Forklift Hours

[CQ]

How do I put into the schedule the number of hours that I have available for
a piece of equipment - like a forklift. I understand that "material" type of
resource exists but this is a little different in that it isn't consumable.
It has to be a set number of hours available per day - regardless if 1
Forklift driver or 30 are available - the forklift itself isn't available any
more (or less) hours per day. Also, this is something I want to track in
hours so that I can lump it in with other, human, resources. How can I track
the number of hours that it is available?

 

[RickD]

Why don't you define it as an Project Server Resource and set the calendar to
the number of hours per day?

 

[John Sitka]

CQ,

you will then need to assign someone as the reporting agent to each piece of equipment.

Example: If the forklift had been booked for 8 hours but in fact it is returned to the pool after just 2 hours.
The agent would log in to PWA, (after log out if they are presently log in under a domain account)
and enter
user name: forklift1
password: 12345678
then record 2 hours actual work and 0 remaining work against the original 8 hours work (which would immediately revise itself 2
hours).

This pattern would need to be repeated for every piece of machinery.