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BCT Preactor Interface

Purpose

To provide a bi-directional interface between Exact Macola's Shop Order module and Preactor's finite capacity graphical scheduling system

Macola to Preactor

Reading information from Exact Macola's Shop Floor, Inventory and Purchasing modules and creating a schedule in Preactor:

  • Shop Order Status
     
  • Operation Status
     
  • Previously locked scheduled dates and times
     
  • Operation Description
     
  • Operation start and due dates
     
  • Order Pegging
     
  • Scheduled department and work center
     
  • Planned labor, setup and machines hours
     
  • Queue days
     
  • FCS Start date and time
     
  • FCS End date and time
     
  • Scheduling of outside processing
     
  • Calculate earliest start date based on material availability
     
  • Uses the quantity remaining on the operation for the schedule
     
  • Process hours can act as a buffer between operations
  • Can create resources, resource groups and secondary constraints:
         Depts/ Depts & Work Centers / Machines
         Depts & Work Centers / Machines
         Depts & Work Centers
     
  • Optional calculation of material availability for controlling the earliest start date of an operation:
         Peg current inventory against shop orders
         Peg open purchase orders against shop orders
         Calculate remaining material requirement from lead times
         Mark each operation with an earliest start date based on material
              availability

Preactor To Macola

Update information in Exact Macola's shop order module:

  • Optionally update Shop order header start and due date
     
  • Operation start and due dates
     
  • FCS Start date and time
  • FCS End date and time
     
  • Locked operation status with scheduled start and due dates
     
  • Dispatch priority

Supported Versions

Exact Macola Progression version 7.x (SQL) and Macola ES


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