APS Maintenance Process

Form ID: (AM512000)

The purpose of this process is to rebuild and refresh work center schedules. You should run this process in the following cases:

During the first implementation of the APS functionality after you have defined your work centers and their capacities.
When you have changed the calendars working hours, added shifts, added break times, changed calendar exception days for work centers. Currently it does not remove break times from the work center but it will add new ones.
When you have changed the schedule block size on the Production Preferences (AM102000) form.
Periodically to clean up and remove old schedules.

The process will fill the empty schedule days for each work centers for the next 180 days and adjust the schedule time blocks. This process can be scheduled to run automatically using automation schedules (for details, see Automated Processing: General Information).

Form Toolbar

The form toolbar includes the buttons described below.

Button	Description
Process	Performs the maintenance operations selected in the Selection area. When Generate Work Center Schedule is selected, the system generates the schedules used by Optimized APS.

Selection Area

Element	Description
Update Work Center Schedule from Calendar	A check box that you select to update the work center schedule blocks for any calendar changes you have made. This chech box appears only if the Advanced Planning and Scheduling (Classic) feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
Generate Work Center Schedule	A check box that you select to generate the work center schedules used by Optimized APS. The system generates working and nonworking periods from the shifts and work calendars assigned to each work center, including breaks, efficiencies, crew sizes, and calendar exceptions. Same-day and overnight shifts are supported. If shift periods overlap, the system consolidates the source periods into non-overlapping periods with minute-level precision. This check box is displayed only when the Advanced Planning and Scheduling (Optimized) feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
Cleanup History	A check box that indicates (if selected) that the system will clear historical data from the form.

Element

Description

Update Work Center Schedule from Calendar

A check box that you select to update the work center schedule blocks for any calendar changes you have made.

This chech box appears only if the Advanced Planning and Scheduling (Classic) feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.

Generate Work Center Schedule

A check box that you select to generate the work center schedules used by Optimized APS. The system generates working and nonworking periods from the shifts and work calendars assigned to each work center, including breaks, efficiencies, crew sizes, and calendar exceptions. Same-day and overnight shifts are supported. If shift periods overlap, the system consolidates the source periods into non-overlapping periods with minute-level precision.

This check box is displayed only when the Advanced Planning and Scheduling (Optimized) feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.

Cleanup History

A check box that indicates (if selected) that the system will clear historical data from the form.

Process History Tab

As each step of the process is run it is recorded.

Table 1. Work Center Schedule Section. This part of the process updates the schedule for shifts and shift calendar changes.
Element	Description
Last Run Date	The date when the work center schedule was updated for the last time.
Last Run By	The user who ran the update of the work center schedule.

Table 2. Block Size Change Section. This updates the schedule blocks for each work center if the size of the blocks was changed in the Production Preferences (AM102000) form.
Element	Description
Last Run Date	The date when the schedule blocks for the work center was last updated.
Last Run By	The user who updated the schedule block for the work center.
Last Block Size	The previous schedule block size.
Current Block Size	The new block size.

Table 3. History Cleanup Section. In this section, you can find information about clearing the old schedules.
Element	Description
Last Run Date	The date when the history was cleaned up for the last time.
Last Run By	The user who ran the history cleanup.

Table 4. Work Calendar Section. This updates all work centers for the following:

Changes of working hours

Changes to exception dates

Changes to break days/times
Element	Description
Last Run Date	The date when the work calendar parameters were updated for the last time.
Last Run By	The user who ran the update of the work calendar parameters.