When you created the Method/Job, how did the Operation get added? Did you do New Operation and then selected the operation? Or did you use the Engineering area to drag the Capability on?
Just creating the job, adding the operation manually. going to resources and manually selecting a capability. We are a repair shop so no BOO/BOM methods.
Do you know how to use the Engineering tab? I believe if you use the Capabilities list and drop your Capability in the tree under Operations, you should be all set.
Yes that makes sense. We have never used the engineering tab, that is a nice tool.
I am not sure this will work for us though, unless we drug the āoperatorā capability after it has selected the machine. We are trying to use the system to select the machine rather than our engineers. So once it has been scheduled, they would have to go back in, see what machine it is scheduled for, and then drag the operator capability for that machine.
Thanks for all your help!
Yeah, you are really trying to push the functionality of Capabilities with what you want. Iām going to continue thinking on this one. Iāll let you know if I come up with anything.
OK so after doing some more testing, I think I have what is going on.
The operation detail is automatically adding the resource group. It is showing that is the primary operation detail and showing we can not delete.
In our operation set up, we have the resource group the operation, but not any capabilities. Once I removed this as the primary production operation detail, both the machine and operator come become scheduling requirements.
So my next question would be: For operations- what should the primary operation detail be if not the resource group?
Well I think I am on the right track, just a little wrong. I do not think it has to do with the primary being the resource group, but rather that the capabilities were not added into the operation as scheduling requirements. Adding those should solve our problem! Thanks again John.
If you are adding multiple scheduling resources to an operation, you want the machine to be the primary. So OpDtlSeq 10.
Think I might be pushing it here but when adding the additional capabilities, does the system think through which machine it selected before determining which operator to select?
The example I have is a capability for machines where there are 3 machines to choose from based on availability. The additional capabilities we have added are based on machine, so if there are 3 machines in one capability, there are 3 additional capabilities with āoperatorsā to run those machines.
What I would like the schedule to do is look at which machine was selected for the machine capability and choose the āoperatorā who can run that specific machine, not 3 operators who can run the 3 machines that are listed under the capability.
Yes, the system will pick the machine first and then it will select the other resources based off of the other scheduling resources.