The Noah system supports navigation by selecting buttons on screen, selecting menu commands, and selecting tabs on bottom of the screen. When using the tabs on bottom of screen, the system simply 'goes to' the area and no processing is performed. The user is simply presented with whatever data or options that exist on that screen. When selecting the on screen buttons, or when the top menu Reports is selected, the system will execute processing as necessary to generate information.
Includes setting defaults for Days, Holidays, Work-Centers, and Exceptions. It is required to fill in defaults before jobs are built and scheduled. The initialize tab also includes an upgrade button for bringing data from another version of Noah into blank version. In addition, on the main Initialize Menu\Screen, the user can enter their own name that best describes what they are going to manage (Job, Project, Product, Car, etc.). The name must be entered in the singular; standard plurals will be derived from it as needed). This name will show up on all menus, titles and message boxes.
Once the defaults have been defined - the Build Tab is the single screen that drives the Noah program. The easy access buttons include: Build job, Sequence job, Schedule job, View schedule, Delay a job, Unschedule a job and Shipping a job. In addition, functions for assigning a priority sequence, Rescheduling a job and Increasing Capacity are available.
The Schedule presents all scheduled Jobs in the first column with dates (and associated days of the week) running in a row across the top. Colored bars in the manner of a Gantt chart show the scheduling period and shipping date for each Job. The [Detail] button will expand the chart to show details for entire schedule - showing what Jobs are being worked on and how many manhours for that day. This provides a single screen schedule for entire operation. Other buttons include: [Find] for finding a particular Job, applying user formats for next Jobs scheduled [Format], and sorting schedule per user choice [Sort].
The Resource Calendar shows all workcenters (System Id's and names) in the first two column with dates (and associated days of the week) running in a row across the top. The number of man-hours assigned each workcenter on each day is indicated throughout the calendar. By double clicking any cell, the user can view - for each team, how may man hours are available.
Reports are selected to run from the top menu and include Defaults, Routing (single Job or batch), WIP, Workcenter, ERD, Throughput, Load, Exceptions, Backlog, and Shipping.
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