Views of Production Plans

A Production Plan Cockpit view is typically the combination of a production plan and a type of chart. It is how you choose to view the data of a specific production plan.

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.