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Resource Leveling
Rescheduling Resources – the
Leveling technique
• What is leveling?
– Distributing resources equitably across the
project
• Why level?
– Eliminate extraordinary demand for resources
– Improve Resource Productivity and Efficiency
– Predict material and equipment requirements
better
– Reduce cash shortages
Resource Leveling Caveats
• Solutions are not optimizations – they are
heuristic based
• Resource Leveling involves a lot of time
and effort
• Improvement in resource allocation is not
predictable
The Resource Histogram
10
7
6
Days
1 2 3 4 5
Minimum Moment Theorem
Given an area and an interval, the moment of the histogram around
the X-axis will be minimum when the histogram is a rectangle
10
8
7 7 7 7 7 7
6
4
H1 H2
Days
1 2 3 4 5 2 2 2 2 2
Day 1 2 3 4 5
Original 10 10 10 2 2
Resource
Sums
Shift -4 -4 0 4 4
Final 6 6 10 6 6
Resource
Sums