Scheduling Resources Employees and

Machines

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Employee As Resources

Employee’s are the first type of resource that we will be discussing.  Employee’s work a specific number of hours each day, week, month and year.   Each individual employee is a resource with a specific capacity.   An employee resource needs to have specified how many hours on each individual day that employee is able to work.   Employee’s are a unique type of resource unlike most machines, employee’s can do multiple types of jobs. Employee’s can also do multiple jobs simultaneously and run multiple machines simultaneously.  In most situations employee’s themselves are using other resources, i.e. machines in order to get their job done.   Therefore each step of a job process may take multiple resources at the same time. Not all jobs require both an employee and a machine resource, some jobs require just an employee, i.e. assembly.

Machines

Machines are the second type of resource.  Machines are assets (not employee’s) that perform work for a specific number of hours each day, week, month and year.   Each machine is a resource with a specific capacity to do work. Many times you could group common machines into work centers which have capacity.  Each machine in a work center group needs to have its own hours of operation.   Machines are also unique because machines can run without an employee resource involved, machines can run one to one with an employee resource or a machine can run with multiple employee resources simultaneously.    Example of a machine running by itself would be a dryer.  A dryer is loaded by an employee resource but the dryer mainly run unattended.   An example of a machine that is one to one with an employee resource would be a non automated welder.  A welder’s equipment and a welder would be a one to one resource situation.   A final example of a machine which requires multiple employee’s would be a large press where there could be 2 or more employee’s participating in the usage of the machine.

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