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Plan#

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Overview#

A Plan is the central entity for the fulfillment of a specific production demand. A Plan represents a matrix of quantities indexed by:

  • A manufacturing unit (Product or Product Group) called Plan Item.
  • A set of time periods called Time Frames.

This matrix will be associated to a Critical Manufacturing MES Plan Item level (Area, Facility, Site or Enterprise) and the Plan is used to hold the definitions and actual quantities that are planned to be produced on a specific manufacturing level and within a given time frame.

The system entities associated with these concepts are the following:

  • Plan - the core object, which defines the matrix of (Time Frames, Manufacturing Unit and Plan Item Level). A Plan can also reference a parent Plan.
  • Plan Item - responsible for specifying the items that will be included in the Plan as well as referencing the Steps where this Plan Item will be counted as actual volumes contributing to the planned production.
  • Plan Step - the Step where the volumes are counted toward the planned volume of a Plan.
  • Plan Time Frame - an aggregating entity for the Plan Time Frame Items, materializing the temporal planning horizon..
  • Plan Time Frame Item - a list of target and actual Values per Plan Item and Plan Time Frame.

The Plan will be used under two different capacities:

  • Effective Plan - The original Plan which maintains the actual quantities for volume calculations.
  • Plan Scenario - Theoretical Plans created at any point in time based on the current Effective Plan, which can released and update the Effective Plan.

Tying Everything Together#

graph TD
    Main2[Parent Plan] === Main[Plan]   
    Main === L1[Plan Time Frame] === L2[Plan Time Frame Item]
    Main === L3[Plan Item] === L2
    Main === L4[Plan Step] --- A1[Step]
    L3 --- A2[Product]
    L3 --- A3[Product Group]
    subgraph Manufacturing Level
    A4[Enterprise] ---- Main
    A5[Facility] ---- Main
    A6[Area] ---- Main
    A7[Site] ---- Main
    end 

class Main,Main2 mermaid_entity
class A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,A6,A7,A8,A9,A10,A11,A12 mermaid_businessdata
class L1,L2,L3,L4,L5,L6 mermaid_entitylinked
class C1,C2,C3,C4,C5,C6 mermaid_context
class N1,N2,N3,N4,N5,N6 mermaid_nonbusinessdata

click Main "../../business-data/plan"
click Main2 "../../business-data/plan"
click A1 "../../business-data/step"
click A2 "../../business-data/product"
click A3 "../../business-data/product-group"
click A4 "../../business-data/enterprise"
click A5 "../../business-data/facility"
click A6 "../../business-data/area"
click A7 "../../business-data/site"

Sequence Of Steps#

The necessary steps for correctly using a Plan are the following:

  1. Create the Plan.

Info

For more information, see the Plan tutorial.

Available Pages#

Dive into the pages below to explore more about Plan:

Main Page#

Generic Operations#

Specific Operations#