Hi,
Thanks for your reply.

I'm sure MSP can handle a large amount of tasks.
But I'm searching for a solution/tool for production planning.
I need to plan production for over 1,5 year timespan.
Actually I need to plan a large amount of "mini-projects" all consisting of the same steps.

And the clue is, to read easilly when a "mini-project" or "order" is going to be late or to soon.

The way I do it now is to plan the bottleneck of the productionproces in an excel.
I've got a capacitiy, and.. lets say I make a large sum of al the orders, and next to the orders I can see dates that ar linked with the sum. (cryptic descryption I know.. sorry for that).
It makes me see very easily when an order is planned and coming in time or not.
Also I can print this table as an understandable and readable view for my colleagues in production.

But now I'm looking for an easy way to bring all of the production-steps in to chart.
I mean the capacity of the different work-posts (resources). Thats my goal.
But It must stay userfriendly...

- I need to see very quickly when an order is planned to late or to early.
- I need to adjust very quickly and user friendly the placement in time for an order.
(it shifts weekly)
- I need to close down very easily orders.
- I need to create very easy-to-understand overviews of dates en orders.
...

And from what I've been reading is that is MSP is good for single-projects..
But I'm thus asking myself (and this forum) if it is suitable for production planning.
(if it does.. then I'm going to use it also for the installation of the produced goods.. I'm in interiour building busyness).

For education.
I've downloaded the book "MS Project 2013 the missing manual".
But its such a large book... so I'm going to spend a lot of time if I want to read it.
And if its not worth it.. then I rather won't read it.
But something in my guts tells me that I can do something with MSP, but I'm not sure.
Do you think "MS Project 2013 the missing manual" is a good book?

For your mentioning of contacting an experienced planner...
I don't know any.. .
Thats why I post this forum.. hoping to find some guidance .
Also.. I do this fully on my own in free time.. because I cannot convince my boss to follow an expensive course of a software even I haven't got fully trust in..

So... you think MSP is suitable for a large amount of "orders" to create very user friendly:
- capacity views over a time span of 1,5 year?
- Is it user friendly to easily add... delete orders?
- Is it user friendly to easily replace orders in time?
- It it user friendly to easily print to-do list-overviews for one week / one month / one year?
- ... I'm having a hard time reading the capacity of the different production-steps.
I know its possible in resource-usage-view.. but I'm finding it such a complex view... Maybe you know it is possible to create your own views where you can compile just what you want to see?
I've tried and experimented with it but... I can't seem to make it work.. and I'm asking myself.. is it worth to keep digging in this program? Or maybe MSP is just not the right software for this kind of "production planning"?

Maybe I just need to expand my excel a little bit.
All I want is to bring the capacity of the allocation of the different resources (production-steps/workposts) in to chart. But this in a timespan of 1,5 year.
And it all must stay easy to adjust-read-input...

Thanks again for your reply.
My apologies for bad English (I'm not English ).
I hope you can give me some replies to my questions.

Thanks in advance!
Wocky