AAOM Handbook

Quantity

• One set of specifications for each discretionary Activity that is to be included in the Operating Master Schedule. • One set of specifications for discretionary Activities that must be removed from or moved in the Operating Master Schedule.

Quality

The following data shall be specified for each discretionary Activity to be included to the Operating Master Schedule; • the Business Structure identifier for the Activity (the identifier shall allow filtering of activities at any level of the structure), • the role accountable for the Activity, • the Activity description, and • the Work Management System Standard Job number for the Activity. where appropriate the; • trigger parameter, • trigger parameter start value (to identify where in the life cycle of an activity the forecast commences), • trigger value (the point at which the activity is scheduled), • trigger tolerance (earliest and latest schedule points around the trigger value), • constraints on scheduling (e.g. operating, down, full, empty, access), • scheduling commencement date (for activities that will only commence active scheduling at some time after the forecast commences), and • scheduling termination date (for activities that will only cease active scheduling at some time after the forecast commences).

where appropriate the; • Work Package duration,

• utilisation, • availability, • operating rate, • quality rate, • efficiency.

To cater for the situations where variability in a parameter will be significant in determining the confidence of meeting performance targets for a process, the model must allow a probability distribution to be entered for the parameter. The probability distribution for a performance parameter shall, as a minimum, be defined by; • the values of the minimum, maximum, mean and mode of the distribution, • the 'shape factor' (i.e. spread of the distribution – e.g. standard deviation), In cases where the variability in the parameter will not be significant in determining the confidence of meeting performance targets the model shall use a mean value only.

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Operational Planning: Set Operating Master Schedule

Updated: August 2018

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