Extremely trivial example: Drill Press time 5 minutes - consumes D kwh of electricity. Leads to: CNC machine time 60 minutes - consumes C kwh of electricity. Leads to: Anealing oven time 30 minutes - Consumes A kwh of eletricity.
I'd like to feed the app resources, characteristics of those resources, and then plug in production figures over a time period and have it tell me how many Drill Presses, etc I need to get that production, how much energy is consumed to add to cost of goods, etc.
Largely this is a complex scheduling problem. The app should also highlight resource shortages to say that certain things are impossible due to not enough whatever, and lay out a time line for when things need to happen.
Any one know what this might be called, and where I might find such an app?
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