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Jobs and exceptions

Describes RotoScheduler 0.3.3 · checked 2026-10-16 D5

The left-hand list shows each order or stock rule, its product and mold, planned good pieces against the pieces to make, and an order's due date. Select one to read its quantities and reasons in the inspector.

States

All shows the full list. Attention shows entries whose planned state is not Scheduled. The summary strip counts the required good pieces unmet, the late pieces with their piece-days and the wanted good pieces short (Wanted good pieces short: {count}); the plan's chip reads Minimums met when every job has at least its minimum. A closed order has nothing left to plan and does not appear under Attention merely because it is closed.

In Factory inputs, an order with a delivery offers Close instead of removal. Apply that change to retain the order and its deliveries with nothing more owed. See Count, Delivery and Report.

One load, several orders

A load states its products and can serve several orders of a product. Stock and planned good pieces serve safety stock first, then order minima, stock to its lower edge, the rest of the orders, and stock to its target. Within each, earlier due dates go first, then higher priorities, then the order's id; each takes the earliest pieces it can. A hand assignment loads the product; the same giving applies to it. See Minimum, wanted and maximum.

Assign remaining demand by hand

Select the order or stock rule, choose Cycle slots to assign and click a suitable destination. A cycle slot is one available production cycle. Where its mold has more than one copy, Copies sets how many copies each cycle mounts. An assignment can continue on later configured dates of the same machine and arm. Read the fit result before accepting a warning.

• An assignment mounts the same number of copies in every cycle, on one arm, including its continuation on later dates. To spread copies over several arms, assign one arm at a time.
• Copies offers up to the mold's copies, not only those free at the destination. An assignment that needs a copy in use elsewhere is refused and names the mold, date and cycle.
• The last cycle needed for a required quantity may cross the maximum. A cycle only for wanted pieces cannot. Extra pieces within the product's maximum are stock; pieces beyond it are surplus.

Remove planned work

Select a mold run and use Check unschedule selected run. Review the result, then confirm it. The run carries its products; the remaining pieces are given to orders and stock rules again. Protected work stays. Undo restores an applied change; it never changes the production log.