Hello,
We have been experimenting with resource capabilities to help schedule our welders. We have 10 welders, which is 80 hours a day of capacity, 400 hours a week, assuming 100% efficiency. Three of those welders have the capability to weld stainless steel (tig welding), that means of the 80 hours there are 24 hours of tig capacity. Now not every week do we need the capability to tig weld, so we want these welders used to non-tig weld, called mig welding. We have welders 1 to 7 setup to mig weld only, and welders 8, 9 & 10 to mig weld as a 2nd priority.
The products that require mig welding have a route where the resource requirement that use the above Capability of Mig. Also on these routes the Resource Qty was set to 10.
The products that require tig welding have a route where resource requirement is a resource group called WELDINGTIG and the Resource Qty was set to 3.
This resource group contains the three welders that are capable of tig welding.
We loaded a two schedule for welding at full capacity – 400 hours per week. The Capacity requirement statistics look like this:
We were hoping it would be closer to 80 hours per week per welder.
We also tried to setup the mig routes’ resource qty to 7. Then it scheduled the 700 hrs of mig welding on welders 1-7 and the 94 hours of tig welding on welders 8, 9 & 10. It ended up being an even more unbalanced schedule.
Welders 1- 7 100 hrs
Welders 8-10 31.33 hrs.
Anyone have any suggestion?
Thanks for reading this.