Schedule and Unit Load
Two dashboards focused on capacity — what's scheduled and how loaded each unit is.
Production Schedule
A timeline view of every Batch across every Production Unit for the coming days. Drawn as a Gantt: each Batch is a bar, each Unit is a row.
Use it to:
- See where the floor will be next week. Is Stitching Line A double-booked? Is Cutting Table 2 idle?
- Plan new work. Where's there capacity to slot a new Production Order?
- Spot ripple effects. If one operation slips, which downstream operations get pushed?
The schedule reads from the same data the simulator uses. It reflects current expected dates from the Batch Operation Steps, not theoretical capacity.
Production Unit Load
A per-Unit utilization view. For each Production Unit (internal and external), the dashboard shows planned minutes, available minutes, and utilization %.
Use it to:
- Find the bottleneck. Which Unit is consistently above 100%? That's where you're losing days.
- Find the underutilized. Which Unit is below 50%? That's an opportunity — either re-allocate work or scale back capacity.
- Validate the simulator. If the simulator says you're fine but the load dashboard shows a Unit at 130%, the simulator's assumptions need a look (often Cost Per Minute or Default Minutes Per Day are stale).
Image: The Production Schedule dashboard showing a Gantt chart of Batches across Units for the next two weeks, with one Unit visibly over-allocated.
When to look at these together
Most useful as a pair, especially when planning. The Schedule tells you when work is hitting; the Load tells you whether the unit can absorb it. Either alone is misleading.