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Due work, closed days and changeovers

Describes RotoScheduler 0.3.3 · checked 2026-10-19 D5

The Due row shows the quantity due on each date, or the total for a week when dates are folded together. Red marks unmet or late demand. Read the job list for the reason; the due number is not the remaining quantity.

Closed days and unavailable arms

Closed machine-days and unavailable arms are hatched. The sample closes RM-2 on September 10 and makes RM-3 arm B unavailable on September 9. Select one to read its explanation. Both are set in Factory inputs. From 0.3.0 a generated day can also close an arm's last cycles when they would end after the working window; those cycles are hatched the same way, and the note strip says why. See When the day's time runs out.

Changeovers

The Changeover tab lists the date, machine, arm, cycle and the mold sets before and after a change. Return to Schedule for the time board. A mold change means removing or mounting molds; charging powder into a mold that stays mounted is ordinary service work. The same molds and copies written in a different order, split across two entries, or carried through an idle cycle or overnight count as kept, not changed; a day's first load is judged against what was truly left on the arm.