Resource Shift Plan

In reality you often face the "problem", that resources do not work 24 hours a day, especially humans are prone to this fact. Therefore you need a feature that allows you to model a resources working time. We offer you a shift editor, in which you can set every resource’s labor time for each day of the week.

Approach

  • Open an Organization Diagram (e. g. the one from Model 13)

  • Click on any resource

  • Make sure you have selected Simulation from IYOPRO’s property set

  • Now select the Simulation tab from IYOPRO’s top menu bar

  • You should see the Shift button as depicted in Figure 1

  • Click on it

Model 13 shift layout
Figure 1. Location of shift editor button

  • The Shift Editor appears

  • Here you can set the labor time of each resource, that is contained in the organization diagram

  • You can the start and end time of the resources working time for each day of the week

  • In the drop-down-box below the string "Shifts for Dave" we offer you some preset shifts like

    • Full week: The resource works 24 h each day of the week (see Figure 2)

    • 30 hour week with a lunch break: The resource works 30 hours a week and also has a lunch break of 1 hour included

      • You can interrupt a day’s working time for a break like depicted in Figure 3.

      • Or you can model night shifts, which start at 10 PM and stop at 6 AM next day.

      • Use the Plus (+) and Minus (-) buttons to achieve this

Model 13 shift editor1
Figure 2. Shift editor for resources (Full Week preset)
Model 13 shift 30hs
Figure 3. Shift editor for resources (30 hours with lunch break preset)