Model your facility with floorplans

Outcome

The floorplan of your site is in Orkyo. Your schedulable stations are drawn onto it as shapes, and related stations are grouped.

The Utilization board and the floorplan view then speak the same geography as your shop floor.

Before you begin

• A floorplan image of your site, as PNG or JPEG, up to 10 MB. A simple diagram works as well as an architectural drawing.
• The Editor or Admin role.
• At least one site. Workspace admins manage sites under Administration → Sites.

Step 1 — Upload the floorplan

1. Go to Stations, then open the Floorplan tab. The plan belongs to the site, and holds every station type at once.
2. Select the upload action. The Upload Floorplan Image dialog opens: “Upload a floorplan image for this site. Accepted formats: PNG, JPEG (max 10MB)”.
3. Drop your image on “Drop your floorplan here or click to browse”. Then select Upload.

The image becomes the canvas that the rest of this guide draws on. Each site has its own floorplan. To model another location, switch sites in the top bar.

Step 2 — Draw your stations

Turn on edit mode. Pick the station type the shape becomes, then a tool. The canvas gives you on-screen instructions at every step:

• Rectangle — “Click to place first corner”, then “Click to place opposite corner”.
• Polygon — click to add points, three at a minimum. Then “Double-click to complete polygon”. Use this for an irregular area.
• Circle — click the centre, then click to set the radius.
• Press ESC to cancel a shape you started.

When a shape closes, Orkyo asks what it is for. If stations of that type already exist here without a shape, give the shape to one of them. Otherwise create a new one.

Draw one shape per schedulable thing: a mill, a cell, a bench, or a bay. Precision matters less than recognition. A planner who looks at the floorplan must know immediately which machine is which.

To move a station later, drag it. To resize it, select it and drag a handle.

Step 3 — Describe each station

Open a drawn station to edit its details:

• Code — a short identifier. This is useful on dense boards.
• Name — for example Assembly Area A.
• Description — optional context.
• Capacity — how many units of work or people it holds.

Then add its Capabilities. These are the criteria that this station satisfies, from your criteria vocabulary. Fill in the type’s own fields as well, such as a spindle speed or a last-service date. Finish with Save Changes.

Step 4 — Group related stations

1. Open the Groups tab. Groups belong to one type, so pick the type first.
2. Create groups that mirror how you talk about the facility, such as Hall 1, Cleanrooms, or CNC cells. Add the relevant stations to each group.

Groups keep a large list navigable. A group-level capability applies to every member, so you can set a capability once on Cleanrooms instead of on each room.

Step 5 — See it on the board

Go to Utilization → Stations. Your drawn stations appear as scheduling rows, and the collapsible floorplan ties each row back to its physical location.

Drag a request onto a row. The geography and the schedule are now the same picture.

Next steps

• Fill the board: Create your first schedule.
• Make matching real: Match requests to the right resources.