Master data: workstations, stations, qualifications

What the three resource types fundamentally mean is explained in the getting-started article. Here you find the management details of the Settings → "Master Data" page (visible to admin, planner and team lead) with its tabs "Slots", "Stations" and — for the admin only — "Qualifications".

The capacity semantics

The forms name the difference precisely:

• Workstation: "Capacity (simultaneous orders)" says how many orders may sit on this station in parallel (e.g. "Hall A, Station 1").
• Station: "Capacity (simultaneous tasks)" says how many work steps can run at the machine at the same time (e.g. "CNC router, spray booth").

These values are the benchmark for conflict detection. Maintained honestly, they are worth more than maintained optimistically.

Type and the "Control room" column

Every slot and every station has a "Type", for example "Workbench", "Material storage", "Saw" or "Field work / construction site". The list shows it with an icon in the "Type" column.

• When creating an entry, the type is required and comes first in the form. It pre-fills the capacity as long as you have not changed that field yourself.
• When editing, you can change the type; the saved capacity stays as it is.
• "No type" is only offered for entries that have no type so far.
• Hourly rates are only maintained on machines and plants.

All types and what they do are explained in Types for stations and slots.

With the control room (Premium), the "Control room" column is added. It shows the hall in which the object is placed (a click opens it), "Not placed" with the link "Place in control room", or "Not placeable (off-site)". If you change the type of a placed object, Gantway adjusts its footprint in the control room and tells you so. If the new footprint no longer fits at its previous spot, the object moves to the control room storage.

Qualifications — changes are Admin-only

Only the admin sees and changes the qualification catalog — for planner and team lead the tab is missing entirely. Workstations and stations are maintained by admin and planner by default. For each qualification, "Cost hourly rate (€)" and "Sales hourly rate (€)" are listed there, with the explanatory note: "These rates apply as a fallback when no individual hourly rates are stored for the employee. Cost = internal costs (costing). Sales = the price charged to the customer (quotes)."

Assigning employees happens directly in the qualification dialog, or the other way around via the employee profile.