2.1.5.1 Gantt Viewer

The Gantt Viewer provides graphic representations of operations and the resources assigned to them along the operation cycle time line. The Gantt chart can be used to balance the workload of each work station or work cell, and of the entire production line.

The Gantt Viewer contains the Gantt chart which represents operations by colored horizontal bars. The length of a bar reflects an operation's duration. Dependencies between operations are represented by arrows, originating from the completion edge of an earlier operation and pointing to the starting edge of the subsequent operation. You can view the Gantt chart from the operation perspective as well as from the resource perspective [Siemens-2013a].

The Gantt Viewer is, however, not part of the current version of this tutorial. It will be included in the next version update.