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A production line is the path a unit is built on; a station is one work step on it
(cutting, welding, glazing, packing). Parts, option choices and rules send each piece of work to a line and a station,
and scheduling needs the line’s shifts to find room. Set these up before parts and rules.
Before you start
- Warehouses exist (Set up branches and warehouses); a station can
pick a warehouse and location. - Draw your shop on paper: each line, its stations in order, which stations limit output (bottlenecks), which cut
with an optimizer, and your shift hours.
Steps
- Stations. Administration and Setup → OJ Setup → PRODUCTION → Production
Stations → New. Only Description is required. Set Capacity (work per shift) and tick
Bottleneck on the stations that limit the schedule. Tick Optimized on saw stations whose cut lists go
through the bar optimizer, and fill Save Directory where machine files are written. Flag one station
Service Parts for service orders. Save. Repeat. - Lines. PRODUCTION → Production Line → New. Description is required. Set
Cart Size above 0, tick Shift 1/2/3 for the shifts this line works, set Sequence, and
Min Days to Manufacture (needed when Company Preferences use a standard production lead time). For a glass
line tick Is Glass Line. Leave Generate Shipping at 0 unless you ship direct. Save. - Routing. PRODUCTION → Line-Station Routing: pick the line, use Add Station for each
station in the order the work flows, and Move Up / Move Down to fix the order. - Shifts. PRODUCTION → Shift: pick the line and add a window for each ticked shift:
Shift, From, To and Capacity %. Make the window cover today and the coming months. - Stages (optional): PRODUCTION → Production Stages. Only used by the Set Prod Stage rule.
- Station Buffer (optional): only for stations with the Buffer flag on lines with Has Sub-Lines.
- Saws. PRODUCTION → Saws: one row per Optimized station with Blade Thickness,
Grip Allowance and V-Cut Waste in the unit system you cut in. ID and Station are required.
Three things that stop scheduling or cut lists
A line with no ticked shift, or a ticked shift with no Shift window covering the dates, never finds room.
Every station a unit’s parts go to must be on that unit’s line in Line-Station Routing, or scheduling stops with
“Production Line #: […], Production Station #: […], not found”.
An Optimized station with no row on Saws fails when its optimized cut list is built.
A line with no ticked shift, or a ticked shift with no Shift window covering the dates, never finds room.
Every station a unit’s parts go to must be on that unit’s line in Line-Station Routing, or scheduling stops with
“Production Line #: […], Production Station #: […], not found”.
An Optimized station with no row on Saws fails when its optimized cut list is built.
ActiveUnticking Active on a line hides it from this screen
and from every line picker, and it cannot be switched back on here. Ask your administrator to reactivate it.
and from every line picker, and it cannot be switched back on here. Ask your administrator to reactivate it.
Check it worked
- Line-Station Routing draws the Routing Diagram for each line, one card per station, with its saw (or “No saws
assigned”). - The Shift screen shows a window for every shift ticked on the line, covering the coming months.
- On Options, a choice with Process = Internal lists the line in Prod Line and its stations in
Station.
Saw codes, label positions and the operator screens come later, after parts:
Set up saw codes and station views. Field details:
Production Stations setup, Production
Line setup, Line-Station Routing, Shift, Stages and Station Buffer,
Saws setup, Stations & production lines.