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    Balancing Machine to a Target Percentage

    Im trying to balance Machine Center A to a target percentage based on the total uptime hours. So I have pounds and tph to calculate the hours required and if my hours required are over the target percentage I manually adjust the loading in column K and L to the other machine in the highlighted cells. What I'd like to happen is create a if statement that says if greater than 75% subtract .01 until target is met, else add .01. My problem is I keep getting a circular reference. Hopefully I can get some help with this loading.
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    Re: Balancing Machine to a Target Percentage

    If you want to remove the circular reference, take away the formulas in column M. Then you can add your 0.01 increments manually.

    I set the program up in solver. I kept all your formulas (with the exception of Column M). I set solver up to compute Cell D7 to be 0.75 based on varying cells M10:M15. To keep your restriction of doing it in 0.01 increments, I put a restraint on these cells to restrict them to integer values. So that made the formula in Column K =1-M10/100.

    It took about 30 seconds to run. With solver you get a best solution. There may be other best solutions. Solver stops when it reaches its objective.
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