Available working time for setup and produce activity is not the same.

[Former Member]

Hi,

For some resources, there are certain setups which require high skilled operators that work less time that the machine. In the setup matrix these setups are recognized because they take much longer than the normal setups.

How can I control that no setups with special operators are planned outside operators working time?

Let s say the machines work along the 3 day shifts and the setup operators only one shift per day.

I thought to use a secondary resource in the setup phase activity or adding a phase with the opertors modeled as a resource to the operation. It adds complexity to a solution the fact that setup times depend upon the setup matrix assigned to the resource so they are variable!

First option was not good because secondary resource cannot present relationship start-start and end-end with the primary resource, moreover, which lead time do we enter in the secondary resource?

Second option was not good either because setup times are variable for all the "special" resources and all of them use the same operators.

CTF

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Try mapping the scenario with sub operations and assign the highly skilled labor to the sub operation and machine to the main operations.

Rgs - Vikas