Use dax to populate machine manufacturing capacity

hassan_d — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 07:22:14 GMT

Hello,

I am looking to use the capacity of machines 1,2 and 3 in the most efficient way possible to prepare the orders of products a,b,c,d and e.

Only a certain type of products can be manufactured in each machine.

Can anybody suggest how to achieve this with dax, either:

Populate each machine in the optimal way to their maximum capacity - when orders exceed capacity, the exceeding orders should be distributed as equally as possible among all machines that can manufacture those products.
or, let the user select which product they want to make in each machine - once a product has been selected and is being made in a certain machine, it should not appear as an option in the other machines.

Thanks.

Re: Use dax to populate machine manufacturing capacity

lbendlin — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 12:49:52 GMT

Power Query can do some of this with List.Accumulate, but DAX is conceptually unable to do this.

Power BI has no memory, and no concept of global variables (or variables at all- What Power BI calls "variables" are in fact all constants).

You will likely need to do that work in the upstream system.