Scheduling across shifts

[JakeM (Jake Morrill)]

@Jobs Processed Over Multiple Shifts in MES/Data Collection

When creating a method, the scheduling blocks need to be set based on the total run time of the operation. If the shifts are 8 hours long and the operation will take 40 hours, the scheduling blocks should be set to 5.

Both the machine resource and employee resource need to be added as scheduling resources for the operation. An operation on 1 machine across two shifts would need two resources: the machine and the employee RG

Thanks for the information a lot to read over and mull over. A question regarding scheduling blocks. In your example you state an 8 hour shift with 40 hour operation requires 5 scheduling blocks. This makes sense. However, I dont need the operation to finish in a single shift which is what I believe this set up is doing? Secondly, would this not tie up all my resources to a single job/op for the full shift? It is likely I will have multiple jobs running concurrently at different stages of completion. Would this prevent these other jobs from being scheduled as all my resources are tied up in the 5 cheduling blocks?