Scenarios

A customer has ordered a sweater with a new knitting pattern in a specific color and with different sizes. The order is to be recorded in the STOLL PPS and then the knitting on the machine is to be triggered. For this a pattern creation order is generated in the STOLL PPS, to determine the parameters about knitting technique for the knitting programs.

The pattern creation order is executed on the knitting machine by an operator. After changing the knitting program and making it available for the order, the successful pattern creation is reported back to the STOLL PPS. The knitting order can be generated. For that, an appropriate order template is used, copied and enhanced since more orders of the same sweater are expected. The fields that are still missing (e.g. the pattern to be knitted, the piece number, the type of fabric and the estimated production duration) are recorded and the template and the order are then saved.

The dispatcher generates a knitting order for knitting socks. This order is produced regularly so that no new time specifications are required for generating the order. Therefore, the allocation of the order to a machine is immediately carried out. Depending on the work load of the appropriate machines a concrete machine is selected for knitting the order.

For the target machine there is scheduled an order that can be executed later on as well.

The dispatcher assigns the new order to this machine and changes the sequence of the orders to produce the new order before the existing orders. After ensuring that the planning is correct, he releases the order.

A larger company manages its customer orders in a private ERP. The ERP is connected to the STOLL PPS via the ERP interface. The user of the ERP has the possibility of generating one or more knitting orders based on one customer order and to transfer them to the STOLL PPS for processing.