Machinery usage
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.. index:: Machinery use

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

- Machine -> Project
- Project -> Machine

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**Applications for the Machinery Usage view:**

-  Display of the project's demand for machines in the project.
-  Ressource allocation from the perspective of machines.
-  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 Machinery Usage view for the following:**

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

**Context menu in the Machinery Usage view**

If you open the context menu in the **Machine row**, the following
commands appear:

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

If you open the context menu in the **Activity row**, the following
commands are available:

-  **Share** - the selected activity shares the machine together with
   other activities.
-  **Use exclusively** - the selected activity uses the machine
   exclusively.

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