IFS Cloud 25R1 SU12, on-prem, Manufacturing. No Constraint-Based Scheduling.
We have an existing Work Center 1 (a press). We are adding Work Center 2 (a kitting station) that will physically sit inside Work Center 1's operating area. Both take machine and labor clocking. They are separate work centers for costing and capacity reporting, but because they share the same floor space they cannot run shop orders at the same time. Initially Work Center 2 will run on the opposite shift. Later they may be physically separated.
Standard infinite and finite scheduling treat each work center as its own capacity pool, so nothing stops a planner or the scheduler from placing an operation on each at the same time. Today the only control is the planner watching for it.
What we are testing: separate work time calendars per work center covering only their shift, with Finite capacity on both, so the scheduler cannot overlap them. Fallback is a Quick Report that flags overlapping open operations on the two work centers.
Questions:
- Is there a standard IFS Cloud configuration (without CBS) that models a shared constraint between two work centers?
- Has anyone used the calendar approach for this, and does it hold up when planners manually reschedule operations?
- Any pitfalls with switching a long-running work center from the default calendar and Infinite to a shift calendar and Finite?
- Any better patterns from other manufacturers who have handled shared-cell or shared-floor-space situations?
Thanks in advance!
