Course Description for Schedule Work Order with 360 Scheduling

This course describes how to work with the functionality included in the integration between IFS Applications and 360 Scheduling. The lessons for this course can be found under the Basic Data and Requirements and Schedule Work Order with 360 Scheduling chapters. The course is divided in to 5 lessons, and should be followed in the sequence outlined below.

Course Length

The estimated time to complete this course is 6 hours.

Target Audience

This course was designed primarily for work leaders, maintenance planners, and service order planners.

360 Scheduling Basic Data Definitions

This lesson covers the definition of basic data required for scheduling activities (work orders) in the Scheduling Engine.

Prerequisites

Before taking this lesson, the employee must be set up in IFS Human Resources. The employee must be connected to the company that is to be scheduled, employed within the scheduling period, connected to a valid working hour schedule, set up as a maintenance employee and assigned to a valid maintenance organization and craft. Valid geo-coordinates (using virtual map positions) must be connected to the employee's person address and to the company address of the employee.

Lesson Length

The estimated time to complete this lesson is 1.5 hours.

Target Audience

This lesson is primarily designed for work leaders, maintenance planners, and service order planners.

Defining Broadcasts and Datasets

This lesson covers the definition of scheduling broadcasts and datasets. Datasets are used to transfer data to the Scheduling Engine. Broadcasts are used to tell the Scheduling Engine how and when an allocation plan is to be returned to IFS Applications, and how to manage the interface between the scheduling system and IFS Applications.

Prerequisites

Before taking this lesson, you should have completed the 360 Scheduling Basic Data Definitions lesson.

Lesson Length

The estimated time to complete this lesson is 2.5 hours.

Target Audience

This lesson is primarily designed for work leaders, maintenance planners, and service order planners.

Setting Up Scheduled Tasks for Transferring Data

This lesson covers the definition of scheduled tasks will be used to transfer data through background jobs.

Prerequisites

Before taking this lesson, the valid schedule method must have been set up. This is done as part of the installation of the integration. The installation is not covered in this lesson.

Lesson Length

The estimated time to complete this lesson is 0.5 hours.

Target Audience

This lesson is primarily designed for work leaders, maintenance planners, and service order planners.

Scheduling Work Orders

This lesson covers the definition of a fixed time or fixed resource on work orders and an introduction to how work orders are scheduled in the Scheduling Engine.

Prerequisites

Before taking this lesson, you should have completed the previous lessons in the Schedule WO with 360 Scheduling lesson.

Lesson Length

The estimated time to complete this lesson is 0.5 hours.

Target Audience

This lesson is primarily designed for work leaders, maintenance planners, and service order planners.

Managing Scheduled Plans

This lesson covers the activities involved after scheduling is done, i.e., view scheduled plans, assign work orders to employees and unassign employees from work orders.

Prerequisites

Before taking this lesson, you should have completed the previous lessons in the Schedule WO with 360 Scheduling lesson.

Lesson Length

The estimated time to complete this lesson is 1 hour.

Target Audience

This lesson is primarily designed for work leaders, maintenance planners, and service order planners.