When using our system, users have the ability to add or remove processes in the style while it's still active. An active style refers to a style that has active orders, which could be new, in progress, or bundled in the system. Changes in the style can impact these active orders significantly.

Changes can include:

• Adding or removing processes
• Making mandatory processes optional or vice versa
• Changes in standard process time
• Adding or removing a stage
• Changing processes dependencies
• Moving processes from one stage to another

To help control the consequences of these actions, users have three options to choose which entities should be affected:

• All batches inside active order: This action affects all batches inside the order, whether they were finished, inspected, still in progress, or new.
• Active batches only: This only affects batches that are still in-progress.
• Active batches inside that stage (by default): This affects active batches inside that stage only.

Removing a Process

If a process is removed, it means that this process was added by mistake. If the supervisors weren't aware of the issue, this process might have been assigned to a machine and workers might have already performed it. The removal of this process has a high impact on batches.

• Option A, B, C: The impact of removing a process is the same for all options. The number of batches affected will be more with Option A or B compared to Option C.

Changing a Process from Mandatory to Optional

Changing a process from mandatory to optional affects in-progress batches more than finished batches.

• Option A: Affects all batches, but finished batches won't get affected much because they have already done the process when it was mandatory. In-progress batches will change to finished if this process was the only one missing.
• Option B: Only in-progress and new batches will change to finished if this was the only missing process.
• Option C: Only in-progress batches and new batches inside the sections associated with the stage of this process will be affected.

Changing a Process from Optional to Mandatory

This change might affect all types of batches.

• Option A: Even the finished batches will be affected. For example, if a batch didn't do the process when it was optional, the status of the batch will change from finished to in-progress because they have to do this process now.
• Option B: Only in-progress and new batches will need to finish this mandatory process. Finished batches won't have to do it.
• Option C: Only the active batches inside that section will be affected. If some batches already finished this stage and moved to the next one, they won't change to in-progress.

Adding or Removing a Stage

The same consequences apply as in the adding and removing of processes because the Industrial Engineer (IE) needs to add processes inside it.

Changing Standard Process Times

These changes won't affect the statuses of batches. Instead, it will only change the estimated time to finish one piece in the whole style. It will also affect the efficiencies that were calculated. However, please note that only active orders and styles are affected by that change. If an order was already finished, the system won't change the efficiencies that were calculated before that change.

Moving a Process from One Stage to Another or Changing processes dependencies

Moving processes might change the statuses of batches inside orders. It will highly impact the in-feeding numbers of sections but will not change any batch statuses.

Understanding these changes and their impacts will help you make more informed decisions when modifying active styles in your system. Please reach out if you have further questions or need additional clarification.