I see. I'll be needing a capacity planning for a POC so I guess I'll just
have to make a patch for this. Thanks Jacopo for the info. 

Cheers


Jacopo Cappellato-3 wrote:
> 
> Right now there is no support for finite capacity planning (OFBiz  
> implements the infinite capacity planning).
> I don't remember what TechDataServices.capacityRemaining()  is  
> supposed to do but:
> 
> 1) that method is very old and I suspect it is not really used; it  
> will probably need some work before being used
> 2) the method probably returns 9ar was designed to return) the  
> available capacity expressed in milliseconds.
> 
> Jacopo
> 
> On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:29 AM, rnatavio wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi.
>> Questions:
>> 1)Is there a way I can check the remaining capacity that a facility  
>> (or
>> machine/fixed asset) can accommodate for a given time?
>>
>> 2)What does TechDataServices.capacityRemaining() do exactly?
>>
>> Scenario:
>> I tried to set the production CAPACITY for the DemoMachine, then I  
>> created a
>> production run (PRun1) with  QUANTITY = production capacity of the
>> DemoMachine. Then I created another production run (PRun2), where the
>> estimated start time of PRun2 should be LATER than the estimated end  
>> time of
>> PRun1, since PRun1 already used up all the number of productions that
>> DemoMachine can accommodate. Unfortunately, things didn't turn out as
>> expected.
>>
>> While looking for a workaround, I found this service in
>> TechDataServices.capacityRemaining(),
>> which I thought would return a quantity that the DemoMachine can still
>> accommodate on a given time period. But the value it returned was  
>> several
>> thousand times more than what I've set as the DemoMachine's capacity.
>>
>> Please enlighten me.
>>
>> Roy
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