Monica,

I did throughput planning using MS Project & MS Excel for one of our
projects.  If you don't already have Project a student ID can get you the
'Educational Discounted' version at a local university.  That's how I bought
it at my last job.  :-)

Hans

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Hans M. Hinners
Materials (& Process!) Engineer
Warner Robins - Air Logistics Center/Avionics Production Division
Manufacturing Branch (LYPME)
380 Second Street, Suite 104    (Building 640)
Robins AFB, GA  31098-1638
912-926-1970 (Voice) 468 - 1970 (DSN)  912-926-7164 (Fax)
mailto:[log in to unmask]


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monica Mihai [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 03:47
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [TN] Capacity Planning Tools.
>
> Hello Technet,
>
> I have a question for all manufacturing groups. I am looking at developing
> a capacity planning tool with the following functionality:
>
> *     Evaluate capacity by process given a forecasted production plan,
> product routings, cycle times, etc.;
> *     Prioritize work and assign specific product routings based on lead
> times to customers (i.e. due dates), batch sizes (volumes), etc.;
> *     Calculate machine utilization;
> *     Ability to do "what-if" scenarios. Some examples of such scenarios
> would be evaluating whether we have the capacity on each process/machine
> to build a new customer demand, how we can maximize resource utilization
> or how process improvements affect the overall capacity.
>
>
> Note that I am not looking for an end-to-end inventory/material planning
> system such as SAP or BAAN. I am more interested in evaluating whether our
> manufacturing processes have the capacity to run the forecasted load and
> what is the resulting utilization of our equipment.
>
> Any ideas on relatively inexpensive "off the shelf" systems that would
> accomplish these requirements? I would also be very interested in any
> suggestions of how this could be developed "in house" (what software would
> work best for this task?).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Monica Mihai.
>

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