Maintain Sites (To Archive)

Purpose

Create and maintain the structure of production sites, areas, and lines. The site represents a production plant, areas allow you to organize the lines within the site.  Lines and line groups are the machines or processing units that are scheduled and sequenced in Phenix.

Prerequisites

An organization to contain the site has been created. The organization defines
the planning features that will be used in Phenix, the default line availability, and outages.

Sites

  1. Click on the menu path Setup>Sites to open the Sites screen.

    1. If you want to create a new site, click on Create Site at the top of the screen.

      1. Maintain the site's code, description, and select its time zone from the drop-down list.

      2. Click on “Save” to save the site information. Note that specific site screen and base options for the newly created site look different from the already well-maintained site.

    2. Clicking on a Site in the table or choosing “Details” in the right “Action” column will open the Site’s page.

      1. Displays the Site’s details, and its Areas, Line Groups, Resources, and Lines for review.

      2. For more on a Site's page, see Individual Sites section below.

  2. Additional functionalities found on the Setup>Sites screen:

    1. Click on All Lines at the top of the screen to display the list of all lines and line groups defined in every Site of the Organization.

      1. Lists each line with areas, types, and attributes.

    2. Click on Line Types at the top of the screen to create, edit or delete Line Types.

    3. Click on Line Attributes to create, edit or delete Line Attributes. To learn more about Line Attributes, go to the following link: Maintain Lines, Line Types, and Attributes.

      1. For more information on Line Types and Line Attributes, see Maintain Lines, Line Types, and Attributes.

Both Line Types and Line Attributes can be also created, edited, or deleted in the "Lines in Area" menu. See Individual Sites section below for more information.

Deleting an existing site is only possible on the Site’s page. See Individual Sites section below for more information.

Individual Sites

  1. On the Setup>Sites page, click on a Site entry to go to its page.

  2. To edit the Site’s details, on the Site’s page, click Edit.

  3. Areas, Lines, Resources, and Line Groups can all be created, maintained, and deleted on this page. See the sections below for more details on each.

Deleting an existing site is only possible when it is empty, i.e. does not contain any areas and lines. If the site is not empty, there is no delete or remove button.

After deleting all lines and all areas, a red Remove button will appear at the top of the screen.

Note that it is not necessary to delete all line groups and resources in order to be able to delete the site.

Areas

See Maintain Areas for the work instruction on creating and maintaining Areas.

Lines

See Maintain Lines for the work instruction on creating and maintaining production lines.

Line Groups

  1. Creating a Line Group:

    1. If no Line Groups exist in the site, the Create Line Group button is white and at the top of the screen.

    2. If at least one Line Group exists in the Site, the Create Line Group button is orange and under the Line Groups in [Site Name] header.

    3. Enter the Line Group ID and Description, select the Group Type, and add Members. Click Save when you’re done.

      1. For more information on Group Types and Members, see Maintain Line Groups and Resources.

  2. Maintain a Line Group:

    1. Under the Line Groups in Site [Site Name] header, find the Line Group you want to maintain, click Details in the right “Actions” column, and then Edit at the top of the page.

  3. Delete a Line Group:

    1. Under the Line Groups in Site [Site Name] header, find the Line Group you want to delete, and click in the right “Actions” column.

Resources

  1. Creating a Resource:

    1. If no Resources exist in the Site, the Create Resource button is white and at the top of the screen.

    2. If at least one Resource exists in the Site, the Create Resource button is orange and under the Resources in [Site Name] header.

    3. Enter the Resource ID and the Description, and then click Save.

  2. Maintain a Resource:

    1. Under the Resource in Site [Site Name] header, find the Resource you want to maintain, click Details in the right “Actions” column, and then Edit at the top of the page.

  3. Delete a Resource:

    1. Under the Resource in Site [Site Name] header, find the Resource you want to delete, and click in the right “Actions” column.