4. Generate a Schedule

Now that you’ve successfully validated your setup, you can move on to generating your schedule.

To generate your schedule:

  1. Click Run under Scheduling of the Evolution Ribbon.

    The Run Setups panel will appear which contains a list of setups.

  2. Select the checkbox corresponding to the desired setup.

  3. Click Run. Evolution will submit the setup to the server for evaluation.

  4. The status of the job can be viewed in the Jobs window (under the Reporting Window tabs). When the status of the job is Completed, the job can be downloaded from the Jobs window. To download the job, select the job and click the .

    If errors are returned from the server, you can performed Advanced Validation to troubleshoot the setup configuration.

  5. The downloaded job will appear in the Project Explorer under a schedule collection. If the setup had an objective such as blend or NPV, the server may return several solutions. All of these will stored under the schedule collection.

    If the setup has additional objectives, the server can return several schedules. The schedule collection stores all of these schedules. The schedule icons represent the objective the schedule performed best in. The following table describes each icon:

    Icon Description

    Material Movement Schedule
    This icon represents when a schedule performed best in the material movement objective.

    Equipment Schedule
    This icon represents when a schedule performed best in the equipment objective.
    Min-Max Schedule
    This icon represents when a schedule performed best in the min-max objective.
    Blend Schedule
    This icon represents when a schedule performed best in the blend objective.
    Net Present Value Schedule
    This icon represents when a schedule performed best in the NPV objective.

    Solids Schedule
    This icon represents the following schedule cases:

    • A schedule has performed best in more than one objective.

    • A schedule contains a trade off between two objectives.

    You can use the tooltip mentioned below to determine which case a schedule falls under.

    You can confirm the objective performance by hovering over the icon in the project explorer. A tooltip describing the performance of each schedule objective will appear.