Schedule

The Schedule component of AVEVA Unified Supply Chain can be used to manage the day-to-day running of your supply chain models. Schedules are created by building scheduling cases, which descend from a supply chain model's master case, or alternatively from other scheduling cases. A scheduling case shares process models with its parent planning case.

The scheduling environment shares a common set of reference data with the other applications in AVEVA Unified Supply Chain.

The scheduling environment is available only if you have a valid Spiral Schedule license.

For more information about checking for installed licenses, see the Configure your Licenses topic. Contact AVEVA support (spiral.support@aveva.com) for information about obtaining new licenses.

Schedule AI Assistant

Schedule AI Assistant is a cloud-based solution that generates optimized schedules using artificial intelligence, according to the constraints and initial conditions specific to your site.

Schedule AI Assistant is a separate product from the desktop version of Schedule. It is licensed per site, including access for all Schedule licensed users. This is an incremental fee in addition to the Schedule subscription fee.

If your organization has adopted Schedule AI Assistant, you can access it by clicking the Schedule AI Assistant button in the Home ribbon tab when on the Display page.

The Outages feature is also used in conjunction with Schedule AI Assistant.

The help for Schedule AI Assistant is available here.

The scheduling environment

The main scheduling environment includes many pages, some of which have several tabs. Browse the various pages using the left pane.

The list of pages is organized into sections, such as Data and Settings. Click a section header to expand or collapse a section.

You are likely to do most of your work in the Display page, and especially in the Tabular and Gantt panes.

Type in the Search box at the top of the left pane to filter the list of pages. Filtering happens dynamically as you type.

Click the arrow icon to the right of the search box to collapse the left pane to a vertical bar. Click again to expand the pane.

While the pane is collapsed to a vertical bar, click the bar to quickly show the pane and hide it again. This allows you to show the pane only when needed, leaving the space available to display your data at all other times.

In addition to the main scheduling environment, additional environments are available to support specific workflows:

• Multi product blend environment

• Multi feed blend environment

• Multi pipeline blend environment

• Reconciliation environment

• Publish environment

Flowsheet

The scheduling case uses the flowsheet as defined in the supply chain model's master case. The topology, as defined in the master case, must include all the asset connections that can be used in scheduling, along with the points of entry for raw materials, and points of exit for end products. Relevant assets defined in the flowsheet will automatically be available in the Tabular and Gantt panes.

The connectivity, as defined on the flowsheet, is used to define how assets are connected together in the scheduling case. That is, the connections present on the flowsheet determine which assets can feed a particular asset, and in turn which other assets can be fed by that particular asset. For example, as shown by the previous figure, a flowsheet may define a tank F101 which can be fed by an ethanol feed EtOH Feed. In the Tabular pane, tank F101 is indeed allowed to be fed by EtOH Feed.