Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Scheduler Users Guide - Manual (Page 86)

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typical information that is included in most applications. These include two activity-based
costing reports, daily and weekly resource utilization, scheduled and unscheduled orders,
material levels, order details, dispatch lists, and labor pool allocation. These reports were
developed using Crystal Reports
® software and can be viewed within FactoryTalk
Scheduler using the Crystal Reports runtime software provided with FactoryTalk
Scheduler. There are also comparable reports available for the configuration console.
Schedule Analyzer
The Schedule Analyzer provides the ability to examine the performance of a schedule at
the order and operation level. You can open the Schedule Analyzer window by selecting
the Performance > Schedule Analyzer menu option. The upper part of the window
displays the order information and the lower part displays the operation information.
When you open the Schedule Analyzer window, there will be two entries in the order
section, Late Orders and On-time Orders. If you click on the plus symbol (+) in front of
each entry, the status of each order will be displayed. The order information includes the
order name, due date, scheduled date (or completed date), and difference. The difference
column represents the difference between the scheduled or completion date and the due
date. Thus, the late orders will have a negative difference and the on-time orders will have
a positive difference.
The initial display sequence of the orders is based on the order name. You change this
sequence by clicking on a column header. This will cause the order sequence with the
categories late or on time to be displayed based on the entries in that column. For
example, if you click on the due date column header, the order will be based on the
earliest due date first. Clicking a second time on the due date column header will reverse
the sequence. If you open the window, expand out the two initial entries, click on the
difference column header, then highlight the order (Neck Post 2), your window should
appear as follows.