2nd Post - Task 'unit' properties (redux)

[A Nony Mouse]

Greetings all...

This is a clarified repost of a question I wrote up on here a week ago or
so...

Is there way to have Project manage what is essentially a manufacturing
task? For example, I want to build a calendar for making some widgets in
one big production run based on incoming orders. To start with, my calendar
might look like this:

Get Orders =======
Build Widgets ========
(based on an estimated 500 widgets ordered)

The amount of time to 'Build Widgets', however, will depend on the total
number of widgets ordered... Can Project make a task that has a fixed
production/output? Ideally, once 'orders' are received, I'd like to be able
to change the number ordered and have Project slide the build time based on
the resources I've assigned... So:

Get Orders =======
Build 750 Wgdts =================

From there, assigning more resources (machinery, people) would shorten the
production cycle.

Appearantly, Primavera and some other PM systems can pull this off... But I
can't seem to figure it out in Project (which is all I have access to)...
Anyone have any clues?

Thanks, Brian
(who works in college admissions, not manuffacturing)

 

[Sean]

Work study?

Project can't do this on its own. You can, however, do
this by incorporating other applications from the Office
suite such as Microsoft Excel. Copy and paste links
(text) into Excel and back into Project at your leisure.

Hope this helps!