Color modes

The different supported color modes are explained in more detail below

Milestone colors

Shows if the milestones are respected. Operations are given colors according to if they respect delivery and materials date/times.
Colors used:

Yellow

The operation is scheduled to start before the materials are ready.

Red

The operation is scheduled to end after time of delivery.

Black

Both time of delivery and material ready is exceeded.

Green

Both time of delivery and material ready is respected

This color modes works in the same way as the Milestone flags function.

Project color

View orders according to the project they are related to by. Project colors are assigned when a project is created.
The color can be edited in the project list using the color column.
Only with ROB-EX Scheduler Project module

Order color

View the orders by different colors.
The orders are automatically assigned different colors as they are created.
The colors can be further edited in the window Edit order or from the Order list.
The colors can be edited from the Gantt chart by activating the function “Order colors” and then right mouse clicking an operation in the order. In the menu select “Select color”

Route color

View which orders uses the same routes by colors.
The colors can be edited from the Gantt chart by activating the function “Route colors” and then right mouse clicking an operation in the order. In the menu select “Select color”.
The function can be used to give orders using the same route the same color or nuances of the same color in order to identifying the routes in the gantt chart.

Operation color

View operations having the same master operation, e.g. Drilling. The operation color is selected in the window “Edit operation”, which is described in the chapter Edit operations.

Operation status colors

Each operation has a color corresponding to the operation state. The following colors are used:

Brown

Forecast – time for the operations in the order is reserved in the plan.
The production order is planned and will occupy capacity on the resources assigned to the different operations in the route. Use this state for unconfirmed production orders.

Gray

Planned – the order has been planned.

Turquoise

Released – the order has been released but all preconditions for starting the order are not met.
If the precondition flag has been set at the time of releasing the production order, the status will automatically and immediately change to status “Start possible”.
The precondition flag should be set if all conditions for starting the operation have been acknowledged, eg. approval of work instructions and drawings etc.

Blue

Start possible – the order has been released for production and the precondition flag has been ticked off.
This status signals the the production order is ready to be started

Red

Cancelled – the operation has been cancelled.

Green

Started – the operation has been started.
State Started is entered when one or more operations in the route of the production order has been reported started. Once all operations in the route has been reported complete, the production order state will automatically shift to status Completed.

Yellow

Paused – the operation has been put on stand-by.

Black

Completed – the operation has been reported “Completed”.

Status entered when all operations in the route has been reported as complete (or cancelled). Alternatively the status of the production order may be manually set to Completed, which will cause all operations, that is not already cancelled or completed, to be reported complete.
Production orders with status Completed can be deleted from the order list window.
The function is also available in the Tool bar.

Progress colors

View the current progress (partial completions) on the operations.
Colors used:

• White – No progress reported.
• Green – Progress reported. The planned end time is not exceeded.
• Red – Progress reported. The planned end time is exceeded.
  

Progress is shown as a darker color on the operation.
Please refer to chapter The main window – Edit operation for further details.

Operation locked colors

Operations can be locked so they can’t be moved. Locked operations are painted with the color red and operations not locked are painted green.
An operation can be locked from the shortcut menu

Broken constraints

see operations where a broken constraints goes into.
Operations having broken constraints are shown with red color.
A constraint is broken when the previous operation ends later than the current operation starts.

Material shortage colors

Color operations by material availability. Only available with BOM license

Green

All materials are physically in stock. They are considered physically in stock when purchases have status “Received” and possibly pegged intermediate orders have status “Completed”.

Blue

Materials are in stock – purchases have status “Received” but no pegging links could found (even though “use in pegging” field is enabled on the master materials) so status of intermediate orders could not be determined.

Orange

Materials are in stock – purchases have status “Received” but intermediate orders are not completed yet.

Yellow

Purchases have status “Confirmed” so material is not physically in stock yet.

Purple

Missing material can be procured in time (“Procurement lead time” and “Procurement calendar” must be specified on the master material)

Red

Not enough in stock.

