APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) Asprova APS
APS system that creates production schedules
at high speed for multiple items and multiple processes
Operations
How to specify the earliest start time (EST) for an operation
Q：How to specify the earliest start time (EST) for an operation
A：
Steps:
1.Right-click on a use instruction bar on the resource Gantt chart. The use instruction bar popup menu will be displayed.
2.Select [Operation] - [Edit Operation...] from the use instruction bar popup menu. Properties of the use instruction for the operation you selected will be displayed in the properties window.
3.Select the General tab from the properties window.
4.Specify a time for the property "User specified EST".
5.The specified EST will be considered as a time constraint during scheduling.
6.You can specify the user specified EST for an operation only after Asprova generated the operation from scheduling.
How to specify the latest end time (LET) for an operation
Q：How to specify the latest end time (LET) for an operation
A：
Steps:
1.Right-click on a use instruction bar on the resource Gantt chart. The use instruction bar popup menu will be displayed.
2.Select [Operation] - [Edit Operation...] from the use instruction bar popup menu. Properties of the use instruction for the operation you selected will be displayed in the properties window.
3.Select the General tab from the properties window.
4.Specify a time for the property "User specified LET".
5.The specified LET will be considered as a time constraint during scheduling. You can specify the user specified LET for an operation only after Asprova generated the operation from scheduling.
How to specify the user specified quantity for an operation
Q：How to specify the user specified quantity for an operation
A：
Steps:
1.Right-click on a use instruction bar on the resource Gantt chart. The use instruction bar popup menu will be displayed.
2.Select [Operation] - [Edit Operation...] from the use instruction bar popup menu. Properties of the use instruction for the operation you selected will be displayed in the properties window.
3.Select the General tab from the properties window.
4.Specify a quantity for the property "User specified quantity".
5.The specified production quantity will be considered as a quantity constraint during scheduling.
6.You can specify the user specified quantity for an operation only after Asprova generated the operation from scheduling.
How to specify the user specified production time for an operation
Q：How to specify the user specified production time for an operation
A：
Steps:
1.Right-click on a use instruction bar on the resource Gantt chart. The use instruction bar popup menu will be displayed.
2.Select [Operation] - [Edit Operation...] from the use instruction bar popup menu. Properties of the use instruction for the operation you selected will be displayed in the properties window.
3.Select the General tab from the properties window.
4.Specify a time for the property "User specified production time".
5.The specified production time will be considered as a time constraint during scheduling.
6.You can specify the user specified production time for an operation only after Asprova generated the operation from scheduling.
How to specify production factors to change production times of operations
Q：How to specify production factors to change production times of operations
A：
You can specify production factors from the following:
"Production factor" in the item table
"Production factor" in the resource table
"Production factor" in the master use instruction
"Production factor" in the order table
"Production factor" in the scheduling parameter settings
"Production factor" in the project settings
A production factor of a given operation is calculated as the product of all the production factors.
How to split an operation by specifying a split number
Q：How to split an operation by specifying a split number
A：
Steps:
1.Right-click on the operation you want to split and select [Operation] - [Edit Operation...] from the popup menu.
2.Specify a split number for the property "Split number" in the Split tab of the properties window.
3.If you reschedule, the operation will be split and assigned according to the specified split number.
How to split an operation by specifying a split ratio
Q： How to split an operation by specifying a split ratio
A：
Steps:
1.Right-click on the operation you want to split and select [Operation] - [Edit Operation...] from the popup menu.
2.Specify a split ratio for the property "Split number" in the Split tab of the properties window.
3.If you reschedule, the operation will be split and assigned according to the specified split ratio.
4.When you specify a split ratio, use semicolons to separate numbers, e.g. 1;1.
How to carry out split operations in parallel
Q： How to carry out split operations in parallel
A：
Steps:
1.Right-click on the operation you want to split and assign in parallel and select [Operation] - [Edit Operation...] from the popup menu.
2.Specify a value for the property "Split number" or "Split ratio" in the Split tab of the properties window.
3.Specify the number of resources to which you want to assign the split operations for the property "Split parallel number" in the Split tab of the properties window.
4.If you reschedule, the operation will be split and assigned according to the split number and split parallel number you specified.
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