Production Resource Management

Providing resource definitions
- Which resources do exist?
- How are they described and named?
- Unique names available?
- For which products (assignment)?
- Which parameters need to be defined for resources?
- Who does maintain these resources?
- In which system are they maintained?
- Are interfaces necessary?
- How does the transfer take place?
- Who does receive the information regarding resource definitions?
- Are there often changes to the resource definitions?

Providing information on resource capability
- Which production capacity is possible on the resource (how much, size, content)?
- Who is provided with this information?
- In which system are they maintained?
- Are interfaces necessary?
- How does the transfer take place?

Ensuring that requests are initiated
- What does a typical request look like?''
- How is the communication organized?''
- Who does initiate the requests?
- What is the content of the request?
- Who does confirm the request?

Ensuring that equipment is available
- How is it ensured that necessary equipment is available (time, amount and location)?
- Who does define the required equipment (system)?
- How is the status of availability derived (automatically)?
Providing information on the location of resources
- Which movable resources do exist?)
- How is the location derived and registered (systems)?
- Who does need this information and when is this information needed?
- How is this information provided (visualization, system)?

Coordinating the management of resources
- Who does take the decisions (responsibilities, accountability)?
- Which decision criteria do exist?
- Is it possible to plan these decisions or can they be taken rather adhoc and intuitively?
- How is the decision technically supported (system)?
- Is there a need to document the decisions taken? If yes, how?

Collecting information on current state of resources
- Which current states of resources need to be recorded and registered? (e.g. inventory, state of equipment, availability of personnel, etc.)
- Who does define which current states of resources and which need to be collected?

Maintaining personnel qualification test result information
- Which specific qualifications are needed?
- Which persons should be qualified according to these requirements?
- Should there be an up-front notification in case of expiration of qualifications?
- Are specific qualifications to be considered for the set-up of shifts?

Maintaining equipment capability test result information
- Should equipment capability test results be maintained?
- Is an up-front notification required before certain qualification certificates expire?

Managing reservations
- Should the reservation of equipments be maintained?
- How are multiple requests being processed?