Freezing a Job at a Workcenter during Rescheduling:

To allow for an accurate, up-to-date schedule, the user can now call up any Job and update when complete.  This new feature, called 'freezing a Job at a Workcenter' enables the user to track exactly when a workcenter has completed a job and then is able to reschedule Noah.

To freeze the job at a workcenter select a workcenter in the sequenced workcenter list and click on the Freeze button. The calendar form will appear, with the workcenters current end date selected. The user may select another date and the change will immediately be written to file; it is not necessary to save the form afterwards. The selected workcenter name now appears in the textbox under the freeze button.

Rescheduling Noah containing jobs with a frozen workcenters locks in the hour assignments in the resource calendar for workcenters previous to and including the frozen one. Then, the remaining workcenters are rescheduled according to priority order, capacity available, etc.  The user can also unfreeze the job by clicking on the freeze button which is now titled "unfreeze" when the job has been unscheduled.

In summary, with the new Priority List, Advanced Workcenter Tracking, and ability to Unschedule and\or Reschedule any Jobs with a click of the mouse, Noah WS will exceed your expectations for a planning and scheduling system that is powerful, accurate, and easy-to-use.

Noah WS now combines the quick planning capabilities with the ability to track actual Jobs, define priority lists, and reschedule as necessary to adjust to actual day-to-day interruptions to planned schedules.