Project-specific machinery Usage

Applications for the view Project-specific machinery Usage:

• Assign selected activities to a machine.
• Display of the portfolio's demand for machines per project.
• Display of the project's demand for machines.
• Calculation of the load of every single machine.
• Calculation of the total efforts for and total costs of every single machine.
• Visualisation of the allocation of machines in activities.

You can use the view Project-specific machinery Usagefor the following:

• Analyse the load of a machine by help of filter settings.
• Change the timescale.
• Quick access to the resource pool.

Context menu in the view Project-specific machinery Usage

If you open the context menu on the Machinery row, the following commands appear:

• Expand/collapse all resources – Depending on the preferred view, you can expand/collapse all resources.
• Show maximum per time unit – The maximum required number of machine resources for each of the machine groups - machine types per day, week, etc.
• Show average per time unit – The average required number of machine resources per day, week, etc.
• Show effort per time unit – Planned effort in machine hours (or machine days, respectively) per day, week, etc.
• Group by machines – Presents the machine types belonging to a machine group in one row with total load.
• Place activities in one row, if possible - Displays the activities entered for a machine in one row, if possible.
  For better presentation, activities overlapping in time are shown in separate rows.
• Display in reference to subprojects - The loads of machines is not shown for the overall project, but for each of the subprojects separately. However, only those subprojects are considered that are on the level immediately below the overall project.
• Sort machines – All displayed machines can be sorted along number, name or code.
• Sort activities – All displayed activities can be sorted along number, start date and finish date.
• Unhide total load - Total load for all machines in the project per day, week, etc.
• Additional resource diagram – You can view an additional resource diagram in the lower area of the window Machinery.
• Additional break-even chart – You can view an additional break-even chart in the lower area of the window Machinery.

If you open the context menu on the Activity row, the following commands appear:

• Use commonly - The selected activity shares the machine with other activities.
• Use exclusively - The selected activity uses the machine exclusively.