Capacity planning · The capacity model · Element

The resources

Each resource with its practical output per period.

The part

What it is

Resources include people and systems as well as equipment, and the constraint is frequently one of the first two.

Practical output should be measured rather than specified, since the two diverge in every real facility.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.