Shift Templates

Shift templates are essential entities used to set up the production schedule. They represent a blueprint of a specific shift during the week and can be assigned to multiple production lines to generate a particular shift based on the template.

As mentioned, based on shift templates shifts are generated for specific production line. This setup is editable for each production line in production lines planning.

This screen shows all the shift templates within the P4 application and allows us to either create, edit, delete, or copy shift template. The list of shift templates can be filtered by all shown columns, it means by:

ID
Title
Code
Description
Begin Weekday
Begin Time
End Weekday
End Time

From the operational point of view, it is possible to

create new shift template via :create: button in the top right corner of the page (this possibility will show empty Shift Template detailed settings page).
edit existing shift template via button which will appear after moving cursor to the line you want to edit (this possibility will show Shift Template detailed settings page with saved data).
delete single existing shift template via button which will appear after moving cursor to the line you want to edit
delete multiple shift templates via choosing these (via clicking on the checkbox in the beginning of each line) and then clicking on the button which will appear in the top right corner
make a copy of existing shift template via button which will appear after moving cursor to the line you want to copy (this option will create a new object with the same data as was the one from which the copy was made)

Shift template detail screen

In the Shift Template detail screen, we are able to edit already created Shift Template or fill up all the information needed to create a new one.

Parameter name	Limitations	Possible values	Description	DB field
Title*	100 chars	free text	Title of the shift template.	[PRODUCTION_LINE].[TITLE]
Code*	50 chars	free text	Code of the shift template.	[PRODUCTION_LINE].[CODE]
Description	255 chars	free text	Description of the shift template.	[PRODUCTION_LINE].[DESCRIPTION]
Begin weekday*	defined values	all seven weekdays	Begin weekday of the shift template.	[SHIFT_TEMPLATE].[BEGIN_WEEKDAY]
Begin time*	00:00:00 - 23:59:59	time	Begin time of the shift template (during begin weekday).	[SHIFT_TEMPLATE].[BEGIN_TIME]
End weekday*	defined values	all seven weekdays	End weekday of the shift template.	[SHIFT_TEMPLATE].[END_WEEKDAY]
End time*	00:00:00 - 23:59:59	time	End time of the shift template (during end weekday).	[SHIFT_TEMPLATE].[END_TIME]

Shift template breaks (Shift break template)

In this detail, it is also possible to add planned shift breaks into shift template. It is possible via clicking the button . This button will open a new settings where it is possible to set up shift template breaks.

It is possible to

add a new record via clicking the button
delete existing record via clicking the button

Each shift template break requires following information:

Parameter name	Limitations	Possible values	Description
Time from*	00:00:00 - 23:59:59	time	Begin time of the break.
Time duration*	format HH:MM:SS	time	Duration of the break.
Reason Code*	defined values	all reason codes with “Production break” category	Reason code of the break.