White

Operation does not consume a material.

Cyan

Operation is outside of the time horizon covered.

Dark brown

Production exceeds warehouse upper warning limit

Black

Production exceeds warehouse maximum storage

Magenta

Time between pegged production and consumption exceeds shelf-life (Shelf life parameter on master material must be specified in hours).

*Note that progress for operations will affect the resulting color of the operation, as the completed part of the operation is darkened. As an example an otherwise white colored operation will appear half gray and half white if a total of 50% progress has been reported on the operation.

!Notice that this function might load the CPU heavily, when there are many operations with BOM lines in the Gantt chart. Especially when the operations have a long duration and the BOM lines consume linear. The colors are cashed, so it is only the first time an operation is shown or when a material is changed that the material shortage needs to be calculated.

Settings in GanttSetup.properties. that affects this color mode:

Default state on purchases: If the status on a purchase is unspecified the default state will be “Received”. Supported states: Received, Confirmed and UnConfirmed.
purchase.default.status=Received

Default horizon: By default the material shortage colors are only applied on operations after now and 30 days forward.
material.shortage.horizon.in.days.after.now=30

Material sum: If true inventory for consuming transactions are calculated crossing all warehouses (material sum). Default is false.
ignore.Warehouse.On.Consuming.Material.Shortage.Colors=false

Shelf life

Will highlight producing and consuming operations where the shelf life is exceeded on the materials used. Producing operations will get yellow and consuming operations will get red. Note that shelf life is only supported for intermediates produced and linked using a pegging link or sub-order link.
For furhter information about Shelf life refer to macro CheckShelfLife.

Product family

If the order belongs to a campaign then color by the product family of the campaign. If no campaign then color by first product family on the BOM-list. Producing BOM-lines are favored ahead of a consuming lines. In case the operation itself has no BOM-lines, then a producing BOM-line on last operation is searched or as a last resort a consuming line on the first operation

Series colors

show the operations belonging to the same series or groups.
The Series colors are selected in the window “Edit series”, which is opened from the Edit menu or using the Edit button in the window Edit order.
Please refer to chapter Optional modules – Series and groups for further details.
Only available with ROB-EX Series and groups

Archive colors

When an archive is loaded into the Gantt chart, the archived data is mixed with recent un-archived data. With this color mode archived operations are colored while. Un-archived operations are colored by resource.
Only available with ROB-EX Multiuser

Account color

View operations colored by the assigned account.
The account can be set on each operation or on the order for the operation or finally on a project. The painted color will be from the account on the lowest level. I.e. if operation has an account and the orders also has an account, the color will be selected from the account on the operation.
Only with ROB-EX Scheduler Project module

Producing material stock colors

Color producing operations to identify if enough is produced for future demands. Only available with BOM license

Green

when net-requirements are fulfilled in the period daysToColorForWardFromNow.

Orange

if net-inventory in period is below min-warning-level.

Yellow

if net-inventory in period is below min-level.

Purple

if inventory is below zero just before production.

Cyan

if inventory is below min-level just before production.

Gray

if inventory is below min-warning level just before production.

Red

if net-inventory in period is below zero.

Blue

above max level.

White

operation does not produce

Black

operation is outside horizon

Settings in GanttSetup.properties. that affects this color mode:

The horizon to look for producing operations. Default is 30 days. So between now and 30 days ahead it will color producing operations
colorView.ProducingMaterialStock.daysToColorForWardFromNow=30

How many days should it search forward from the producing operation to find consuming transactions.
Specify -1 to ignore this setting. Default is 30 days. If -1 is specified the consuming transactions must be within the daysToColorForWardFromNow horizon.
colorView.ProducingMaterialStock.daysToLookAheadFromProducing=30

If true the warehouse produced to / consumed from is ignored and it looks at material sum crossing all warehouses. Default is false.
colorView.ProducingMaterialStock.isSum=false