What is finite capacity scheduling?

The VAPS works with finite capacity scheduling

Finite capacity scheduling means to schedule with limited capacities:

• The  default assumption is to have a capacity of 1 per machine center, meaning that each machine can just work on one operation at a given point of time
• It makes sure that you do NEVER overload a machine center.
• Any change in the schedule leads to automatic recalculation of the entire schedule.
• This principle is also applied to complex routings:
  • serial
  • parallel
• Dependencies are taken into account:
  • dependencies between operations (of one production order)
  • dependencies between production orders (if made from reservations)