Handle resources in Aras Project Management possible?

Hi, We have Parts/Products in the PLM, that require additional testing until the product is ready for production. We currently evaluate, what´s the best way to organize these tests. The Aras Project Management feature might be a suitable solution, as it can easily be used to schedule and define certain Activities. In our case, some of the Activities require additional resources to be completed. These can be special measurement equipment or personal to handle the tests. Some of these resources are limited and can not be used more than once at the same time (e.g. heat chamber). I have to admit, that resource planning may not be something, that is typically done by a PLM system. But in our case it would be a helpful feature, as people don´t have to leave the PLM environment for creating and planning new products. Managing tests in the PLM would also help to insure the traceability back to the requirements that are used as basis for the test plans. Is it currently possible to do some basic resource planning in the current Project Management release? Or are there any other options in Aras available that can be used for this task? Thanks again! Angela
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  • Hi Angela, To the best of my knowledge, the resource management capabilities you're looking for are not supported by any standard application in Aras Innovator. We don't have any samples or community projects that cover this kind of behavior, but it would be possible to either extend the Project Management application to support this or to create a custom solution to handle this kind of resource management. The biggest obstacle I can see is your requirement for limited resources, but you can likely get around this by writing some custom logic in an onBeforeAdd/onBeforeUpdate server event. Chris
    Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer
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  • Hi Angela, To the best of my knowledge, the resource management capabilities you're looking for are not supported by any standard application in Aras Innovator. We don't have any samples or community projects that cover this kind of behavior, but it would be possible to either extend the Project Management application to support this or to create a custom solution to handle this kind of resource management. The biggest obstacle I can see is your requirement for limited resources, but you can likely get around this by writing some custom logic in an onBeforeAdd/onBeforeUpdate server event. Chris
    Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer
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