Functions in Gantt Chart
planeus offers handy Gantt chart tools to help you fine-tune your schedule and keep your production running smoothly.
Solving Conflicts in Gantt Chart
In the Order Gantt View, you can click a Work Step and choose:
- Fill in Gaps left
- Fill in Gaps right
This will shift the selected Work Step as far as it can go left or right, until:
- It touches or overlaps with the previous Work Step.
- The Resource has no more capacity during the new time slot.
Plan Conflictless for Successors
In the Resource Gantt View, you can select a Work Step and schedule all successor Work Steps forward without Resource conflicts. Plan Conflictless for Successors means that this rescheduling is applied on only the successing Work Steps of your chosen Work Step. The selected Work Step itself and all previous Work Steps remain unchanged.
This rescheduling will remove all Resource conflicts, tasks may be moved later, even if these exceed the predefined delivery date.
Plan Conflictless from Here
Plan Conflictless from here means that this rescheduling is applied starting at the current point in the plan, excluding what was scheduled before this time.
All tasks that are planned after this point will be scheduled so that no machine or person is used at the same time.
This rescheduling will remove all Resource conflicts, tasks may be moved later, even if these exceed the predefined delivery date.
Free Move
The Free Move option lets you move a Work Step freely, ignoring the usual predecessor-successor relationships defined in the Technology.
You can enable and disable the Free Move feature on or off under Administration > Settings.
Optimize Utilization in Resource Gantt chart
In the Resource Gantt View, you can optimize how work is arranged on a resource:
This tool:
- Closes gaps between Work Steps.
- Removes unnecessary overlaps.
- Re-orders Work Steps from left to right.
However:
- It only works when all Work Steps use the same resource across production orders.
- It stops if:
- A production order uses multiple resources.
- It hits a paused Work Step.
The feature can’t be used with resources marked as “Allow Multi-Assignment.”
Locking / Fixing Production Order
Why is there a lock icon?
A lock icon in the Gantt Chart means that Production Order is locked and cannot be moved in the schedule. If you want to lock a Production Order and its Work Steps in place:
- Right-click the Production Order.
- Choose Lock Production Order.
Now the Production Order is locked and cannot be moved.
How to unlock a production order?
You can right-click again to unlock a Production Order if you need to make changes.
planeus's Gantt chart tools will help you adjust your plan quickly and safely, keeping your schedule neat and your resources efficiently used.