Employees may have a number of Tasks Assigned to them, that they cannot begin work on because some other work has yet to be completed.

As an example, when making a table the sequence of Tasks may be

• Cut
• Assemble 
• Paint.

Painting cannot be carried out until assemble is underway. 

Assemble cannot be carried out until cut is underway.

Cut is a preceding task to assemble, and assemble is a preceding task to paint. 

Assembly is a succeeding task to cut, and paint is a succeeding task to assemble.

• Various ways to hide succeeding Tasks, and
• To set up following Tasks for Scheduling Auto Move.

To set up a Sequence,


1.  From the Main Management Menu go to Product > Edit. 


You should see a page similar to 

  
Select a Product.

You should see a page similar to

       

2.  Click on the highlighted Sequence button.

  



 
3. And select the preceding Process from the drop down box – in this case we will select Make Top.

 

4. And click on Add and that’s it you have created a Sequence, from Make Top to Assembly.

   


 
5. And click on Add and that’s it you have created a Sequence, from Make Top to Assembly.

 

Note that you can have more than one Preceding Process. 

If you make a mistake just click on delete to delete that sequence.

Note that you cannot set up a Circular Sequence, or a complete loop.  An example of a Circular sequence would be in the above example if the Sequence Cut à Assemble à Paint is added to by making Paint be a Preceding Process of Cut – i.e. the sequence loops around in a circle. 

 

6.  To alter what Employees see in the Task Start Stop and Work Center pages in the Factory version, from the Main Management Menu go to Tools > Settings and select the General tab (highlighted below). 


         

Under Show Sequenced Tasks (see highlighted above) are there are three options

• Always show all Tasks - all Tasks will be visible.  This is the default setting

• Show Tasks where Task has started - all Tasks that have a preceding Process will be invisible until at least one Task in the Order has started

• Show Tasks once Predecessor has started - Tasks that have a preceding Process will be invisible until the preceding one has started.

 


See also
Task Highlighting
Job Priority
Setting Up Auto Move