Priority Manager

Gain increased flexibility in setting and managing your Work Order priorities.

Overview

Many organizations have business specific guidelines for setting order priorities at the shop floor level, while their business system is not as flexible as they need it to be when it comes to time to make priority adjustments. Although VISUAL has many options when it comes to order scheduling, planners often find that they need a way to fine tune priorities based on order characteristics or changing information flowing through their shop. The Priority Manager module provides users with increased flexibility and control in managing their changing work order priorities.

The Priority Manager gives the planner the ability to globally set order priority of both firmed and released orders. And with the ability to set priorities on each work order, the planner can ensure that individual shop resources are working on the most important orders in the correct priority sequence for their work center, moving all non-prioritized orders down in priority. The planning may also want to optimize their set-ups by grouping certain orders together sequentially. Using the Priority Manager Window, the planner can quickly and easily establish the priority of individual orders or groups of orders, based on their security access within the VISUAL application. Priority buckets can be established, allowing the planner to have, in a sense, A, B, and C priority categories below the highest priority orders.

The Priority Manager provides a clear, user friendly Query Editor interface to view the orders that are to be prioritized. Within the selected query view, the planner can easily perform data filtering, sorting, grouping, exporting, and printing operations as needed.

The planner may want to group orders with similar or like characteristics together that define a group of work orders, using selected attributes from the Visual database schema. This could include grouping orders with the same color, size, or material type, and therefore help to minimize set-up changeovers.

The planner can also view and analyze the best priority for each given work order based on individual or concurrent resource utilization. Once priorities have been reset, the Priority Manager will automatically update the VISUAL Resource, Concurrent Resource, Work Order Priority, Min\Max Capacity Usage, and Operation Run tables so that the data integrity throughout VISUAL is maintained and visible from the standard VISUAL modules.

Features

Ease of Use - The Look and feel is based on Microsoft 2007, making it easy to use, and easy to train.
Tailored Views - Users can quickly and easily query and analyze the specific orders, or groups of orders that need to be prioritized. Each user can also have multiple views open at the same time in order to have all information available to make priority decisions.
Security - Each Priority View has its own set of security and options, and menus and views are based on user specific security access.
VISUAL Integration - Priorities set will be automatically reflected in the VISUAL system, including updates to the following tables: Resources, Concurrent Resources, Work Order Priorities, Min\Max Capacity Usage.