SchedulePro®

New in Version 2.6

Version 2.6 has improved charting and reporting.

• Help system is updated for Windows Vista compatibility
• New Toolbars for Equipment Occupancy Chart and Gantt Charts
• New Report for Equipment Occupancy
• New Report Format for the Schedule Report
• New Report Options for all Reports
• Reports and Charts May be Clipped by Campaign or Time
• A New Interface Allows Resource Selection and Ordering for Charts and Reports with Equipment, Work Areas, or Staff
• The Gantt Chart Allows Automatic Display at a Selected Level of Detail
• Resource and Inventory Plots now have an Adjustable Y-Axis Range

New Toolbars for Equipment Occupancy Chart and Gantt Charts

After a schedule is generated, you may quickly view an equipment chart or Gantt chart.

New Report for Equipment Occupancy

The Equipment Occupancy Report lists the activities and times for each piece of equipment. Select “Reports/Equipment Occupancy Report…” from the menu.

New Report Format for the Schedule Report

The Schedule Report has been reformatted for improved readability.

New Report Options for all Reports

Select “Reports/Report Options…” from the main menu. Each report has its own set of options.

Reports and Charts May be Clipped by Campaign or Time

All time-oriented charts and reports except the equipment occupancy chart may have their contents limited by campaign, batch and/or start and end time. Select “Reports/Clipping Options…” from the main menu. The option may also be found in the “Preferences/Clipping…” option in the Gantt chart menu.

A New Interface Allows Resource Selection and Ordering for Charts and Reports with Equipment, Work Areas, or Staff

Select “Reports/Contents and Ordering…” from the main menu.

The Gantt Chart Allows Automatic Display at a Selected Level of Detail

Use the “Detail” item in the Gantt chart menu to collapse all the tasks to the selected level of detail.

Resource and Inventory Plots now have an Adjustable Y-Axis Range

Select the Y-Axes tab from the chart’s Style dialog.

New in Version 2.5

• Material Supply Systems
• Staff Resources
• New Resource Usage Feature
• New Scheduled Campaign Dialog
• New Scheduled Operation Dialog
• Updated Chart Toolbar Buttons

Material Supply Systems

Track the generation or production of a single component even when it is used in multi-component streams.

New Material & Resource Chart Options

• Plot material usage or production by material, storage unit or material supply system
• Plot the sum of multiple resources with optional multipliers for materials
• Limit the plot to usages in only certain recipes

Example: In a certain plant, water purified by reverse osmosis (water-RO) is used both by itself and as a source of distilled water for injection (WFI). If 1.25L of water-RO yield 1 L of WFI, the total demand for RO-water may be obtained by the demand for water-RO plus the demand for WFI multiplied by 1.25 as shown above.

Individual Staff Resources for Labor

Now SchedulePro can schedule and track individuals without the need for resorting to the staff-as-equipment workaround.

Staff are assigned to operations. A pool of staff may be assigned along with the required number.

Staff utilization may be displayed on the equipment occupancy chart. Simply exclude the equipment to show the staff.

Resource Usage Feature

All resources now have a new "used-by" feature that is may be launched by clicking the  button. The dialogs shows all the uses of the resource optionally narrowed by recipe, section or procedure. Resource assignments may be edited.

New Interface Features

Scheduled Campaign Dialog

The dialog for a scheduled campaign now shows all of the information that the campaign planning dialog shows.

Scheduled Operation Dialog

Scheduled operations now have a two-tabbed dialog that shows scheduling and duration information as well as auxiliary equipment and staff resource assignments.

Updated Time Chart Toolbar Buttons

All charts that display time on the x-axis have 3 new toolbar buttons: a Zoom To button that zooms to predefined time intervals, a Zoom By button that zooms to predefined percentages and a Fit-to-Window mode toggle button that sets or unsets fit-to-window mode.

Equipment Chart Drag/Drop Mode Toggle Buttons

The equipment occupancy chart now has toggle buttons to select the drag-drop mode. The buttons from left to right are by batch, by procedure and by operation. Toggle all the buttons off to disable dragging and dropping.

New in Version 2.2 Updated On-line Help and Manuals Need we say more? Equipment Suites SchedulePro now allows true suite-based scheduling without the need for multiple recipes. The same feature also provides for equipment connectivity constraints. Suites are assigned at the recipe section level. Click here for details. Interbatch Scheduling Advanced recipe scheduling now provides a way to link operations in two different batches. Improved pre-production and post-production Campaign Options Preproduction campaign options now include a fixed-time cleanout and/or user-defined receipe. Postproduction campaign options include a user-defined recipe, fixed or equipment-dependent cleanout time and fixed or equipment-dependent changeover time. More Control Over Scheduling Algorithm Advanced users may be able to improve scheduling in some cases by modifying how ScheduePro schedules batches. More Features Captured in the Recipe Database A number of non-SuperPro features have been included in the recipe database. Users may save recipes with advanced scheduling or suites.