Does Timefold support automatic splitting of planning entities during solving?

[wind-0612]

Using the food-packaging model as an example, suppose a set of jobs and lines is provided. One job cannot be completed by its latest end time under normal planning, no matter how it is scheduled. However, if this job is split into two parts and assigned to two different lines, it can meet the latest time constraint. Since it’s only possible to determine whether splitting is necessary during the planning process, and the job cannot be pre-split into two tasks, I’d like to know if Timefold can automatically split a single job into two jobs in such a scenario.

[triceo]

Hello @wind-0612!

For the time being, I don't see a way. IMO it makes sense to model the problem as a series of jobs which are already the smallest possible unit, further indivisible. You can design the problem such that jobs in a particular job group have their start/end times synchronized.

[wind-0612]

Alright, thanks for the response. I'll think about other ways to pre-split the jobs.