Can Project be used for production and asset management?

[Chris]

Can Project be used for production and asset management? Can project be used
to replace a work order system, such as DataStream 7i?

 

[Rob Schneider]

I'm personally not familiar with DataStream 7i, but from what I know of
"work order" systems, I doubt you can come close. Project is a project
management calaculation tool to aid in the management of projects.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Michael D. Long]

I have to agree with Rob. Based on extensive experience with applications
to manage the shop floor, MS Project would be very constraining. While each
work order could be treated as a project (or depending on granularity, a
task), such an approach would only work for very low volume environments
with extremely simple needs.

 

[John Sitka]

Micheal can you elaborate on this extensive experience a little.
I am trying to get some kind of schedule set up for a Build to Order
shop. I've looked at a lot of stuff lately. They all lack the
degree of concurrency I need and the ability to distribute
task status updates to the web.
Recent Project Server experience has shown a lot of promise
but there are some hurdles I'm trying to get over and it seems
I could really use some input from someone who thinks in terms
of hourly production environments rather than historical
documentation of a long term start to finish project.
Maybe you could chime in on some of my recent threads.
It's one of those times where I just need the slightest bit
of valueable information and that catalyst could really
have a big thought process change
I'm sure you've been in a similar situation, it is so frustrating but
thrilling to.

Thanks