Shop floor scheduling software your operators actually use
A schedule that stays in the office does not run the plant. ProductionPlanning.ai sends the schedule to the floor as a simple queue for each work center, and the floor sends progress back, job by job.
Factory scheduling software, one queue per work center
Each work center sees only what it needs for the shift: the jobs in the order the schedule chose, with order number, product, quantity, setup notes and the time each job should take.
- Queue per work center for the current and the next shift
- On a screen at the machine, a tablet or a phone
- Large type and large buttons, readable at arm's length
- Setup and changeover jobs shown as their own line
- The next job ready before the current one finishes
Plant scheduling software that knows what is running
- Start and finish with one tap
- Actual quantity and scrap recorded at finish
- Pause with a reason: waiting for material, waiting for setup, breakdown
- Machine down marked from the floor, with the expected return time
- The planner and the plant manager see status on the Gantt chart as it happens
Shop floor status is included on the Plant plan and above.
When a machine goes down mid shift
The operator marks the work center down. The planner sees it on the schedule, reschedules, and the rest of the week moves: jobs slide to the next free window or to an alternative work center, and orders that now miss their date appear on the late list with the number of days. The queues on the floor update with the new sequence. The whole thing takes a minute, not an afternoon of moving rows.
Factory production management software for the morning meeting
- One shared view of what ran yesterday against what was planned
- Late orders and the bottleneck on the first screen
- Operations running longer than planned, flagged per work center
- The same schedule for the office, the floor and sales
Read how the floor feeds back into the plan on the production planning and control software page, and how each machine's sequence is chosen on the machine scheduling software page.
Put the schedule on the shop floor
Create your account, publish a schedule, and open the queue for your first work center.
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