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PlanView

BlackBox implements the exclusive way of representing the data of the production programming in two contemporary modes: Grid and Gantt mode.

It is possible to execute Grid and Gantt mode in separate computers.

It also supports three ways to connect to data:

By database connection

By TCP-IP socket connection

By DCOM connection.

With DCOM connection PlanView provides real time features.

PlanView can also operate as server for IPC Server or IPC Loader and run services on the net.

PlanView is very fast, easy and powerful.

Some possibilities offered by the program are taken back in this document. Listing all the capacities of this application is difficult.

The exclusive two ways mode:

Grid mode

All jobs. Columns=mold machines Item selected

Gantt mode

calculations

PlanView includes a service for the elaboration of the plan of the orders and the calculation of the foreseen theoretical times of production.

The plan of the orders is continuously brought up to date by the data coming from IPC Server and the job orders in execution are calculated on the basis of the times of production noticed by the supervision system.

PlanView automatically manages the calculation of the necessary time for:

Color change from a work to the next one

Change mold and equipment preparation

Change mold version

Setup machine

Equipment disassembly

Time of production

The algorithm considers:

Calendar working days, holiday and turns of work

Time strips for the availability of operators for the mold change

Other particular functionalities.

PlanView also manages the calculation of the necessary raw materials.

PlanView can work as stand-alone application or as service to make the results available to other application.

Normally in a business net there are various Plan View installed and set up for various functionalities.

PLAN GRID

Plan Grid exists in two versions. The first version is totally DCOM based and it depends on IPC Server. It is an exe program (ipcproclient.exe). This version represents only the real plan of the orders.

The second version is integrated in Planview.exe program file. This version can work separately from IPC Server and provides “what if” engine.

The picture below show the main form of Plan Grid.

The left panel shows the compatibility machines for the selected order.

The top panel shows the orders distributed into the different mold machines. Each column represents a real or virtual machine. Single item in the grid represents a job order. There are a lot of glyphs to show the status order. Items with flash bitmap are now running in mold machine.

The bottom panel shows details for the selected item.

Selected item

Most important features available on grid are:

Drag and drop order from one position to another

Legacy mold/cycle/part machine compatibility

Control panel. The order can stop, run, set ready …

Remote control of machine device. It is possible to run or close jobs in the remote machine.

Automatic or manual imports of customer orders

User can append, edit and delete orders

Extra information forms

Task affinity to combine various orders in one

Tea processor to create job from customer orders

Real-time events.

Plan grid show in particular mode:

Job order status

Warnings about blocked molds, blocked parts and blocked job cycles.

Problems of compatibility

Missing data

Work in progress

Show the used master color. See below

Item colour=master colour material

Include more order into single process. In the picture below for example you can see two different parts (lid) produced in one cycle machine. There is a “Task affinity” tool included in Plan Grid that can combine automatically parts/products.

more orders in a single process

PLAN VIEW

PlanView represents the plan of the production planned through the Gantt chart.

See the picture below.

Top toolbar includes calc and navigator buttons.

Left panel show detailed data for selected item.

Right panel show Gantt data:

Bottom axis show date time position

Left axis show mold machine

Single Gantt bar is job order (red=selected, different colors=different status)

The bars blue show pauses and periods of do not work (rest turn, holiday, pauses)

The red box between an order and another represent a mold change

The black cross between an order and another represent a color change

The yellow circles between an order and another represent a mold version change

DateTime

This picture is a zoomed area of Gantt chart.

You can see at left the current job and at right the next.

The red square shows a mold change. The cross shows a color change.

The Red Cross between the two jobs shows a shifting of the beginning of the work.

Click on red square you can see details of mold change.

In particular the form show calculated time for:

Prepare mold

Prepare mold version

Setup machine

Change color time, disassembly equipment

The Gantt can show the data into different formats. For example in the picture below you can see the Plan by Customer (left axis show customer and jobs are grouped by customer)

In this example you can see total amount of time production grouped by raw material

(Left axis=plan days production, bottom axis= raw material)

There are much more forms that are available with one button click…

calendar

BlackBox provides:

Definition of industry work sheet

Definition of holiday, work days

Definition of available period based on resources

Definition of gaps

Definition of user gaps.

Click on gaps you can see a detailed data

SEARCH

There are a lot of tools for searching data.

Results can show by graphical format, grids, tables and so on.

In first picture you can see an easy method to find data. The second picture show a powerful query based on QBB.

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Search result can see directly into Gantt (white bars in the picture below)

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Search results

Also search results can see into dataset format:

Also search results can see in Plan Grid….

Some information’s are displayed with other paintbrush.

TASK Compiler

Plan view enterprise edition includes task compiler.

Task compiler provides:

Calculation of the plan of optimum programming

Exclusive algorithm "Go Back To End"

Simulation of the productive plan

Scheduling

Task compiler considers the specific characteristics of the management in the plastic industries.

It was developed like a language compiler with preprocessor, compiler and optimizer.

TASK Affinity

PlanView include Task Affinity (our invention)

In many cases the production of articles can be done inside the same mold. The mold can be used to produce various types of articles separately or in a same cycle machine.

Task affinity is able to find and combine the articles ordered from customers in single productive processes. A single process can lodge several job orders in practice, according to the mold and articles characteristics.

Task affinity is an expert system to find all the combinations possible and assemble the jobs according to the rules set up.

This is a most powerful tool!

Features:

Handles mold templates

Handles multi-zones mold mode

Handles all product combinations

Assemble orders into single job

WHAT IF

Plan View is able to work with simulated plan.

It’s possible to:

Manually move the job orders in the plan

Define different data for target production

Define different data for time cycle machine

Define different data of underline database

The Task compiler work with simulated plan too.

The plan calculated by the task compiler can apply or can manually defined.

Only certain users can apply the modifications to the server database.

The simulation reflects also in the plan of the needs raw materials.

The simulation is possible thanks to the management at three Plan View specification levels.

RAW Materials

Plan View included “Plan time resources”.

Features:

Handles raw materials, colors, inserts included into parts

Exact on line calculation based on data real time

Result showed in charts, reports, tables

Powered with complex function algorithm

Calculation available on simulate plan

Consider or not consider stock

Manages all gaps

Programmable period and calculation function step

In the picture below you can see at left the raw materials, at right the needs for the next 20 days.

It can manage stock and supply orders.

Reports

There are many reports generated by PlanView:

Sheet of work associated to the job order

Technical data of the manufacturing to be done

Plan work for the turn heads

Softly of work for the warehousemen

Other work plans

Plan View furthermore offer the possibility of creating custom-made reports.

For further information of the reports see the suitable section in "Analysis" module.

Tea Processor

Tea processor creates the job orders on the basis of the orders of the customers and to the store stock value.

The Task affinity and the Task Compiler can subsequently manage the orders.

Customer order can import from other sources.

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