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    Scheduling production orders - College Project

    Hello everyone!

    I'm new to the Microsoft Excel. I hope I can explain my problem in the easiest way. I'm doing a college project.

    In my attachment you can see 2 tables that represent the weekly production orders in a filling production line. In the first column I have the quantity of products that are needed. The second column is the description of the product to be produce. In the third column I have the quantity of hours that are needed to produce the product (eg. 3,843 = 3 hours and 51 minutes). Then I have the begging hour and data of the production and the end. The remaining hours are for doing the changes to produce the different products. The production line is scheduled in 2 shifts of 8 hours with a 30 minutes breaks. From 07:00 to 15:30 and 15:30 to 00:00.

    What I need to do in the second table is to determine what is the quantity of products that I need to produce each day. I now how I can do it in a "manual way" but I don't know how I can write, systematize and standardize this in Microsoft Excel.

    I hope I have explained my problem well.

    Can you help me please?

    Thanks a lot!

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    Joćo
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    Re: Scheduling production orders - College Project

    I won't do the work for you but I will tell you how to do it.

    The first two commands you need to know are MATCH, which finds the first occurrence of an item on a list and INDEX which locates an item in a table. In this case your table is cells $B$3:$H$10.

    The syntax for MATCH is =MATCH(Find this value, In this range, 0) - read up on what the 1 and -1 flags can do for you as well although you won't need them in this problem. MATCH with the zero option will give the error message #N/A! if the item looked for is not on the list looked in.

    The syntax for INDEX is = INDEX (In this range give me the intersection of, this row, this column).

    You can use MATCH to find the line the product is on. Use INDEX to get the quantity and the initial and final date. Use If to compare dates for the column.

    Do not be afraid to use helper columns if you need them. They will help you debug issues.
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