Machine timing in seconds / minutes

[Blue Photon]

I have found Project 2003 very useful for analysing and balancing timing of
automated production machines, but MS in thier wisdom never envisioned
projects needing seconds or fractions of a second as a time unit. All my
times need to be shown in minutes and hours, and this is ok for me but
awkward in management presentations.

Can someone tell me if Project 2007 now supports seconds?

Thanks

 

[Blue Photon]

Using hours for minutes and minutes for seconds sounds easy, but how can you
work with "Start" and "Finish" times? Is there a way to have these in hours
and minutes instead of calender dates?

Also, how can you have fractions of a second (minute)? I would like to
resolve down to at least 0.1 sec in my process.

Thanks
Blue Photon

 

[Rod Gill]

Project only goes down to minutes, so 0.1 sec is not possible.

Select Tools, Options then the View tab and select any format for dates with
a time.

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Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Blue Photon,

Try Tools/Options.../View tab and select in Date Format the setting that
just gives time : 12:33. Dates will then only show the start and finish
times. You can type in .1h to give you 6 minutes, so converting to seconds,
it will give 6 seconds. Typing in 1m will give you a conversion to 1 sec.

1 min is converted to zero and thus becomes a milestone. You can't get

shorter than that.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials