MS Project's assignment units and maximum units are not based on any concept
of capacity. They're based on how many hours a day they are physically
present able to work (resource calendar) and how efficient they are in
converting time spent into man-hours of work output (maximum units).
Schedules are based on time - are you saying your resources stay at work
until they have done how ever many meters are required, up to a max of 200,
while completely disregarding the length of time it takes to do those
meters? What if that required them to be there 12 hours, 18 hours, 24
hours?
Your numbers don't seem to jive ... you are saying their capacity is both
200 and 150. Do you mean if they have to do 50 their REMAINING capacity is
150?
Assuming your normal workday is 8 hours, aren't you saying your resources
produce 25 meters an hour? So if the deliverable is 50 meters, the task
requires 2 man-hours of work. If the resource doesn't have anything else to
do at the same time, it will take him 2 hours to do the meters. There's
your conversion to something Project can understand. Task: Assemble Meters,
Duration: 2 hours, Resource: Joe Worker 100%, Work: 2 man-hours. Remember
that Project's main concern is the earliest the Assemble Meters task can
start (when the parts are there), when it actually will start after that
earliest possible start (when the resource is there), and when the follow-on
task that uses the meters can start (how long assembly will take).
Capacity, etc, is only relevant in so far as it effects those scheduling
issues.
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Steve House [Project MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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LGroendijk said:
For two of my resources the capacity is not set on the amount of hours
they
work but on the meters they can produce. Is there a way to show their
capacity?
e.g.
Let's say they can produce 200 meters a day, for 1 project they have to
produce 50 meters, the capacity is 150 meters for that day.
