About Planning Integration

Industrial Engineering: You can map planning items and operations with Industrial Engineering (IEN) activities and simulate it in the Factory Flow Simulation App. IEN provides a capability through business rule to customize the operation mapping with IEN activity. You can also control the particular destination type, such as resource, product zone, or flow for the operation or item.

Table 1. Default Implementation
Planning Type	Attribute and Description Value	Target	Result
Transfer Operation	N/A	Conveyor Resource	Transfer activity on conveyor.
Transfer Operation	N/A	Product Flow	Transfer activity for product flow.
Loading Operation	N/A	Product Zone of Storage or NC Machine	Loading operation on product zone.
Unloading Operation	N/A	Product Zone of Storage or NC Machine	Unloading operation on product zone.
Loading/Unloading Operation	Pack/Unpack	Product Zone of Storage or NC Machine	Pack/unpack activity on product zone of storage or NC machine.
Loading/Unloading Operation	Picking/Placing	Product Zone of Storage	Load/unload activity on product zone of storage. Case to limit creation of load/unload on storage only.
General Operation	N/A	Product Zone of NC Machine	Transform activity on product zone of NC.
General Operation	N/A	Out Zone	Dispatch activity on out zone.
General Operation	N/A	Product Flow	General operation flow on the product flow with product flow details populated.
General Operation	N/A	Conveyor Decision Zone	Transform activity on conveyor decision zone.
General Operation	N/A	Product Zone of Buffer	Buffer activity on product zone of buffer resource.
General Operation	Generic	Product Zone for NC Machine	Generic activity on NC machine.
General Operation	Transfer	Product Flow	General operation must have input/output product and executing resource associated.
N/A	N/A	N/A	Transfer activity for product flow.
General Operation	Transfer	Conveyor Resource	Transfer activity for conveyor is created. General operation must have association with the target conveyor resource.
General Operation	Consumable	NC Machine or Robot Resource	Consumable is created on the resource where it is dropped and is attached to the generic activity. Only NC machine and robot are supported.
General Operation	Cleaning	NC Machine Resource	Periodic action is created on the resource where it is dropped and is attached to the generic activity. Only NC machine is supported.
General Operation	Inspection	NC Machine Resource	Periodic action is created on the resource where it is dropped and is attached to the generic activity assigned to the other machine. Only NC machine is supported. Also select the required SLA resource.
Item	N/A	Product Zone of Buffer	Buffer activity on the product zone of the buffer resource.
Item	N/A	In Zone	Create activity.
Item	N/A	Out Zone	Dispatch activity on out zone.
Item	N/A	Product Flow	Product flow detail on product flow is created.

CATRule Files: Set the attribute for a particular mapping object in the CATRule file. You cannot drag-and-drop operations that are not supported through customization, and a failure message is displayed in this case.; The customization is supported by CATRule file DELSLAPlanningContinuityBL.CATRule. The CATRule logic decides the valid IEN activity depending on the operation type and the target destination. It also decides whether to allow the particular drag-and-drop action depending on the destination and type of operation.; CATRule provides the operation object and parameters about the target. Parameters are detailed in the CATRule file.; You can return the valid activity type for further activity creation if the drag-and-drop action is valid.; You can manage post processors for drag-and-drop items with CATRule DELSLACustomizePlanningContinuityBL.CATRule.

Scope Link: Define scope links for planning integration.

Precedence: Operation precedence and flow between operations are carried forward as precedence between respective mapped activities. Precedences are carried forward between the mapped activities.

Resource Assignments on Operation: The resource assignment is carried forward through resource pool assignment with the restriction of one resource per pool.; Sometimes an operation is associated with an NC machine resource and your required result is to create an activity. In this case, you can only drop the operation on the same NC machine or product zone of the associated NC machine. When you try to drop the resource of this operation type on other NC machines, it results in failure.

Properties of Mapped Activities in the Resource Configuration panel: All activities pointing to an operation or item are marked with on the existing icon of the activity in the Resource Configuration panel.; Name, Time, input, and output of the operation are set on the activity.; The input and output items are highlighted in the tree when you select them in the Resource Configuration panel.; The worker is assigned on the operation as a resource pool to the activity and has a one worker per pool restriction.; If you must link the same operation to multiple resources or product zones, use DELMIA_FFS_AllowMultipleOperationLinkToActivity=1.; In Planning Integration, there is a limit to one worker per pool while mapping the activity to the operation. There cannot be an instance where a mapped activity has an assigned pool with more than one worker.; There is no update mechanism to automatically Sync activities with planning with already integrated IEN data.; The functionalities in the Edit panel of activities are disabled if the activity is mapped to a planning operation.