedulers.

I have RIGS that I need to schedule build times and testing but cannot think of a simple way to do it other than creating a job for 'Testing' for example and then creating an operation against the resource and blocking off some time. That works ok if for one machine, but then for the other 22 RIGS do I create another 22 operations and then when you schedule a new op it will move all the other operations to match the sequence of the new op.

Driving me mad to say the least!

Does the Maintenance module help with this problem?

Thanks

Andy

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system · October 10, 2014, 3:12pm

Yea, it's definitely not a friendly module, especialy with multi-plant. You can however set up a scheduled maintenance (PM) job as a template with an operation using one of the machines. If you then define that template job as the PM job for let's say 10 other similar machines, the PM jobs that get created for each of the 10 machines will automatically adjust to the correct machine resource.

Greg

system · October 10, 2014, 4:27pm

Thanks
Seems like such a basic need to be able to visually block time for a resource.
Will just have to keep at it with the jobs I think. Just seems so fiddly.
Andy

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