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New Robot (for forming parts): Add a new Operation with a Resource Group or add a new Resource Group to an Existing Forming Robot Operation?

  • 2 December 2021
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J

We have an existing Operation “Forming Robot”, with one Resource Group/Resource when we had purchase a Robot for forming dept.  

We just purchased another Robot for forming.  This is not replacing the existing forming robot and the type of parts we run in the original are not able to be run in the new robot.

With this information in mind, we were considering created a new Operation for the new Robot vs creating another Resource Group under the original Operation.  

We cannot think of a reason to do the later (adding a new resource group to existing Operation), as the two robots are not interchangeable.  

Is there an advantage to doing it one way vs the other?  

Thank you!

 

 

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B
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I would do both. Otherwise any scheduling, shop load or resource group reports will be combined and not much value.  If you don’t have separate operations you are relying on entry personal  to edit resource group correctly. Which they won’t it is not in convenient place.   job travelers will also be confusing with only one operation as to which machine jobs go to. simpler and cleaner to just make new everything and data steams will remain separate and correct..

S

I agree, only pool the resources to a group if the resources are interchangeable, and if this is the way you schedule the resources. Having pooled resources allows the scheduling engine to allocate and load balance automatically, but it relies on the fact that the operation with a pooled resource can actually be allocated to the pool resources. Otherwise, there is no point in pooling them and each resource will have it’s own dedicated operation.

Shawn Fitzpatrick President, Partner, Lead Consultant TeccWeb Waterloo, ON 905-637-9255 x 101

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