Can I see one specific machine, or only the work centre?

Both, at the same time. Work-centre roll-up and machine-centre detail sit side by side on the same screen. Some bottlenecks live at the machine level, such as one specific CNC or one specific oven, and they surface without you having to switch view.

What happens if I change the shift calendar?

The year view updates immediately. Add a planned maintenance window, swap a single-shift week for two shifts or mark a public holiday, and every affected cell recolours on the next paint. No rebuild, no sync.

Is this the same data as the planning board?

Yes. The year view is a roll-up of the same orders, the same shift calendar, the same capacity definitions. There's no second model to maintain and no risk of the year view drifting out of sync with the live plan.

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

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Advanced tier

uScheduler Production · Year View

A full year, one screen, every work centre.

Zoom out from the day to the year. See where you have room left and where you're overbooked, week by week, per work centre or per machine centre. The question changes from "can we fit this in next Tuesday?" to "where does Q3 break?".

Every week of the year, at a glance

One row per work centre, one column per week, 52 cells across. Blue where there's room, orange where it's tight, red where you're overbooked. Scan a row and you'll find the squeeze.

Work centre and machine centre, side by side

Both roll-ups on the same screen. Some bottlenecks show at the work-centre level, and others hide inside it, in one specific CNC or one specific oven. You see both at once without switching views.

Drill from year to day

Click any week to drop straight into the planning board for that week. The year view is the doorway; the daily plan is where you commit.

What you see

The plan you defend at the management meeting.

The board is about tomorrow. The year view is for the bigger talks, such as whether to add a shift, buy a machine or move a customer’s delivery window. You don’t need a separate Excel model for that, because the year view uses the same data as the plan, shown per week the way ops and finance already think.

52 weeks, every work centre, on one screen
Work-centre and machine-centre roll-ups side by side
Load vs capacity in colour: blue, orange, red
Click a week to drop into the planning board
Same data as the live plan, with no separate model to maintain
Holidays, maintenance and planned downtime already subtracted

Production planning board showing two weeks of orders across ten machines

When this matters

Signals you'd reach for this.

Capacity models live in Excel

Operations builds a yearly capacity model once a quarter in Excel, from data already in Business Central. Three months later it’s stale and nobody updates it.

Bottlenecks announce themselves at quote time

Sales promises a Q3 delivery without knowing Q3 is already 110% loaded on the bottleneck machine. The discovery happens at scheduling, which is too late to renegotiate.

You can’t see the year from the daily board

The planning board is built for tomorrow. Asking it to also answer “is October overbooked?” is asking the wrong tool the wrong question.

Hiring decisions arrive too late

A second shift takes months to staff. If the overload only becomes visible in the week it hits, the decision is already late.

FAQ

The questions everyone asks first.

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Planned hours against available capacity for each week, per work centre. Available capacity comes from the shift calendar, with holidays, maintenance windows and planned downtime subtracted. Below 85% is blue (room left), 85-100% orange (tight), above 100% red (overbooked). Thresholds are configurable.

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