Machine capacity planning
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.. index:: Machine capacity planning

You can structure Machinery use by clicking the menu item
**Start > Outline > Structure** using the following criteria:

- Machine types -> Machine
- Machine types -> Project -> Machine 
- Project -> Machine types -> Machine 

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**Applications for the Machine capacity planning view:**

-  Display of the project's demand for machines in the project.
-  Calculation of the usage of every single machine.
-  Calculation of the total efforts and total costs of every single
   machine.
-  Visualisation of the machines allocation in activities.

**You can use the Machine capacity planning view for the following:**

-  Analyse the machine usage by means of filter settings.
-  Change the timescale.
-  Quick access to the resource pool.

**Context menu in the Machine capacity planning view**

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-  **Show maximum usage per unit of the time** – the maximum required number of
   machine resources for each of the roles / qualifications per day,
   week, etc.
-  **Show effort per unit of the time** – planned effort in machine hours (or
   machine days, respectively) per day, week, etc.

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            :alt: Capacity alignment machines
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