Digital Magnetic Schedule Board

Hi All,

I have a bit of experience with FMP, and I've come across a scheduling
board for custom manufactuing done in FMP in the past, but I don't know
where to start to make this idea come to fruition.

Here it is:

It is a small print shop, and I want to be able to pull data from my
planning software into FMP.

Essentially, there would be a card that would have a bit of info about
that particular job (pulled from the planning software, and contains
job number (unique serial), customer, quantity, layout, press, paper,
has paper been ordered, have plates been output), and I would be able
to move this card around on a calendar and then be able to prioritize
within a particular day (there will be several jobs on the same press
on the same day)

Then, for each machine (cost center), I want to setup a schedule board
that would have the day of the week at the top (Monday, Tuesday, Wed,
etc), then, have a priority field so that priority 1 would be at the
top of the list and the operator would know to run this first, priority
2 would run second, etc. The card would move around as is needed by the
scheduler.

At this point, I can visualize this in my head, but I don't know how to
get started. Honestly, it's the calendar part that trips me up the
most, and whether this would be a report, or in the browse mode (me
thinks browse mode).

Any ideas?

Just for the Calendar question : you should look at the free version of
CCCalendar from www.clevelandconsulting.com, which does the the complicated
work for you and adapt its examples to your needs.
Remi-Noel

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Hi All,

I have a bit of experience with FMP, and I've come across a scheduling
board for custom manufactuing done in FMP in the past, but I don't know
where to start to make this idea come to fruition.

Here it is:

It is a small print shop, and I want to be able to pull data from my
planning software into FMP.

Essentially, there would be a card that would have a bit of info about
that particular job (pulled from the planning software, and contains
job number (unique serial), customer, quantity, layout, press, paper,
has paper been ordered, have plates been output), and I would be able
to move this card around on a calendar and then be able to prioritize
within a particular day (there will be several jobs on the same press
on the same day)

Then, for each machine (cost center), I want to setup a schedule board
that would have the day of the week at the top (Monday, Tuesday, Wed,
etc), then, have a priority field so that priority 1 would be at the
top of the list and the operator would know to run this first, priority
2 would run second, etc. The card would move around as is needed by the
scheduler.

At this point, I can visualize this in my head, but I don't know how to
get started. Honestly, it's the calendar part that trips me up the
most, and whether this would be a report, or in the browse mode (me
thinks browse mode).

Any ideas?