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What you are describing is a scheduling problem. It is not that difficult to solve using standard CP techniques. Create an Nx168 matrix of natural numbers for each room containing N machines, where each column represents the activity for a machine for a week. Constrain the sum of the rows to <= 1. Constrain the sum of the columns to <= 100. CP is all about "tricks" like these and takes a while to get used to. I can recommend the Python interface to OR-tools which I found very easy to work with.



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