VARCHART XGantt - Resource Scheduling
The Resource Scheduling module of VARCHART XGantt supports the conception of interactive decision making. It unifies both, generating schedules automatically after pre-defined strategies and taking individual constraints into account. The latter can be edited interactively and graphically in the Gantt chart; there is no need to define complicated rules in advance. Recalculations continuously include the individual settings. If, for example, problems occur due to failures or breakdowns and changes become necessary, different scenarios can be tried and their impact on delivery dates can be tested. Complying with binding delivery dates requires knowledge on the workload of a resource already in preliminary stages.
Interactive decision making combines human skills and computer abilities to find the appropriate balance of customer fulfilment and of optimized and consistent workload for your resources. A fast perception of conflicts in a schedule enables the planning staff to handle situations flexibly, even those for which the system does not provide precise solutions.
There is a smooth transition from manual to automatic scheduling, depending on the requirements of the situation. It increases the stability of schedules and provides flexibility where required by the planning staff.
This animated picture shows different settings for the scheduling procedure: The job quantity is increased, which leads to an extension of the processing time, which can be counteracted by an increase of of the resource capacity.
This animated picture shows how the tasks behave when the planning strategies "As Soon As Possible" or, alternatively "Just In Time" apply with the capacity of the resources varying. The larger the capacity of the resources, the more jobs can be scheduled simultaneously. The lower the capacity of the resources, the more jobs are put in a chronological sequence.
This animated picture shows how two resources are assigned to a job (job 1 uses resource A and resource B). A breakdown of resource B causes the jobs to be re-scheduled.
PDF Files for Download
A description of the resource scheduling features and a tutorial are available as PDF files here. The tutorial contains a link to download the program sample:
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