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Hi,
My programme consists of huge excavation / area grading work for which we are going to use 6 excavators. We have divided the whole area in 6 parts and excavation gonna start in all the areas at same time, hence consurrent work. So in the programme I have to assign resources to these activities. So among the following which is the best practice:
1) create and assign a generic resource called Excavator to all the concurret activities which will show overallocation of resources
2) create resources Excavator 1, Excavator 2 , Excavator 3......, Excavator 6 and assign to relevant activity which will not show overallocation.
Please recommend which one shall be used.
Thanks.
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then just turn the over allocation bar off
I don't understand your problem.
You can enter the number of available excavators and level your schedule.
Our client doesn't want to see overallocated resources in the programme. So that's why I wanted to know the standard practice in the industry, wheather it is common to show overallocated resources in the programme or not.
I would choose #1 not only to show the over utilization but to know when you can remove one or more of the excavators off site. Paying for rental or being idel on a project is a wste of money. Send that unused excavator off site to another project to stop the charges.
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