Johncliviger at aol.com
Johncliviger at aol.com
Sun May 22 10:18:24 CDT 2005
Hi Rocky Thank you for those comments. It put the problems much more clearly. How this job started was that a client of mine running a small manufacturing plant started using MS Project to schedule his production line and when there was spare capacity in production it seemed to work. But now demand has increased 30/40% so spare capacity has gone and bottlenecks are poping up. His immediate question is how many new staff do I need to meet demand and what is my maximum production capacity and how does that vary from planned Production capacity? I don't think that I can tinker with Project and give him the reports he wants. So I'm now looking at how to give him some good news on a temporary solution. Hence the question on capacity Planning. I may go the whole hog and suggest a piece of software designed for the job but not yet. Once again Rocky thank you for you comments John C