Introduction

Now that we have a clear understanding of the Rough and Fine Cast Planning, it is time to open the Resource Manager (RM).

As already written in the introduction, RM is the tool for the actual production planner. It is important to be able to plan elements from different projects at the same time. That is something that we can do from the RM Planning tab.

Before we even start then please activate the Cast module in RM as shown in the picture below.

Planning tab

The RM planning tab has the left side (1) (filters and project selection) and the right side (2) which will remind you of the Element Ids tab in PM.

If you select your project on the top and then leave all the filters unmarked,then press Refresh and all the elements that are included in that project will show on the right window.

Configuring the planning tab is the same as in the Element Ids tab in PM. Feel free to select the grid configuration for Cast Planning.

Now you can group the elements by the diffrent fields of data.  You can drag the planned production dates on the top of the bar and see all the different dates.

You can now filter elements also by status, floor, element type and length/height/width and multi-cast them on the corresponding divisions on the correct planned production dates.

Hollow core under the Hollow core and TT's division, slabs and solid walls under Wall Panels + slabs division and so on.

Focus mainly on the elements that you are producing in your factory.

Note: The cast planner in both RM and PM is the same, so it is proposed to not have both Cast planning in PM and RM open at the same time (nothing bad happens if you do). That is only because we do not want the same person to get confused by having the same module open twice on their computer.

In this example, we have both PM and RM open at the same time, so try and auto-cast a few more elements on your tables from RM, then move to PM and press refresh to see that the elements are automatically updated in both cast views!

Note: We are pressing refresh only because we have both software open. If we have closed the PM and open it from scratch, all the changes that we did in RM will automatically be applied both in the Model and the Cast Planner.

Remember also to view the status colours in the model changing at the same time.

Workload Tab

When the above is finished, open the Workload tab.

This is where we can see what has been Rough and Fine planned for a specific period in our Factories/Divisions.

On the top, there are a lot of filtering options that will be used to adjust our graph.

As an example, select a few dates (maybe from the first of January in the year that you are reading this training), then select the value "Chart" and “View By” the value that drives your production. In our case, I will use Mass as our KPI.

The workload is a weekly view that separates the Rough (planned dates on elements) from the Fine planned (elements set on a table/bed) elements.

IMPORTANT Note: This is a test/trial database and we rarely set all the rough planned elements to the cast planner. The view above should not include any rough planning for past dates, only for the future. In reality, everything that has been rough planned needs to also be fine-planned before the planned production/delivery date arrives.

Production Tab

Moving on to the Production tab. This tab shows everything that has been produced in your factory.

Produced means that you have manually set the Cast status to "Produced" on the Cast Planner.

The view adjustments are the same as on the workload tab. One different thing is that you can choose if you want to have a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly graph!

IMPORTANT Note: This is a test database and we do not usually set all the fine-planned elements to Status "Produced", as we are not producing them in real life. This graph has less data, compared to a production graph for a real factory.

If you want you can set some of the elements that you have planned for production to produce and then refresh the graph and see the difference. Remember to adjust the dates on the graph so your planned dates are included. This is not mandatory at this stage of the training.

Continue to the next part of the training here.