Production Planning

uScheduler Production

A production plan you can actually execute.

Most production planning tools draw beautiful Gantts that nobody can act on. uScheduler Production starts from the opposite premise: every cell on the board is a decision waiting to be made. Drag an order and capacity, tooling, qualifications, sequencing and material availability all update instantly — if something does not fit, it becomes visible. Auto-Plan proposes a feasible starting point; the planner refines it; nothing changes on the floor without the planner committing. The result is a plan you can show on a screen above the line without explaining, and defend in a sales meeting when somebody asks "when can we ship it?

Production planning board showing work centers and scheduled orders for week 19
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uScheduler Production · KPI Dashboard

The plan and the score, on the same screen.

On-time completion. Capacity utilisation. Schedule adherence. Setup hours lost. Late orders. Forecast vs actual throughput. One screen, refreshed continuously, that tells a planner whether the floor is winning — and lets a controller answer the same question without a spreadsheet.

The KPIs that actually matter
On-time start, on-time finish, schedule adherence, capacity utilisation, OEE-style availability, late orders, setup time as % of run time. Pre-built, no configuration.
Live, not lagged
Every tile reads straight from the same data the floor is writing. No nightly job, no warehouse hop — when an operator reports time, the number on the screen moves. Yesterday's on-time is on the screen before this morning's standup.
A floor view for the wall screen
A second, read-only layout designed for a TV above the line: large type, no chrome, the KPIs that matter to that area auto-rotating. The number the planner sees on their laptop is the same number the floor sees on the wall.
What you see

A dashboard you read every morning.

Most dashboards get checked once a quarter. uScheduler puts the KPIs on the same workspace as the plan — so a planner sees yesterday’s score before they touch today’s plan. The act of opening the tool is the act of seeing the result of your last decisions.

  • On-time start, on-time finish, schedule adherence
  • Capacity utilisation per work centre and aggregated
  • Setup hours as % of total run hours
  • Late orders, days late, EUR exposure
  • Throughput: planned vs actual per shift
Production planning board showing two weeks of orders across ten machines
When this matters

Signals you'd reach for this.

01
Reports come from accounting
When the only "are we on time?" number comes from finance month-end, planners are blind during the month.
02
Targets are aspirational
A 95% on-time target without a daily readout is wishful thinking. Visibility creates accountability.
03
Improvement is invisible
A 2-point on-time improvement is real money — if anyone can see the trendline.
04
A KPI in Excel changes nothing
A number pasted into a deck once a month is a report, not a feedback loop. Improvement needs the readout next to the work, refreshed while the shift is still running.
FAQ

The questions everyone asks first.

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Live. Every KPI on the dashboard reads from the same data the floor is writing — no hourly sync, no nightly refresh, no staging table. When an operator reports time, the number on the screen moves.

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