About Process Orders
As a supervisor or an operator, you can use the Process Orders application in the Plant Applications Web Client to monitor the progress of a process order. Active process orders track actual production and quantities against process orders, and display remaining quantities, planned quantities, planned start times, and planned end times. You can reorder, change the status of, and edit process orders, and the production schedule provides normal, warning, and alarm indicators to aid in tracking progress.
Note:
- Only one type of path is displayed which corresponds to the All Units run same schedule simultaneously control type selected from the Schedule Control Type drop-down list box in the Execution Path Configuration page of Plant Applications Administrator.
- If you have configured an execution path only with other two control types, Schedule Flows By Event or Schedule Flows Independently, the following message is displayed: No execution path configured.
- For all the process orders that are imported from the ERP, you must set the Control Type by manually editing each process order. By default, the Control Type for the process orders that are imported from the ERP is set to null.
As a supervisor, you can use the Process Orders application to perform the following actions: