It is important to plan which capacities are to make up the total capacity when setting up the machine centres and work centres.
If different machine centres (such as 210 Packing table 1, 310 Painting Cabin ...) are assigned to a work centre, the consideration of the single capacities of the machine centres is significant because failure of one machine centre can interrupt the entire process. The machine groups can be entered according to their capacity but may not be included in the planning. By deactivating the Consolidated Calendar field only the capacity of the work centre but not the machine centre is assigned in the planning.
If, however, identical machine centres (such as 210 Packing table 1 and 220 Packing table 2) are combined in a work centre, the consideration of the work centre as a sum of the assigned machine centres is of interest. Therefore, the work centre would be listed with zero capacity. By activating the Consolidated Calendar field, the common capacity is assigned to the work centre.
If capacities of work centres are to make no contribution to the total capacity, you can achieve this with efficiency = 0.