Parts Functionality¶

There are two parts related enhancements to the scheduling functionality within the Dynamic Scheduling Engine: global parts and refill to capacity.

See the Scheduling Concepts - Parts guide and the Scheduling Schema guide for full details of this functionality.

Global Parts¶

It is now possible to define parts that are only held within a global part stock which is accessible by all resources. The part quantities required by activities are specified in the usual way, but the stock is not linked to any specific resource or depot. Instead, whenever a resource visits an activity requiring one or more global parts, the stock is taken from the global part stock. The global part stock is then validated to ensure that the stock levels have not been exceeded.

One simple application of this is to limit the number of activities in a certain grouping that can be done each day.

Refill to Capacity¶

It is possible to define activities that increase the parts held by a resource when the activity is carried out (i.e. the resource picks up parts as a result of carrying out the activity). However, previously it was only possible to define an exact number of parts that the resource would pick up. It is now possible to specify that the resource can pick up parts up to a maximum value. This can be used in conjunction with parts capacity restrictions to ensure that the capacity limits related to the resource are not broken.