Published September 17, 2026.
Production bottleneck: how to find it, and what to do about it
How to find the one work center that limits your output from load against capacity, and five ways to relieve it, in the right order.
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Production planning blog
Practical guides for the people who decide what runs on which machine, and when. Every article works through real arithmetic you can repeat on your own plant.
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Published September 17, 2026.
How to calculate machine capacity, step by step
Available hours, efficiency, load and utilisation, with a worked example for a two shift mill and the formulas in one place.
Published September 17, 2026.
Job sequencing rules: which job goes first, and why it matters
Earliest due date, shortest processing time and customer priority compared on five jobs you can check by hand.
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Try the ideas on a real week of orders
The demo on the home page runs a finite capacity schedule in your browser. Change the rule, switch off a machine, and see what moves.