Multiple Resources Scheduled Simultaneously Unlike other schedulers that assign resources to a time slot, the Fast system schedules activities that may require many different resources simultaneously.  The system finds the time intervals when all required resources are available and shows those times to the scheduler.  Here are a few examples:  Suppose you are scheduling people and there is a task or meeting that requires three people.  The system looks at the availabilitiy of the three people and finds all the times when those three people are simultaneously available.  Then the scheduler (a person if the scheduling is being done manually, or decision logic if the[...]

New Capabilities See how we’ve made the FAST scheduler even more flexible by allowing you to build your own objective function! Here are a few examples: Lets say you are a manufacturer and want to build a “Just-in-Time” schedule.  You can cause the scheduler to build a schedule from a target time backwards so that your job finishes at the target date.  Or suppose you are building a sports schedule and want all the teams to play each other only once.  You can specify an objective that picks different combinations of resources (teams) for each activity (game).  Or perhaps you[...]