We can set-up routes for each product. I would say create three routes with the times you have already mentioned. After that products with similar capacity time usage will have the same route.
Create an Operation let say “Capacity” and in the Route lines setup time on product basis. I hope it solves your issue
The user can continue to use the average of 200 if wished by defining this on the resource and never flexing the route, but this would be inaccurate. I am not sure what your issue here is, unless you did not know about the “Capacity” setting which converts it into time as per the post by Hammad.
Nothing for run time. You set the resource to plan by capacity. The resource isset at 200 per hour and you define a factor on the route step to flex this for each product.
Let assume I have 3 machines (M1, M2 & M3). All the capacity is set to 10,000, and the route factor is set to 1.
If I would produce 100,000 pcs of finished item, it requires 10 hours to run for a single job if i have only one machine available.
But now i have 3 machines available, which resources qty is set to 3 in the route, thus when i run the job scheduling, there will be 3 different jobs for 3 machines (M1, M2, M3), i would expect the hours should also divide by 3, which is 10/3 = 3.33 hours.
But for my testing, it still display as 10 hours for all the three jobs.
If this is true, then the machine capacity reservation is wrong.
How is the route configured? The operation is on a resource group with the resource requirements set to 3 for the single operation? The consumption calculation is capacity I presume as you mention your factor is 1? This is on the route not the resource. Seems like it is setup fine from your description. 3 machines each at 10,000 per hour, route set on the group, 3 required, but I cannot remember the logic here off teh top of my head, whether teh 3 means you always need 3 or not.
An operation requires resources from a resource group that consists of five resources. The process time for the operation is three hours, and the value in the Quantity field is 2. For operation scheduling, six hours are reserved for the resource group. For job scheduling, three hours are reserved for two different resources.
So the quantity will tell you that you need an hour on EACH resource. Therefore you need to use the factor on the route to divide the strokes by 3 to get the timings correct.