Production Planning

uScheduler Production

A production plan you can actually execute.

Most production planning tools draw beautiful Gantts that nobody can act on. In uScheduler Production, every cell on the board is a decision you can make. Drag an order and capacity, tooling, qualifications, sequencing and material availability all update instantly. If something doesn’t fit, you see it right away. Auto-Plan suggests a starting point and the planner fine-tunes it. Nothing changes on the floor until the planner commits. 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 with orders scheduled across ten machines over three days
Functionalities · 8
uScheduler Production · Planning Board

The plan is the editor.

No separate edit mode, no separate capacity view. Drag an order, see the consequence and commit it. Capacity and material availability are visible wherever you are on the board, so the conversation in your morning standup is about the same plan the board shows.

Drag, drop, recalculate
Move an order to another machine, day or shift, and the capacity, sequence and material checks update instantly. Conflicts show up where they happen.
Live consequence preview
Hover over an order before you drop it to see which orders move, which ones slip and where room opens up. You decide with the result in front of you.
A view tuned to each planner
Gantt or list, switched with one keystroke. Customise what you see: columns, groupings, colours, time horizon. Every planner saves their own default and opens where they left off.
What you see

A board that argues back.

When you drop an order somewhere infeasible, the board doesn’t silently accept it. It tells you whether the problem is capacity, a missing qualification, the sequence or the material. You then decide whether to undo the move, ignore the warning with a note, or accept it and let the later orders slip. The board records which one you chose.

  • Switch between Gantt and list view with one keystroke
  • Capacity and material availability on every view, so you don't need a separate report
  • Inline reschedule with consequence preview
  • Multi-select for bulk moves
  • Saved views per planner, opening where you left off
Production planning board showing two weeks of orders across ten machines
When this matters

Signals you'd reach for this.

01
Drag-and-drop is fake
Tools that “support drag-and-drop” but commit silently or don’t check feasibility are demoware. The check has to be live, or the gesture is meaningless.
02
You replan in your head
When the board can’t answer “what happens if I move this?”, planners do the math mentally and the tool stops earning its keep.
03
Two views, two truths
A separate “current plan” and “proposed plan” almost always drift apart. One board prevents this.
04
The plan lives in Excel
When planners export to a spreadsheet to make the real decisions, the board is decoration. The plan should live where the moves are made.
FAQ

The questions everyone asks first.

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Under a second for typical mid-size catalogues (5k orders, 50 work centres). The check is incremental, so only the affected window re-runs.

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