More than 5 shift entries per day?

[Dale Newman]

I have a resource that has 3 shifts daily. Each shift has a lunch. One
shift starts on the previous day (e.g. 11 PM previous day TO 7 AM day of). I
think I would need these shift entries for my calendar:

1. 12 AM to 4 AM - 3rd Shift Before Lunch
2. 4:30 AM to 7 AM - 3rd Shift After Lunch
3. 7 AM to 12 PM - 1st Shift Before Lunch
4. 12:30 PM to 3 PM - 1st Shift After Lunch
5. 3 PM to 8 PM - 2nd Shift Before Lunch
6. 8:30 PM to 11 PM - 2nd Shift After Lunch
7. 11M to 12 AM - 3rd Shift Before Lunch - Actually Part Next Day

Well, there are only 5 shift entries. Is this a limitation that can not be
overcome? I would expect more than one person in the world would want to
have 3 shifts, and consider lunches as non-working time.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Dale,

Will any resource ever work following this working time plan?
When you are going to apply it thatis what will happen.
The resource will be scheduled for all 3 shifts and work 22,5 hours per day.
I don't think this is what you need; if not you may well be the only person
in the world

Hope this helps,

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello Dale,



As Jan explained, 22,5 hours per day is a little too much for most of human
beings.

I guess that you have 3 shifts per day (3 teams). So you would have to
create 3 calendars and assign these different calendars to the appropriate
resources.
Tools / Change Working Time... / New...

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Dale Newman]

Thank you for your replies.

Perhaps I'm using this wrong. But, the resource I intend to apply a 3 shift
calendar to is not a human being. It is a "work-center" operated by three
shifts of people.

Creating 3 calendars would be fine, if, I could assign 3 calendars to the
same resource. Yet, I can only assign one calendar to each resource as it's
"base" calendar. So, making 3 calendars wouldn't help.

I guess I assumed I wouldn't be the only person in the whole world to need
this, because I'm thinking of a single work-center, that is run 24-7 by three
teams / shifts. But, most people don't try to "level-load" a work-center in
a manufacturing environment using MS Project either...

Thanks for you help. If I'm stuck with 5 shift entries only, and there's no
way for me to work around it, I'll just have to trim out the lunches and
account for the missing half-hour elsewhere.

Thanks again,

Dale

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

I owe you an apology.
I simply ASSUMED you were wrong, and that is not good (to say it softly)
Sorry!!

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hi Dale,

What I did in a practical case which seems close to your :
I divided the resource "work center" in 3 resources. Each of them with a
specific calendar :

- Work Center Day Shift 06:00 - 14:00
- Work Center Swing Shift 14:00 - 22:00
- Work Center Graveyard Shift 22:00 - 06:00

Gérard Ducouret

 

[Dale Newman]

Gérard,

Thanks for the advice. Splitting up the Resource into Resource Shift
combinations may give me the detail I'd like to have

Thanks,

Dale