Fhm42,
You said, "Whenever there is a change, we must completely rebuild the schedule from scratch." I am just curious to know how much effort and time are involved in rescheduling.
If you want a good software tool for just electronic display of schedules that your software regularly...
If you have to schedule multiple, concurrent projects which share many common resources (of finite capacity), you may look at the software Schedlyzer Lite ( http://optisol.biz/multi_project_scheduling.htm ). Any software based on Critical Path Method (CPM) is not really very efficient in such...
Project may be useful to you to some extent. I cannot firmly say how much useful it will be without knowing your system sufficiently. If it does not satisfactorily meet your scheduling requirements, you may be interested to develop an Excel application which may take at least 2 weeks of your...
This is a belated response to your inquiry. If you are still in need of a suitable software for your requirement, you may consider a shop floor scheduling tool, Schedlyzer Lite ( http://www.optisol.biz/Excel_based_scheduling.htm ). It is a powerful tool for scheduling a variety of operations on...
Broseke, you may also consider the scheduling software, Schedlyzer Lite from Optisol. It is claimed to be very powerful when multiple projects have to share limited capacity resources.
Shop Planner
ZWG,
ERP selection is a laborious and time consuming process. It also involves some risk of selecting a less appropriate package. Some people seek opinions of various ERP packages from members of a large forum,
http://erp.ittoolbox.com/groups/vendor-selection/erp-select/ .
You may inquire...
ZWG,
You may also look at shop management software like E2, JobBoss, M1, Global Shop Solutions, Henning Software, Visual Jobshop, etc. These ERP packages are very appropriate for small job shops with respect to cost and functionality. If you also need a strong production scheduling module, you...
Hi Drew,
I understand that you are dealing with resource-constrained scheduling of multiple projects that share many common resources. When you want to move away from Excel for this kind of scheduling, do you consider MS Project as the best alternative? All popular project management tools are...
Pulpeng, if downtime is so expensive, you may consider using best-of-breed scheduling tools which produce more realistic schedules with meaningful, automatic resource leveling. You may keep one or two powerful scheduling tools as alternatives to MS Project when resource-constrained scheduling...
Brian,
If you closely see live demos of certain tools involving realistic data, you might find some features (including charts) that are superior to Project features in many respects. From resource-leveled scheduling point of view, I never compare Project to those tools.
I understand that you are simultaneously managing multiple projects that compete for shared resources. The resource allocation across multiple projects has a major impact on progress rates and completion times of projects as well as resource utilization levels. Most of the project management...
Herman,
Let Nxx, Noo and Nxo represent the number of pairs XX, the number of pairs OO and the number of pairs XO, respectively. Then, the three numbers are random but their sum is always 50.
The range for Nxx is (20, 35).
The range for Noo is (0, 15).
The range for Nx0 is (0, 30)...
JK,
You have not got any response to your inquiry about scheduling of about 4,000 tasks with automatic resource leveling in MS Project. It is not easy to manually perform resource leveling for such a large project whenever the schedule is to be updated. There may not be dependable, automated...
Bensmit,
There are numerous project management software with different levels of functionality, efficiency and cost. You need to make a trade-off among among those attributes.
You said you have been managing small projects with up to 5 resources extending over a maximum of six months. But...
