All About Capacity Planning

All About Capacity Planning


Documentation and videos to teach you all about the Capacity Planner.

Videos cover 
    1. Capacity Summary -  Covers how to navigate the capacity planner
    2. Auto Scheduling Multiple Jobs 
    3. Auto Scheduling Individual Jobs 
     4. Manually Scheduling Individual Job Operations 
     5. Additional Features - Moving, filtering, splitting, planning and un-planning  operations
     6. Floor Staff Use - Assigning users to departments, navigating boards, starting and stopping operations 
    7. Setting Up The Capacity Planner - Setting up your departments and machines for scheduling
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Capacity Planning Videos 





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