Recent Updates
2007-05-18 Enhanced Data Model with v0.07 Release
Substantial work on the data model has been going on silently in the background resulting in the implementation into this release. Some of the main chages include distinction and grouping of resources and products, customized attributes modeling for resources and products, and product relations along the production routing. Besides “standard” relations, the model also provides mechanisms for modeling exceptions on the product-resource and product-route relationships. The parametrization of the resource and capacity model is strongly supported through customizeable and coded attribute categories. Further model customization possibilities are present and are documented in the release notes and solution documentation.
The present solution provides a clear division into master data, business logic, and results keeping by separation into distinct packages. This approach allows for substituting the existing components and integrating external business logic algorithms or results data warehousing into the solution. Besides a model calculation component, a primitive validation component has been added. Both will be subject to enhancement in the upcoming versions.
- Updated to jMatter revision 545 from 2007-05-10
- Changed default browsing mode to table view
- Renamed Product class to ProductGroup
- Renamed Parameter class to ResourceParameter, AvailabilityMfg to ResourcePercentAttribute, MachinesInstalled to ResourceParameterInteger
- Linked ResourceParameter also to ResourceGroup
- Added ResourceNamedAttribute to ResourceParameter
- ResourceNamedAttribute category as AbstractChoice and customizable list in “resources/data/resourcenamedcategories.json”
- Customization of ProductAttribute with a list in “resources/ data/productattributecategories.json”
- Added Yield class per operation, product group, and date
- Moved secondary relations to tabs
- Added new class Product
- Added Route class to link several process plans in sequence and to a plant
- Changed ProductGroup relation from ProcessPlan to Route
- Made Operation-ProcessPlan relation many-to-many
- Date format customization
- Changed ProductAttribute to be a category and value
- New class ProductRelation to model relations between source and target product for product conversions like assembly, or product diversification
- Added preset, coded parameters to ResourceParameterPercent
- Added sequence of process plans in route with the “Sequence_ProcessPlan” class
- Added sequence of operations in process plan with the class “Sequence_Operation”
- Added exception class (Exception_ResPgOp) for product groups on operations and resources and included preliminary preset selection types
- Added exception for products using process plans (class “Exception_ProdProcessplan”) and included preliminary preset selection types
- Moved results classes to new package “crpresult”
- Tentatively included a basic validation component
- Created icons for: ProductGroup, Route, Exception_ProdProcessplan, Exception_ResPgOp, Sequence_ProcessPlan, Sequence_Operation, Yield, Validate, ProductRelation, EffectiveDate, DateSelector, ResourceParameterInteger, ResourceParameterPercent, ResourceNamedAttribute
2007-05-08 Released v0.06 with simple results calculation
This version is not about colossal changes. A new approach has been taken in dividing the solution into two independent components. While the crpmodel package is the fundament for the resources master data, and the capacity results, a new package “crplogic” is responsible for handling the business logic and calculation algorithms. Correspondingly, the two new classes “Loading” and “Execute” have been placed in the “Results” folder. On the execute class, a context menu “Calculate Loading” will process all demand quantities for products with respective process plans, operations, resource groups, and process times, and store the results per product, operation, and resource group in the “Loading” class.
- New folder “Results”
- Added new results class “Result_ResProdOp”
- Automated creation of class entries for relations and calculation of resource group loading per product and operation.
- Changed ProcessTime relation from Resource to ResourceGroup
- Added new package “crplogic” that holds the business logic, and algorithms
- Changed package name from “crp” to “crpmodel”
- Created a new class “Execute” to execute all calculations
- New icons for: Plan, Result_ResProdOp, Execute
