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Production Gantt

The component shows operations or orders on an interactive timeline by work center: bars with progress, dependencies, the critical path and conflicts. A bar can be dragged, an action can be run on the operation from it, auto-scheduling can be started with a chosen strategy and the bottleneck analysis can be opened.

Where it lives

  • Production orders list → tab “Gantt”.
  • Production planning workplace → tab “Gantt chart”.
  • Manufacturing home page → tab “Gantt”.

What it needs

Package
syntechproductiongantt (view element syn.ProductionGantt), installed together with the SynManufacturing package.
Service
SynProductionGanttService — the record count; SynProductionOrderWebService — completing an operation; SynSchedulingWebService — auto-scheduling, the bottleneck analysis and the time log events.
Rights
The licence SynProductionGantt.Use. Without it the component shows the licence message instead of the timeline.
Settings
The element properties set the height, whether weekends, dependencies, the critical path and conflicts are shown, the object schemas and the filter the component takes from its list page.
Data
Production orders and operations with planned dates, durations and work centers; auto-scheduling and the bottleneck analysis rely on a production plan.

The screen

Gantt chart on the Production planning workplace, October 2026
Real screenGantt chart on the Production planning workplace, October 2026
  • Toolbar“Expand” and “Collapse” of the rows, the scale “Hour” · “Day” · “Week” · “Month”, the button “Today”, the zoom in percent and, on the right, “Undo” and “Redo” for drags.
  • “Color scheme”The list that colors the bars: “By status”, “By priority”, “By order”, “By product”, “By work center”.
  • Display toggles“Weekends”, “Dependencies” and “Critical path”; dependencies and the critical path are off by default.
  • “Operations” / “Orders”Switches the timeline between operations by work center and aggregated order bars.
  • The canvasWork center rows with the column “Load”, operation bars with progress, the vertical “Today” line, the “Conflicts” mark on overlapping bars and the button “Load more” with the counter of loaded operations.
  • Bar context menu“Start setup”, “Complete setup”, “Start”, “Pause”, “Resume”, “Complete”, “Register downtime” and “Open details”.
  • Side panel“Operation details” or “Order details” with “Basic information”, “Dates”, “Progress”, “Required materials” and “Dependency links”.
  • “Auto-schedule” and “Analyze bottlenecks”The dialog “Auto-scheduling settings” with “Scheduling strategy”, “Production plan” and the options; the panel “Bottlenecks” with “Horizon”, “Constraint”, “Capacity”, “Utilization” and “Takt”.

Typical actions

Set up the view

  1. Pick the scale “Hour”, “Day”, “Week” or “Month” and press “Today” to come back to the current date.
  2. Switch between “Operations” and “Orders” depending on what you are planning.
  3. In “Color scheme” choose what colors the bars, and switch on “Dependencies” and “Critical path” if you need them.

Move an operation

  1. Find the operation bar in the row of its work center.
  2. Drag the bar to the new date — the following operations are shifted with it.
  3. Check the “Conflicts” mark: it flags bars that overlap on one work center.

Run an action on an operation

  1. Right-click the bar — the context menu opens.
  2. Choose “Start setup”, “Start”, “Pause”, “Complete” or “Register downtime”.
  3. For a completion enter the “Completed quantity” and the “Scrap quantity” and press “Complete”.

Start auto-scheduling

  1. Press “Auto-schedule” in the toolbar.
  2. Choose the “Production plan” and the “Scheduling strategy” — by order priority, by customer due date, by product type, by paint color, combined, by optimal load or around the bottleneck.
  3. Tick the options “Respect dependencies”, “Optimize setup times”, “Allow parallel operations”, “Consider work shifts”, “Start from today”.
  4. Press “Run scheduling” — the server itself accounts for dependencies, work calendars and shift schedules.

Find the bottleneck

  1. Press “Analyze bottlenecks” in the toolbar.
  2. Set the “Horizon” in days.
  3. Read “Constraint”, “Capacity”, “Utilization” and “Takt” to see which work center holds the flow back.

Limits and known behaviour

  • Without the licence SynProductionGantt.Use the component shows the licence message and builds no timeline.
  • Auto-scheduling by optimal load and the bottleneck analysis need a production plan; when the selected orders belong to several plans or to none, the component asks you to pick orders from one plan.
  • “Dependencies” and “Critical path” are off by default — they are switched on with the toolbar toggles.
  • Long operation lists are loaded in portions: the button “Load more” shows how many of the total operations are already on the timeline.
  • Every change — a drag, a context-menu action, an undo or a redo — is written to the record at once. When the server refuses it (no right, a status that does not allow it), the bar goes back and the component shows the reason, for example “Error updating dates” or “Could not undo the change”.
  • Dates before 1902 (empty placeholder values in the records) are treated as empty, so such an operation no longer pulls the timeline back to, say, January 1901.
  • Preset mobile quick filters are unsupported: the timeline only takes the filter of its own list page.
  • After a package update the page needs a hard reload (Ctrl+F5) — otherwise the browser keeps the previous bundle in cache.

See also

Full Syntech Manufacturing guide — sectionProduction GanttAll Syntech application guideshttps://syntechcompany.github.io/appsguides/
A Syntech Manufacturing component. Section, tab and button names match the product; the component language follows your Creatio profile language.