Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Scheduler Users Guide - Manual (Page 90)

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Now let’s turn our attention to the Material Prerequisites. This section lists all the
materials required and their availability. If the material is a manufactured component, it
will also provide the order that produced it. For example, there are two listings for the
material Wheels, a purchased material. A total of 20 wheels are required, 11 coming from
a material delivery on February 13 and nine wheels from a delivery on February 14.
Further examination shows that the SHP Red Finished Frame component produced by the
SHP Red Finished Frame 4 order is not complete until February 20 at 8:27. This is the
constraint that causes the SHP Red 6 order to be started and completed late.
FactoryTalk Scheduler reports
Before viewing selected reports, you should be aware that the data for a report is taken
from the FactoryTalk Scheduler database. Thus, if you made changes to your schedule,
you will want to save that schedule, using the File > Save All or File > Save Report Data
menu options, before viewing reports. There are also several reports that require that
specific data be updated before you save your schedule. This data is not automatically
updated each time you save your file as it does not affect the schedule and is only used for
certain reports.
The Material Levels report references a specific database table that is used only to store
the material history for the span of the current schedule. If you do not update this
information, your material report could be based on potentially inaccurate data.
Although there are no tutorial reports that reference waiting-time, resource utilization, or
pooled-resource utilization data, if a report is included with your application, you need to
update the database before you view the report. There are four options for saving the
database. The first two options, File > Save and File > Save As, do not update the
resource utilization, pooled resource, material, and waiting-time data that are often used in
reports. The File > FCS only saves the current FCS file. The File > Save Report Data
saves only the data mentioned above. The File > Save All option saves both the database
and report data. Unless your database is extremely large and requires a long time to save,
we recommend using the File > Save All option.
After updating the necessary database tables and saving your schedule file, you can view
reports by selecting the Database > Reports menu option, which provides a list of
available reports for the current application. We will briefly describe and show a few of
these reports.