Shift Scheduling - v11 Upgrade

OFS v11 introduces the ability to define and manage Shift Schedules within Fusion-Manager.

For some time, OFS has had the capability to automate primitive schedules, but OFS v11 introduces a significant leap in the shift scheduling capability with:

• Shift Schedules defined by end user administrators in Fusion-Manager
• Shifts are able to be associated with a repeating cyclical pattern of 1-52 weeks.
• Future shifts are able to be scheduled to 1-minute precision.
• Patterns able to be defined for both simple and complex scenarios
  • Simple examples like 24 x 5 (3 shifts, 5 days a week)
  • More complex patterns with e.g. 4 days on, 4 days off can also be defined.

Defining Schedules

Schedules are created and managed by OFS Administrators in Fusion-Manager. Users can create patterns and assign them to lines in our new Schedules module. For enterprise or multi-level organisation customers, Shift Schedules are defined at the Enterprise level, so you can define different patterns for different business units or sites:

Above, a screenshot of the new Fusion-Manager Schedule view is shown. From here, users can define the pattern of shifts that should be started on lines associated with that schedule.

Assigning a Schedule

Within the Schedule Assignment tab, each OFS-enabled line can have either one or zero schedules assigned to it:

If you assign a line a schedule that contains Operators or Crews not assigned to that line, OFS will warn you about the error which will prevent scheduled shift starts from being activated:

Once a schedule is active, at the assigned time, OFS will activate the new shift, ending any previous shift, and a log will be recorded in the OFS transaction log in OFS Analytics for that line.