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Truck Schedule

Orders carry a Truck Number, usually a delivery route or a customer pickup. Eclipse Pro treats each truck on each day as a truck, gives it a due time, and uses that time as the due time of every order on it. The scheduler's late warnings, the schedule optimizer and the Schedule → Trucks page all use it.

How orders are grouped into trucks​

  • Truck. Truck numbers are compared ignoring case and leading or trailing spaces, so Route 5 and ROUTE 5 are the same truck. Spaces inside the name count: Route 5 and Route 5 are different trucks.
  • Day. The Truck date system preference decides which order date places an order on a day: the required date (the default), the ship date, or the ship date falling back to the required date. An order whose date changes moves to that day's truck.
  • One run per day. A truck runs once a day. For a second run, use a different truck number, such as PICKUP AM and PICKUP PM.
  • No truck. Orders with a blank truck number are grouped as No truck and always use the plant default due time.
  • No date. Orders without the chosen date have no due time and are never late.

Trucks are discovered from the orders, so there is no list to maintain.

Due times​

A truck's due time is the first of these that is set:

  1. A time for this date (set on the Trucks page).
  2. The truck's time for that day of the week.
  3. The truck's every day time.
  4. The plant Default due time system preference, or 11:59 PM when that is blank.

The due time means "production must be finished by". A plant can treat it as the load time instead.

Due times are stored in Eclipse Pro only. Nothing is written back to Eclipse Classic.

Late and at risk​

An order is late when its last scheduled block, across all machines, is projected to finish after the truck's due time. It is at risk when it is projected to finish within the Due time warning (60 minutes by default) of the due time.

An unscheduled or on-hold order has no projection. It becomes late once the due time passes. Finished orders are never late.

The whole truck takes the level of its worst order.

A late order stays late until it is finished or is projected at least 5 minutes before the due time. This stops it flickering between late and on time as the schedule recalculates.

The Trucks page​

Schedule → Trucks lists every truck, in these sections:

  • Yesterday: trucks with orders still open.
  • Today: every truck.
  • Tomorrow and Upcoming: every truck. Upcoming rows show each truck's date above its due time.
  • No date: trucks whose open orders have no date.

The tabs at the top show one section at a time. Show older open trucks adds open trucks from before yesterday. The filter box matches truck names and each order's code, customer, material and tooling. A truck that matches because of some of its orders opens to show just those orders.

The tiles above the list count the trucks that are Late, At risk, On time and Not scheduled. Select a tile to show only those trucks, and select it again to show them all. Remaining today is the footage left on today's trucks.

Timeline​

The default view has one row per truck:

  • Due: the due time, and where it came from (plant default, truck default, the day of the week, or this date).
  • Ready: when the last order is projected to finish, and how far ahead of or behind the due time that is, such as 4h 18m late. When some orders have no projection, it says how many.
  • Jobs · Remaining: how many orders are running, scheduled, unscheduled, on hold and done, and the footage left.
  • A lane across the day, for Yesterday and Today. It marks the due time and the current time, and shades production from now until the truck is ready. Time past the due time is black and labeled LATE. A dashed outline means some orders aren't projected yet. A thin blue track under the bars marks when a machine is scheduled to run the orders, so a gap between now and the track is time the truck's orders spend waiting in a machine's queue. Point at a block to see its order, times and machine.

Select the arrow at the end of a row to list the truck's orders under it. Each order shows its projected finish and machine, its status and footage, and its own lane, lined up with the truck's columns.

Cards​

Cards shows the same trucks as cards with a small lane. Select a card to see its due and ready times and its orders, worst first, in a panel at the right. Select it again to close the panel. The page remembers which view you used last.

Editing due times​

Users with the scheduler or administrator role can select a truck's due time, or choose Due Times… from its menu, to open the Due Times panel. Route Due Times at the top of the page opens it for any truck. Each part of the due time is edited in one place:

  • Next 14 Days shows the time each date gets and where it comes from. Type a time in a day to set it for that date only. Clear it to go back to the weekly pattern.
  • Weekly Pattern has the truck's Every day time and a time for each day of the week. Leave a day blank to use Every day, and leave Every day blank to use the plant default.
  • Specific Dates lists every date with its own time, including dates further ahead. Add Date sets a time for any date from today on.

Unsaved changes are outlined. Changes appear on the page and in the scheduler within a few seconds. Times for past dates are discarded after 90 days.