This course is designed to introduce you to the concepts and terminology used in IFS/Constraint Based Scheduling (CBS) and to give you hands-on experience with the many powerful features of this component.
The estimated time to complete this course is 16.5 hours.
The estimated time to complete the Basic course is 4 hours.
The estimated time to complete the Intermediate course is 13.5 hours. The prerequisites are listed in each chapter.
The estimated time to complete the Advanced course is 3.5 hours. The prerequisites are listed in each chapter.
This course was designed primarily for planners and personnel who enter customer orders.
This chapter provides an overview of the basic data that you will need to set up in IFS Applications before using CBS.
CBS is advanced functionality that is not installed at all customer sites. Before beginning the lessons in this chapter, you should have a basic understanding of manufacturing concepts. Also, you should have completed the IFS Make to Order and Make to Stock courses.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 45 minutes.
This chapter was designed primarily for planners.
This chapter provides a high-level description of how IFS/Constraint Based Scheduling works. It also introduces you to important terms and concepts used in CBS and to the convenient drag-and-drop features of the CBS user interface.
CBS is advanced functionality that is not installed at all customer sites. Before beginning the lessons in this chapter, you should have a basic understanding of manufacturing concepts. Also, you should have completed the IFS Make to Order and Make to Stock courses.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 2 hours.
This chapter was designed primarily for planners and personnel who enter customer orders.
This chapter provides an overview of the scheduling methods used by CBS and explains how CBS interacts with IFS/Shop Order. It also explains how you can use the Sequencing Wizard to sequence the schedule for a work center by part characteristic.
CBS is advanced functionality that is not installed at all customer sites. Before beginning the lessons in this chapter, you should have a basic understanding of manufacturing concepts. Also, you should have completed the IFS Make to Order and Make to Stock courses.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 2 hours, 45 minutes.
This chapter was designed primarily for planners.
This chapter provides an overview of the rescheduling options available in CBS and demonstrates how these options affect the sequencing of the schedule. It also shows how you can use the Focus Window to get an overall picture of the production plan for each site.
CBS is advanced functionality that is not installed at all customer sites. Before beginning the lessons in this chapter, you should have a basic understanding of manufacturing concepts. Also, you should have completed the IFS Make to Order and Make to Stock courses.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 1 hour, 30 minutes.
This chapter was designed primarily for planners.
This chapter show you how to define and schedule a manual resource break and how you can use information about resource breaks to plan preventative maintenance. It also shows how you can use the Capability Check feature to calculate order delivery estimates based on your organization's material and capacity constraints.
CBS is advanced functionality that is not installed at all customer sites. Before beginning the lessons in this chapter, you should have a basic understanding of manufacturing and maintenance concepts, particularly resource breaks. You should have completed the IFS Make to Order and Make to Stock courses. Also, you should know how to enter a sales quotation and customer order.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 1 hour, 45 minutes.
This chapter was designed primarily for planners and personnel who enter customer orders.
This chapter describes the various approaches you can take to improving the schedule. It also explains how you can use the Simulation Client and the Advanced Planning Board to analyze the effects of schedule adjustments.
CBS is advanced functionality that is not installed at all customer sites. Before beginning the lessons in this chapter, you should have a basic understanding of manufacturing concepts. Also, you should have completed the IFS Make to Order and Make to Stock courses.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 5 hours.
This chapter was designed primarily for planners.
This chapter provides an overview of how CBS interacts with the Configure to Order features of IFS Applications. It explains how shop orders for configured parts are scheduled and how configuration characteristics are made available to CBS.
CBS is advanced functionality that is not installed at all customer sites. Before beginning the lessons in this chapter, you should have a basic understanding of manufacturing concepts. Also, you should have completed the IFS Configure to Order, Make to Order, and Make to Stock courses.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 45 minutes.
This chapter was designed primarily for planners and personnel who enter customer orders.
This chapter provides an overview of how CBS interacts with the Dynamic Order Planning (DOP) features of IFS Applications. It explains how a DOP structure is represented in CBS and how CBS uses this structure to establish a production schedule based on available capacity.
CBS is advanced functionality that is not installed at all customer sites. Before beginning the lessons in this chapter, you should have a basic understanding of manufacturing concepts. Also, you should have completed the IFS Dynamic Order Planning, Make to Order, and Make to Stock courses.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 45 minutes.
This chapter was designed primarily for planners and personnel who enter customer orders.
This chapter explains how you can use CBS to track the progress of shop orders and to report shop order completions.
CBS is advanced functionality that is not installed at all customer sites. Before beginning the lessons in this chapter, you should have a basic understanding of manufacturing concepts. Also, you should have completed the IFS Make to Order and Make to Stock courses.
The estimated time to complete this chapter is 1 hour, 15 minutes.
This chapter was designed primarily for planners.