Hi guys,
I have just found this forum but I'm not sure is this the correct platform to ask such question. If it is, great! If it's not, I would appreciate it if someone would redirect me to the correct platform.
My problem:
I have 4 machines (Total 6) that perform a similar task and each of the machine has a similar life before they will be sent for maintenance. Let's say each machine will have to produce 35 items before sent for maintenance which will take 5 days before they can be re-used. And each day, they need to produce 6 items alltogether. When one machine goes for a maintenance, backup machine will be used to replace that until it produce 35 items which will be then sent for a maintenance too. One of the constraint is that the production cannot be interrupted i.e. the machines cannot be sent for maintenance at the same time, only 1 at a time, hence usually one or two machines will be pushed to produce more items.
I have been doing this scheduling manually: drafting no of items for each machine day by day format and this takes time. I wonder if there's an algorithm or a faster method to do this?
Thanks in advance guys!