Advance a Process Order

About this task

You can manually move an active process order to a next linked production unit that is part of the production execution path. This option is enabled only for an Active process order.
Note: Before you can manually advance a process order, the Schedule Control Type needs to be set to Schedule Flows Independently on the General tab of the Execution Path Configuration dialog box in the Plant Applications Administrator.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Plant Applications Web Client.
  2. Select .
    By default, the Open page appears, displaying a list of process orders grouped based on the multiple execution paths (configured in Plant Applications Administrator) in a tabular format
  3. From the PATH filter, select the required execution path for which the Schedule Control Type is set to Schedule Flows Independently in the Plant Applications Administrator.
  4. For a process order with a status of Active, from the Actions column, select for a required process order.
  5. From the menu, select Advance PO Unit.
    The Advance PO Unit window appears displaying active and completed units under the Active Completed Units section and available production units under Advance To Units section.
  6. From the Advance To Units section, select the production unit that you want to advance the process order to and select the OK button.
    The selected production unit moved to the Active and Completed Units section.