Flow Scheduling is an alternative method for production scheduling and execution. It is used in place of standard Work Orders or Advanced Repetitive to drive firm demand to your shop floor and record activity. It is appropriate for a company that is working in a Lean fashion or is looking to become Lean. For environments that utilize push / pull systems or Kanban this package may help you reduce overhead associated with creation of work schedules and reporting.

With each Progress database there are 2 types of database structures: The physical structure, as layout on the disk system, and the internal logical structure, how the database areas are defined. Physical StructureThe database physical structure can span multiple directories and have many files associated with it. Physical Files:Database files – The parent file of a database has an extension of .db. This file contain only data related to the physical structure of the file and data internal to the operation of the database. The extents (physical files that make up the data areas) have an extension of .dnn where nn is a number from 1 to 99. These are the physical files that hold the data and indexes.Before image files – thses files are used to store in flight transactional data has an extension of .bi if single extent, and .bnn if multiple extents.After Image files – these files are used to store the rollback data, they have an extension of .ai if single extent or ann if multiple extents.Each extent can...

Item Numbering Conventions
There are two schools of thought on part numbering, intelligent and non-intelligent numbers. The current best practice is to use non-intelligent (system assigned) part numbers, however many clients we visit insist on using intelligent ones. Before supporting that decision, you should consider some compelling arguments.