Scheduling Configured Parts—Key Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within the CBS training site. If you work within any other site, you will not be able to access a CBS server. To simplify data entry, select the CBS site as your default site on the Sites per User window. Also, to keep your data separate from that of other users, be sure to name all data using your initials as the prefix.

Basic Data Setup

Overview of Constraint Based Scheduling Data

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create the required data used in the Constraint Based Scheduling (CBS) exercises. This sets up data for your site that needs to be done only once for all CBS exercises.

  1. If you have not done so already, set up your site so that it includes all the CBS required data.

General exercise for Overview of Constraint Based Scheduling Data

Main Exercises

Creating Shop Orders for CTO Parts

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how CBS handles shop orders for configured parts.

Windows:
Shop Order
Simulation Client

Note: Before beginning this exercise, make sure that you have defined your configured part, XX–250–G20C, along with its configuration characteristics and rules.

  1. Make sure that the program is set to create shop orders with a status of Planned.

Note: Parameters for Distribution and Manufacturing window.

  1. Open the Shop Order window. Create a shop order for your configured part, XX–250–G20C.
  2. In the shop order header, right-click, point to Configuration, and then click Create to define the part's configuration characteristics for the selected shop order. Select 6 as the characteristic value.

Note: When prompted, be sure to click Yes to create and schedule the shop order operations.

  1. Reopen or refresh the Simulation Client. Find your shop order, right-click, and then click Show.
  2. Click Show Contents. Verify that the configuration characteristic, GLENG, is attached to this shop order with the correct value.

Note: When the Sequencing Assistant is used to reorder operations for a work center, a combination of the inventory part and configuration characteristics can be specified as the sequence criteria.

Using the Capability Check for CTO Parts

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how the Capability Check feature is used for CTO parts.

Windows:
Customer Order
Simulation Client
DOP Header

  1. Open the Customer Order window. Create a customer order for your customer.
  2. Enter a customer order line for your configured part, XX-250-G20C.
  3. Select the customer order line, right-click, point to Configuration, and then click Create. Enter 8 as the characteristic value.
  4. Select the customer order line, right-click, point to Capability Check, and then click Run Capability Check. The Capability Check window opens.
  5. Make sure to set the Allocate option to Reserve and Allocate. Click OK. CBS calculates a promise date.
  6. Review the interim order structure created for this capability check request.
  7. Reopen or refresh the Simulation Client, and review the promise shop order created for the configured part. Verify that the configuration characteristic, GLENG, is related to the shop order.
  8. Release the customer order.
  9. Once the background processing has completed, review the DOP header and shop orders created for this customer order line.
  10. Reopen or refresh the Simulation Client. Verify that the shop order inherits the characteristics from the promise shop order.