Training: Managing Production Priority

The production schedule is dynamic. This training module demonstrates how to adjust the priority of production orders to respond to changing customer needs or shop floor capacity.

Understanding Schedule Priority

In Velosity, priority is driven by the Sequence Number. However, Planners often need to "bump" a specific job or reorder the sequence within a day. - Visual Sequencing: The Schedule view allows you to see how jobs stack up across your resources. - Impact: Changing the priority of one order may shift the estimated start and finish dates of all subsequent jobs in the queue.

Interactive Tutorial: Changing Order Priority

The following walkthrough demonstrates how a Planner can use the schedule interface to manually adjust the priority sequence of active production orders.

Key Takeaways

• Real-Time Updates: Priority changes are immediately reflected in the Production Queues, so workers on the floor always see the most current "Next Up" task.
• Resource Constraints: When adjusting priority, keep an eye on Resource Group capacity to avoid bottlenecking a specific machine or station.
• Automated Scheduling: For large-scale changes, consider updating the Phases or master start dates to let Velosity's scheduling engine recalculate the entire flow.