Resource driven activity

[shawn]

To all

Please forgive this newby question but I have been trying for a while to
figure it out with little success.

I have an activity : lets say the activity is to move a pile of gravel. The
pile is 10 tons and I can move 1 ton per day on average. How do I create
this activity in project where i can enter the tons and the resource to move
the pile and it will give me a duration. The next activity after that one is
another pile that is a different tonnage (say 12.6 tons).

The question is .. where do I put the tonnage into the activity? Is it a
material resource or something along those lines.. it is not very clear in
MS Project where you can place the amount within the activity?


AHGA!

Shawn
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[meg99]

To all

Please forgive this newby question but I have been trying for a while to
figure it out with little success.

I have an activity : lets say the activity is to move a pile of gravel.  The
pile is 10 tons and I can move 1 ton per day on average. How do I create
this activity in project where i can enter the tons and the resource to move
the pile and it will give me a duration. The next activity after that oneis
another pile that is a different tonnage (say 12.6 tons).

The question is .. where do I put the tonnage into the activity?  Is ita
material resource or something along those lines.. it is not very clear in
MS Project where you can place the amount within the activity?

AHGA!

Shawn
(e-mail address removed)    (remove the remove to email to me.. thanks!)

the resource has to be defined as "Material" then:

On the View menu, click Gantt Chart.
In the Task Name field, select a task, and then click Task
Information .
Click the Resources tab.
In the Units field for the material resource you want, type or select
the number of units to be used on this assignment. Variable material
consumption (variable material consumption: The time-based quantity of
material resource to be used in an assignment. A variable consumption
indicates that the amount of material that is used changes if the task
duration or assignment length changes.) is expressed with the material
label, and you can specify a usage amount. For example, if the rate of
consumption is 40 yards per day, type 40/d.

look in help for "material"



meg99

 

[shawn]

Meg99

Thanks for the info but not quite what I was looking for.

Is there a way to set a fixed amount of material and use this to determine
duration based on a consumption rate. So in the example I have 10000 tonnes
of material that I need to reduce to 0. The rate of consumption is set at
an amount per day therefor my duration is amount/rate. If I need to draw it
down faster I have to increase my rate or add extra resources to draw it
down but the amount remains constant?

Not sure if I am making sense... :-(

Shawn

To all

Please forgive this newby question but I have been trying for a while to
figure it out with little success.

I have an activity : lets say the activity is to move a pile of gravel.
The
pile is 10 tons and I can move 1 ton per day on average. How do I create
this activity in project where i can enter the tons and the resource to
move
the pile and it will give me a duration. The next activity after that one
is
another pile that is a different tonnage (say 12.6 tons).

The question is .. where do I put the tonnage into the activity? Is it a
material resource or something along those lines.. it is not very clear in
MS Project where you can place the amount within the activity?

AHGA!

Shawn
(e-mail address removed) (remove the remove to email to me.. thanks!)

the resource has to be defined as "Material" then:

On the View menu, click Gantt Chart.
In the Task Name field, select a task, and then click Task
Information .
Click the Resources tab.
In the Units field for the material resource you want, type or select
the number of units to be used on this assignment. Variable material
consumption (variable material consumption: The time-based quantity of
material resource to be used in an assignment. A variable consumption
indicates that the amount of material that is used changes if the task
duration or assignment length changes.) is expressed with the material
label, and you can specify a usage amount. For example, if the rate of
consumption is 40 yards per day, type 40/d.

look in help for "material"



meg99

 

[Steve House]

Project doesn't do this sort of calculation, I'm afraid. You can do it
yourself, of course, and manually update the actual and remamining duration
fields in the tracking table.

 

[shawn]

Steve

Thanks for the reply, that was the same conclusion I was coming too. It is
unfortunate because in some situations, meters and tonnes are my driving
factors and I make resource adjustments to reduce those. I will look into a
macro to calculate my duration from a custom field and then lock my duration
so project doesn't move anything.

Another question though, how will that affect my leveling, I still want to
level my resources so I can adjust my priorites to detemine my extraction
order (this is a mine site)

Shawn