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With the Planning Assistant, you can do the following:
•Plan jobs you created from scratch in Cockpit in detail for the entire production process in a clear user interface or
•reschedule jobs that have already been planned.
The Planning Assistant offers the following functions for this:
•Delegate operations: You can withdraw operations from a job and delegate them to other jobs to be processed there.
•Stock production: You can create special operations that produce print products for stocking or withdraw products from stock.
•Rescheduling production machines: prepress, press and postpress machines configured in the system can be rescheduled.
•Editing production parameters: you can edit makeready and production times and also production quantities and allowances in the Planning Assistant.
•Editing operations: Operations can be added to an order, deleted, divided into several obs or combined into one job.
•Distributing production amounts: Production amounts can be distributed among several machines.
•Distributing separations: You can distribute the editing of separations among several operations.
•Allocation of placeholder colors: If you plan to print by separations using placeholder colors, the correct color names from the documents can be allocated to the placeholder names.
Prerequisite: You cannot invoke the Planning Assistant unless you have a valid sheet layout.
Add Layout(s)
You can add layouts to a job by clicking "Create" or "Import" in the "Imposition" step of the open job. Clicking "Create" will open the interactive Prinect Signa Station where you can create the layout. You can import an existing layout to the job with "Import". See also The button bar in the "Imposition" step.
Invoke the Planning Assistant
You can invoke the Planning Assistant as follows:
•In an open job in the "Imposition", "Plates", "Print", "Sheet finishing" and "Product" steps with the "Planning" button.
•In Scheduler in the Operations list with the context menu command "Planning".
Navigation through the Planning Assistant:
Click "Next" or "Back" to navigate forwards and backwards through the planning steps. Alternatively, you can click the planning step you want in the toolbar at the top.
You can also use the following key shortcuts to navigate among the planning steps:
Shortcut | Function |
|---|---|
Command key + space bar | Switch from the current to the next planning step (forward). |
Command key + Shift key + space bar | Switch from the current to the previous planning step (backward). |
Note: You will find more details about key shortcuts in: Keyboard Shortcuts.
Exiting the Planning Assistant
Click "Finish" to conclude planning.
Definition of terms
Planning steps are the planned individual process steps that are carried out with the Planning Assistant.
For jobs without versioning, the delivery quantity is equivalent to the print run quantity. For versioned jobs, the delivery quantity is the quantity produced for each version. In this case, the total delivery quantity or job quantity is the sum total of the delivery quantities of all versions.
In the Planning Assistant, quantities (amounts) are calculated in each planning step. This refers to the quantities of products produced by the respective work step. Depending on the current planning step, a quantity can be the number of press sheets ("Sheet-fed Printing" step) or the number of folding sheets ("Sheet finishing" step).
Notes on operation
•Case 1: Editing a planned job:
In this case, planning was done either in the MIS or in the Cockpit job settings.
When you call up the Planning Assistant in the open job, it will be populated with the planning data for the job. You can modify the existing planning data by, for example, entering a different delivery quantity or selecting a different machine. All of the planning will be matched to the changes you made.
•Case 2: Planning a new job created in Prinect Cockpit:
In this case, you can use the Planning Assistant to plan the amounts, allowances, operations and the process network.
Based on the layout defaults, the Planning Assistant automatically suggests suitable machines to you, including their setup and production times and the operations need for production. The amounts and allowances are calculated automatically and suggested based on the delivery quantity you entered and on the suggested machines. In this way, you can generate and use consistent planning data.
The Planning Assistant guides you through the planning of the production run in the planning steps (the planning steps display above the planning details):
•Delivery
•Binding, gluing folding cartons
•Platemaking
Planning data are calculated "backwards", ranging from the finished product up to platemaking. You can edit a completed plan during job processing right up to just before printing. However, it is not possible to reschedule operations of a process currently running (for example folding). You can edit planning specifically for each planning step or operation. All the parameters that are related to a planning change can be matched automatically.
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