The following work schedule is to be set up for a group of employees in a shift calendar:
The employees involved each work one week on the early shift and one week on the late shift.
The early shift begins at 6:00 am and ends at 2:45 pm on Mondays to Fridays. The early shift stops working for a lunch break from 12:00 noon to 12:30 pm.
Every second week, the same group of employees works on the late shift. The late shift begins at 2:30 pm and ends at 10:00 pm. A break is provided in this shift from 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm.
The start time for the shift calendar is set to 01/01/08 06:00:00. The end time is set to 12/31/08 22:00.
The work schedule described above can be mapped in a calendar event.
Prerequisite
You have already created a Schedule model with four calendar events, the early shift, the late shift, the break in the early shift, and the break in the late shift.
Procedure
Definition of the early shift
Right-click the calendar event you have named Early shift.
Click Date and time. The corresponding dialog opens. Enter the date 01/07/08 and 06:00:00 as the start time.
Select Until to specify an end time and enter the date 01/07/08 and time 14:45:00.
Enable Recurring event.
Click Manage recurrence. The corresponding dialog opens.
Set the frequency to Weekly.
Set the interval to 2.
Select Monday as the day of the week in Recurs on specific days of week and click Add. Every Monday will be added to the list. Repeat this process for Tuesday through Friday.
Enter 12/31/08 for Until in Recurrence end.
Click OK first in the Manage recurrence dialog and then in the Date and time dialog.
The details for the early shift have been saved.
Definition of the late shift
Right-click the calendar event you have named Late shift.
Click Date and time. The corresponding dialog opens. Enter the date 01/14/08 and 14:30:00 as the start time.
Select Until to specify an end time and enter the date 01/14/08 and time 22:00.00.
Enable Recurring event.
Click Manage recurrence. The corresponding dialog opens.
Set the frequency to Weekly.
Set the interval to 2.
Select Monday as the day of the week in Recurs on specific days of week and click Add. Every Monday will be added to the list. Repeat this process for Tuesday through Friday.
Enter 12/31/08 for Until in Recurrence end.
Click OK first in the Manage recurrence dialog and then in the Date and time dialog.
The details for the late shift have been saved and the calendar event has been identified as active time.
Definition of the break for the early shift
Right-click the calendar event you have named Early shift break.
Click Date and time. The corresponding dialog opens. Enter the date 01/07/08 and 12:00:00 as the start time.
Select Until to specify an end time and enter the date 01/07/08 and time 12:30:00.
Enable Recurring event.
Click Manage recurrence. The corresponding dialog opens.
Set the frequency to Weekly.
Set the interval to 2.
Select Monday as the day of the week in Recurs on specific days of week and click Add. Every Monday will be added to the list. Repeat this process for Tuesday through Friday.
Enter 12/31/08 for Until in Recurrence end.
Click OK first in the Manage recurrence dialog and then in the Date and time dialog.
Right-click the Early shift calendar event, and select Attributes.
Activate the Unscheduled time attribute in the Simulation attribute type group to identify the calendar event as inactive time.
Click Close.
The details for the early shift break have been saved and the calendar event has been identified as inactive time.
Definition of the break for the late shift
Right-click the calendar event you have named Late shift break.
Click Date and time. The corresponding dialog opens. Enter the date 01/14/08 and 18:00:00 as the start time.
Select Until to specify an end time and enter the date 01/14/08 and time 18:30:00.
Enable Recurring event.
Click Manage recurrence. The corresponding dialog opens.
Set the frequency to Weekly.
Set the interval to 2.
Select Monday as the day of the week in Recurs on specific days of week and click Add. Every Monday will be added to the list. Repeat this process for Tuesday through Friday.
Enter 12/31/08 for Until in Recurrence end.
Click OK first in the Manage recurrence dialog and then in the Date and time dialog.
Right-click the Late shift calendar event, and select Attributes.
Activate the Unscheduled time attribute in the Simulation attribute type group to identify the calendar event as inactive time.
Click Close.
The details for the late shift break have been saved and the calendar event has been identified as inactive time.
You can now assign human resources to the model so that the working hours are calculated on the basis of this schedule during the simulation.