Optimizing resources-stacking

[ticko]

Hi, I am working in furniture company and in this time we are using very
primitive system of planning (just critical machines and machine times per
work order), which is not linked with our data base.
We would like to improve planning to all machines in our factory and to all
task that occur during production for every single element of furniture. So
in general we are dealing with around 10.000task/month, and we are trying to
have 2 month plans, so 20.000 task all. And 65 different resources (machines)
Now the biggest problem: I would like to stack task of the same work order
on one of the machine(resource) in production together (due to high cost of
setting up the machine: coulor, thicknes,…)-optimization of the
machine(resource). I am not able to do so with any type of Constraint type, I
don’t know the dead line for this machine (I only have the dead line of work
order), not with priority,…
Is it possible to do that automatically, is it possible to define some
condition for resources.
Or it is easier and smarter to by one of MRP, ERP, SCM planning software,
that includes resource optimization and implement it in the company?

thank you for replay

 

[Tom]

This really sounds like you should be using a production scheduling tool and
not a project planning application.