Production Scheduling Software

Before you sequence anything, see what the floor can actually absorb. The capacity timeline is built from observed cycle times, actual changeover durations, and real availability per asset. Scroll forward to find next week’s overload. Spot the standards that have drifted far enough to be worth fixing at the source — before they poison the next quote.

Move a job to another machine, resequence a queue, or bump a hot order to the front of the line — from a visual board built for how planners actually work. Every change publishes immediately to the floor. No republish step, no overnight batch, no email asking the supervisor to tell second shift.

Turn on auto-scheduling and let the platform sequence by due date across available capacity. Turn it off and drive it manually. Most teams start manual and add automation one machine group at a time — the schedule adapts to your process, not the reverse.

Role-based permissions decide who publishes changes. Give supervisors authority to reflow their own area in real time, keep the master sequence with planning, and know who changed what either way.

ShopPulse shows each operator their prioritized queue on a tablet at the machine: current job, next job, estimated start, parts against target, setup steps, tool life on active tools. Late orders flag in color. Operators running four machines get one ranked list instead of four dashboards — and nobody walks to the office to find out what’s next.

Automated production monitoring matches machine signals to the ERP work order and detects the setup-to-production transition on its own. See when the spindle started; the operator confirms with one tap. On palletized cells running twenty jobs unattended, the control tells the platform what’s running. Labor tickets, part counts, and scrap flow back to the ERP without double entry.

Real-time ETTC recalculates as parts come off the machine. A job running 12% under standard shows a new completion time within the cycle — and every downstream operation on that machine shifts with it. The schedule corrects itself instead of waiting for someone to close a work order.

Set the risk threshold and let the schedule watch itself. Work orders trending past their due date surface automatically, with enough runway to move them to open capacity instead of expediting after the customer calls. Supervisors see the exceptions, not the whole board.

The Production Order Dashboard renders every machine as a color-coded card: state, current work order and operation, run duration, parts against target, and next job queued. Full-screen it on a shop floor TV or filter to one machine group for a morning standup. Walk in and know where the day stands in five seconds.

The Schedule Attainment dashboard puts scheduled start and end times beside actual, work order by work order. Toggle day-level or hour-level. Track on-time starts and on-time completions as separate numbers, because a job that starts late and finishes on time still cost you something. Filter by date range, search by work order, and give the plant a benchmarkable KPI instead of an argument.