Check Schedule Compliance

Explanation

Use this activity to compare the schedules and their connected sub-schedules with a set of rules governing the work and rest time in the company. It is designed to support you in the process of creating and modifying schedules, by running an analysis that verifies whether a schedule complies with any work time rule that applies to the organization. 

If the analysis generates alerts, i.e., if work or rest time limits have been exceeded, you can go back to the schedule and correct the fault. Afterward, the analysis can be re-run, and the process can be repeated until it does not generate any more alerts.  

The comparison is started from a dialog box that guides you in the set up of the analysis. An analysis is saved with an ID and a name to make it easier for you to separate it from other analyses in the database. The result is presented in a separate window that supports group and sum for advanced queries and summaries based on the generated result. All analyses are also available in an overview window, which users may use, for example, to clean the database from obsolete analyses or to query for analyses. An analysis can also be printed as a paper report. The reports can be used as a method for distributing analysis results to users who only have access to the web-client in which the tools for checking schedule compliance are not available. 

Prerequisites

A work time compliance rule is necessary before a schedule comparison can be performed.

System Effects

The comparison result is saved to the database and displayed in the result window or printed on a paper report. 

Window

Schedule Compliance Comparison
 Schedule Analysis
 Schedule Analysis Log
Working Hours Schedules

Related Window Descriptions

Schedule Compliance Comparison
 Schedule Analysis
 Schedule Analysis Log
Working Hours Schedules

Procedure

  1. Open the Schedule Compliance Comparison dialog box. You can access it by right-clicking on Day-by-Day Schedules or Cycle Schedules tabs in the Working Hours Schedules window, and clicking Start Schedule Compliance Comparison. Alternatively, you can do the same in the Schedule Compliance Comparison Analysis window by adding a new record.
  2. Enter a name for the analysis.
  3. Select the comparison rule with which the selected schedules should be compared.
  4. Specify a reference period by setting the dates in the Comparison Start and the End Date fields.
  5. Clear the Alerts Only check box if you want the analysis to contain all results. Leave the box selected to display alerts only, i.e., rows that are the result of a compliance rule limit being exceeded. 
  6. Leave the Rolling result comparison check box cleared if the result should be presented as time periods following upon each other, or select it to present the result as a rolling time period.
  7. Click OK. 
  8. The Schedule Compliance Comparison Analysis window is opened automatically when the comparison is completed. Please take into consideration that a long time span in the Comparison Start and End Date fields might affect the performance of the calculation.