About Process Orders

As a supervisor or an operator, you can use the Process Orders application in the Plant Applications Web Client to monitor the progress of a process order. Active process orders track actual production and quantities against process orders, and display remaining quantities, planned quantities, planned start times, and planned end times. You can reorder, change the status of, and edit process orders, and the production schedule provides normal, warning, and alarm indicators to aid in tracking progress. You can configure the execution paths controlled by a schedule out of following types of Schedule Control Flows, which can be configured in Plant Applications Administrator.

• All Units Run Same Schedule Simultaneously: This setting is used in production process that are running very fast and producing product at a high rate. This allows multiple Production Units to run against the same Schedule at the same time.
• Schedule Flows By Event: This setting allows a Process Order to flow through the process with the Production Event. When the Production Event is loaded on to the next Production Unit, the Process Order will follow that Event and become the Active order on that next Unit.
• Schedule Flows Independently: In this setting, Process Orders need to be pushed to the next Production Unit. The Order can be pushed manually or automatically. The Operator can push the Process Order from one Production Unit to the next. The Order can be pushed automatically through models. This can be done with various triggers that can be watched by a model.

All Units Run Same Schedule Simultaneously,