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Hi All,

I have the following case: A company produces adhesive tapes. At the last stage there is a group of 12 cutting machines (I assume a Resource Group called Cutting). Each one of the cutting machines I assume it is a resource. Each product (and there is a couple of thousand of such products) may have more than one possible cutting machines that may use (different routings).

E.g Product A001 can be cut either in cutting machine A1 (5m/min) or A2(7m/min) or in A7 (2m/min) or in a combination of these machines (in this case there is a time for transferring cutting from e.g. A1 to A2 (30 min).

Another Product A002 can be cut either in cutting machine A1 or A3 or A7 or in combination of these machines.

The question is: Can AX suggest planned orders in order to better utilize resources (cutting machines) by avoiding overcapacity in specific resources (cutting machines) and minimize lead-times? (The scenario is 'Make to Order' not 'Make to Stock')

BR,

Michalis

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Weaveriski 23,620 Moderator on at

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"Better utilise resources" how? You are MTO with set delivery dates so these will ultimately drive the orders. If the cutting machines are a capacity bottleneck then look at finite controlling them as individual resources within the group and seeing how this pans out from your utilisation perspective.

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Hi Steven,

it is a little bit more complicated. You have not just one possible resource to use on cutting.

The question is: based upon planned orders (for different products) that use the same set of cutting machines which planned order should use which cutting machine (in order to have better utilization rate of cutting machines and less lead time)?

E.g. a specific product can use cutting machine (resource) 1 or cutting machine 2 or cutting machine 3. Based on the Planning which of the above cutting machine AX will suggest?

BR,

Michalis

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Fredrik Sætre 12,644 on at

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Try using dynamic planning and not restrict it to one group or resource.

Check out these:

[View:https://dyntips.com/2015/05/15/production-planning-with-multiple-resources-dynamic-resource-management/]

[View:https://dyntips.com/2015/05/14/capabilities-setup-2/]

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I did not say just one resource, use a group and let planning pick the actual resource from the group. Not sure dynamic works for you as it seems to be a machine from a group per production order.

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A001 can use A1, A3 or A7

A002 can use A1, A2 or A7

If all are in one group with no other limitation A001 could end up booked at A2 and A002 could be booked on A3.

If you do not want that then you would need additional resource limitations.

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Hi Fredrik,

this is the basic requirement. I ll test it.

Thanks

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