ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the issues, techniques, and tools for resource management in industrial projects. It presents both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of resource management in manufacturing and automation projects. The chapter provides a discussion on resource allocation in project networks, resource sharing, human resource management, resource work rate analysis, takt time, critical-resource diagramming, and probabilistic resource utilization analysis. Project planning, in general, determines the nature of actions and responsibilities needed to achieve the project goal. Basic critical path method and program evaluation review technique approaches both assume theoretically unlimited resource availability in project network analysis. Resource profiling involves the development of graphical representations to convey information about resource availability and assignment. Resource leveling refers to the process of reducing the period-to-period fluctuation in a resource-loading graph. If resource fluctuations are beyond acceptable limits, actions can be taken to move activities or resources around in order to level out the resource-loading graph.
