When you open the app, you can select the type of view to display:
- Resource Gantt chart: This Gantt chart shows
the distribution of operations among
execution resources.
It gives a good grasp of the workload of the resources in the plan.
- Work order Gantt chart: This Gantt chart displays the work orders in
the plan. For each work order, it shows the sequence of operations over time.
This is the go-to view to monitor the execution of work orders.
- Hierarchical work order Gantt chart: This Gantt chart displays the work
orders in the plan. Each work order appears as a single summary bar on the
graph, that you can expand to view the operations in the work order. This is the
Gantt chart of choice to switch quickly between a global and a detailed view of
the work orders.
- Resource workload chart: This chart shows how the
workload of resources varies over time, and highlights the periods when there is
either a risk, or a situation, of overload or overcapacity.
- Secondary resource workload chart: Same as
above, but for secondary resources.
- Work center workload chart: Same as above, but for work centers. You
can expand the work center rows in this chart to see also the workload for each
resource in a work center.
- Key performance indicators: This view displays
metrics to monitor the past, current, and projected performance of the selected
production plan.
- 3DViewer: This view displays the 3D models of the
operations you click from a Gantt chart in another widget.
In Production plan, select the plan you want to
view.
If you have selected a Gantt chart or a workload chart:
- In Secondary view type, you can select a second view to display below
the main view in the widget. Typically, this is useful for analysis purposes. If you
select two charts, they share the same time scale, so scrolling left or right in one
chart scrolls the other chart accordingly. Similarly, selecting an operation in one
of the charts highlights it in the other. If you do not
need to display two views at a time, select None in
Secondary view type.
- In Open / Restore view from, you can select the first date to see when
you open the views, and also when you refresh them with F5 or
Ctrl + F5. The default value is the Scheduling
start date.
For all types of views except
3DViewer, you can select a Refresh
rate. With the default value Manual, you update
the data only when you select Refresh
from the widget menu . Depending on the production plan and on how you work, using one of the
automatic refresh options may be more convenient.
You can change these settings at any time. From the widget Preferences
, you can select a different type of view, or a different production plan,
for example.
You can pin the widget to a dashboard
tab, so
you do not need to select the type of view and other options again.
You can combine several widgets, and therefore views, into the same dashboard
tab, or
use several tabs, as best suits you. Typically, if you need to work on several
production plans, a good option is to use a separate widget for each. In any case, the
flexibility of dashboard and dashboard
tab
management lets you make the most of the Production Plan Cockpit widget.