Balance Operations on Resources

In this step, you will balance operations on resources using the Resource Balancing command.

  1. To have an overview of how the operations are balanced on the resources, from the Authoring section of the action bar, click Resource Balancing , then click the workers' Manufacturing Cell.
    The work load is not evenly balanced among the workers.
  2. Close the Resource Balancing panel.
  3. Control-click Worker 1 and 2, then click Resource Balancing again.
  4. In the Resource Balancing panel of Worker 1: select operations at the top of the column and drag them on Worker 2 Resource Balancing panel, at the bottom of the column.

    Note: In the columns, the order of operations starts from the bottom.

  5. To display more detail about the operations and resource balancing, from the Authoring section of the action bar, click Resource Utilization Gantt and click the workers' Manufacturing Cell.

    Tip: If the operations are not chronologically ordered in the Gantt Chart, select the Sort rows according to their begin times option in Me > Preferences > App Preferences > Simulation > Digital Manufacturing Apps Common Services > Manufacturing Planning Apps Common Services > Gantt Common.

The operations are now balanced on the resources.

Next step: Define Operation Positions.