The day's plan

What it does

The day's plan, on All sites under the presses, proposes which press takes which job. The soonest-due job chooses first. A press that already has the roll for a job wins it, then a press already given that stock today. A press must take the roll and its printable width must fit the job, either way round.

Each press is a card with its jobs in order and a line such as 3 jobs, about 14 ft of roll, 1 roll to load, 1 roll change. Two lists sit under them: No press takes these, each with its reason, and Not in the plan, for a saved job whose last save said nothing of how it prints. Its reason ends by telling you to open it, let the sheet be laid out and save it again.

A job already put on a press stays where it is put, at its place. Nothing here reaches a press until a supervisor presses the button, Put N jobs on these presses, which puts each job as if put one at a time. A person who is not a supervisor puts the jobs they have, one at a time, from Jobs.

Why it matters for your shop

• Fewer roll changes. Jobs are grouped by press and roll, so the morning starts with the sums done.
• A job is never dropped quietly. What no press can take is listed with why: no stock, no roll width, too wide for any press.
• It is a suggestion. The press keeps its own queue, and a person at the press starts every job.

How to use it

1. Press All sites in the column and find The day's plan under the presses.
2. Read each press's card and the two lists beneath.
3. A supervisor presses Put N jobs on these presses. Each job joins the waiting roll for its stock, and the shop's press connector brings it down.
4. Read the answer: how many were put, any refused and why, and how many wait for the next go. At most a hundred go at once.

So far we have tried putting jobs on presses against a stand-in press connector, not yet beside a shop's own.

Learn more

See Put on a press: the hand-over and The whole roll and the roll view.