Status inquiries

Time information that is displayed by the dialogs is in the local time of the dialog user. Using the dialogs, you can request detailed or summary information on individual job streams, jobs, and workstations, as well as summary information concerning workload production as a whole. You can also display dependencies graphically as a network at both job stream and job level. Status inquiries:

• Provide you with overall status information that you can use when considering a change in workstation capacity or when arranging an extra shift or overtime work.
• Help you supervise the work flow through the installation; for example, by displaying the status of work at each workstation.

• Help you decide whether intervention is required to speed up the processing of specific job streams. You can find out which job streams are the most critical. You can also check the status of any job stream, as well as the plans and actual times for each job.
• Help you to check information before making modifications to the plan. For example, you can check the status of a job stream and its dependencies before deleting it or changing its input arrival time or deadline. See Modifying the current plan for more information.
• Provide you with information on the status of processing at a particular workstation. Perhaps work that should have arrived at the workstation has not arrived. Status inquiries can help you locate the work and find out what has happened to it.