Priority, setup, and run time together
Builds the schedule using what matters most, real changeover time, and runtime, all at once, instead of guessing by hand.
Advanced Production Scheduling
Three customers, one machine and no way to tell whose order came first.
Request a Walkthrough
The Setup
Inside the Operation
A shop that makes shafts, housings, and turned parts for three car-industry customers. Each customer has its own delivery dates and its own priority level. The same machines make many different parts, so switching from one part to another takes different amounts of time depending on what ran before it.
26
CNC machines
3
Customers, different priority levels
40+
Parts made regularly
The Problems
Four ways the old system cost them every single week.
Planning relied on manual decisions, fixed assumptions, and delayed updates, making schedules difficult to optimise or adjust.
With three customers sharing the same machines, no one could tell whose order should run first.
Changeover times varied by part, but the plan assumed fixed durations that rarely matched reality.
Priorities lived in people's heads, so urgent jobs slipped behind lower-value work.
By the time the schedule was updated, conditions on the floor had already moved on.
The Change
What Changed With Smart PPS
Priority set once, followed every time
Each customer's priority is entered once. Urgent orders move ahead of routine ones automatically.
Reacts when a machine goes down
The moment a machine breaks down, affected jobs shift to another machine or time – no waiting for someone to catch it.
Estimated Impact
How Smarter Scheduling Can Improve Performance
These are estimated ranges based on typical scheduling situations like this — not measured results from one specific customer.
20–30%
Hours lost to unplanned changeover time
15-20%
Orders delivered late to customers
Hrs → Min
Time to update the plan after a breakdown
Try → Use
New rules can be tried before going live