We are looking at using capability to help segregate three types of inspections. We are NOT using to schedule. Any suggestions on set up for that? It’s throwing me off because we wouldn’t have an operation standard.
We use capabilities to define which physical resources can be included as part of the capability. We don’t have operation standards in this case.
Here you can see our operation with the assigned capabilities.
I hope this helps!
the idea of capabilities allows you to group a list of resources into different groupings than their resource group. It might be easiest if i use the illustration:
Resource Group: 2 Axis Machines
- Machine 1 - 2 axis
- Machine 2 - 2 axis
Resource Group: 3 Axis Machines - Machine 3 - 3 axis
- Machine 4 - 3 axis
Resource Group: Drill Press - Machine 5 - Drill press
- Machine 6 - Drill press
Above we have a classic set of three resource groups, each having multiple machines… but as many of you know, a 3 axis machine is CAPABLE of doing two axis work… it may be more expensive but it is capabile. Also, a 2 axis and 3 axis machine is CAPABLE of acting as a drill press (although not normally done).
So, we can create some CAPABILITIES:
Capability 1 - Drill Holes:
- Machine 5 - Priority 1 - Prod Factor = 1, Setup Factor = 1
- Machine 6 - Priority 2 - Prod Factor = 1, Setup Factor = 1
- Machine 1 - Priority 3 - Prod Factor = 2, Setup Factor = 4
- Machine 2 - Priority 4 - Prod Factor = 2, Setup Factor = 4
- Machine 3 - Priority 5 - Prod Factor = 2, Setup Factor = 6
- Machine 4 - Priority 6 - Prod Factor = 2, Setup Factor = 6
Capability 2 - 2-axis Machining - Machine 1 - Priority 3 - Prod Factor = 1, Setup Factor = 1
- Machine 2 - Priority 4 - Prod Factor = 1, Setup Factor = 1
- Machine 3 - Priority 5 - Prod Factor = .9, Setup Factor = 1.1
- Machine 4 - Priority 6 - Prod Factor = .9, Setup Factor = 1.1
That is enough detail to show where we can go… note that for drilling holes, I put all 6 machines… i also specified that it takes 2 times longer to drill holes on the multi-axis machines (due to load time)… also setup is much longer.
But for 2 axis machining, all 4 CNC machines can do the work… and the 3 axis machines are faster to use, but slower to setup.
All of this is designed for Scheduling purposes. if you have a job that is going to take 100 hours, but the scheduler selects Machine 4 to do 2 axis work, it will reduce the time to 90 hours on the schedule.
To actually use this, instead of specifying a RESOURCE or a RESOURCE GROUP on your operation, you point to a CAPABILITY instead. Then when scheduling, it will choose the first available resource within the capability, and then schedule appropriatly.
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Can you elaborate a bit further? Does the type of inspection define who does it or where? If not, you might just want three different operations instead of capabilities.