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Creating production schedule in Project
Thanks, appreciate.
I tested that small sample myself also:
For me, kind of challenge I foresee, is to understand practically adding new orders in Project, and if so, the list of tasks will go on. Would there be any limitation, how to handle this part. Another challenge is how to avoid repetitive task, many sales orders items are repetitive, with multiple stages, can we make a task master for products, so if I add a product, its multiple stage products as sub task are added automatically?
As far as Project 3 is concerned, what I understood so far, is that One can create a project in the client and publish online and then shop floor team can update the actuals in online version, the planner will update back those updates to his client file and then only add new schedules and republish. This way sync on planning and production is maintained. Not very sure of this understanding as did not test yet, but if so, then its likely a useful feature for ongoing changes on shop floor.
Project's specification allows for more tasks and resources than are practical to manage, (e.g. 400K tasks, 700K resources), so no, there is no limitation on adding new orders. As I suggested, you should consider periodically dropping completed orders from the plan to maintain a workable file.
Avoiding repetitive tasks is a matter of careful file structure. For example, instead of laying out each order under it's own heading, it makes more sense to lay out the plan under the headings (summary lines) of process functions, as shown here:
Assignments of machine resources will perhaps more clearly shown when overallocated so appropriate action can be taken (i.e. manual shuffling of machine allocation or leveling based on Order priority).
Again, unfortunately I can't help you with pluses or minus of going with Project Online versus standalone Project.
John
- mkjain,
You're welcome and thanks for the feedback.
John Great! You drew my attention to test different file structure/s. I will definitely give a try and see what happens.
We tried Project today in more detail, and so that different views like team planner etc make it very clear where are resources are overallocated and so handy to resolve in the same view with the help of details page.
Thanks for all your support so far.
