Capacity & Scheduling
What has a finite amount of time in it, how much of it is already spoken for, and which machine does what at which hour.
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Workspace
Capacity Board
What every resource is being asked for against what it has, drawn as a bar per period with the available line across it. Where the bottleneck is, seen rather than argued about.
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Workspace
Scheduling Board
The Gantt. One board serves a work center, a factory line and a delivery vehicle, because the shape of the problem is identical and three near-identical boards would be three near-identical bugs.
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Records
Capacity Resources
Anything with a finite amount of time in it: a work center, a crew, a vehicle, a driver. One list for all of them, because a factory whose bottleneck is its delivery fleet is a real and common situation.
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Capacity Calendars
When a resource is actually available. Shifts, holidays, planned maintenance, a second crew on Saturday. One row per day, because the exception is the point.
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Capacity Load
What a plan asks of a resource in a period against what it has. The row a finite run reads before it dares to schedule anything into a period.
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Capacity Schedules
One board: this set of resources, over this window. A factory schedule, a work center schedule and a vehicle schedule are the same document with a different resource kind on it.
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