Create crews. Be sure to populate the following new fields on the record view: Vehicle, Starting X Coordinate, and Starting Y Coordinate. The Vehicle is the vehicle the crew is assigned, and it may meet some of the WO activity qualifications along with the crew’s employees. Starting X Coordinate and Starting Y Coordinate are used to determine the crew's starting location each workday. The Constraint Optimizer uses this information to determine the crew’s optimal WO activity dispatching and sequencing for the day.
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See the Vehicles (assets) section for details on creating vehicles.
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See the WO equipment (A/S/P) section for details and handling of the location fields.
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If the crew is expired (via Expiration Date) or Out of Service, it will not be dispatched.
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When determining the optimal sequence for each individual employee’s WO activities, the Constraint Optimizer will use the crew’s location (Starting X Coordinate and Starting Y Coordinate) as their starting location for the workday.
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It will make sure the crew can make it to the location of the last WO activity it dispatches before the employee’s shift ends (i.e., the CO does NOT make sure the last activity can be completed before the end of the shift, only that it can be started).
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