I'm doing a rough capacity plan for a manufacturing unit in MS Project 2010.
In short: I want to average out the load of a set of tasks over an estimated time (duration) to get a rough view of the load for the period.
Scenario: Manufacturing of one component involves task1 and task2, performed in sequence. Task1: 8 hours=1 day, task2: 16 hours=2 days.
Target: Set the duration of each task to the sum of the original durations and run them in parallel, i.e. duration of task1 and task2 = 3 days, work to be kept constant, changing the units to accomodate the change in duration.
I've written a macro setting tsk.Duration=[sum of all separate durations] but since Duration doesn't take resource calendars into consideration it will produce unwanted results when task1 is done in one shift and task2 in two shifts (Duration deriving its results from the calendar set in Options>Schedule).
Any help that would put me in the right direction is greatly appreciated!