Manufacturing Scheduling Software for Production Planning

Manufacturing production is scheduled by sequencing work orders across work centers while accounting for capacity, routings, setup times, shift calendars, due dates, and dependencies. Planify supports finite scheduling, meaning jobs are placed only where real capacity exists. It can schedule forward or backward from due dates and preserve constraints during replans.

AI and optimization tools can help production scheduling, but the results are only useful when the system understands real shop floor constraints. Planify automates finite scheduling and disruption replanning around setups, shifts, dependencies, and capacity. That gives planners faster answers without publishing a schedule the floor cannot actually run.

Finite scheduling limits production plans to actual available capacity, while infinite-capacity ERP schedules often assume work centers can run without constraint. Planify models setup, run, teardown, move time, shifts, and dependencies so the schedule reflects what can realistically happen on the shop floor.

Planify is designed to sit alongside your ERP as the production scheduling layer. It can pull work orders, routings, and work-center data through CSV, API, or database read patterns, then dispatch sequenced operations back to the floor without requiring a rip-and-replace ERP project.

Yes. Planify includes Run on Pretend mode so planners can model a machine breakdown, rush order, or capacity change before committing the new schedule. It previews which orders slip and by how much, helping teams compare options quickly and choose the least disruptive response.

Planify models exact sequence-dependent setup times, separate setup, run, teardown, and move times, and compatible job groupings. This helps machine shops, press shops, and complex manufacturers reduce hidden capacity loss caused by changeovers that spreadsheets and many ERP scheduling modules ignore.

Planify supports shift calendars by work center, including first, second, and third shifts, overtime rules, weekend closures, holidays, calendar exceptions, and workforce availability constraints. Jobs are moved away from closed shifts automatically so the published schedule matches actual labor and machine availability.

Planify uses small-batch onboarding so manufacturing teams can connect production data, validate routings and work centers, configure shift calendars, and run their first finite schedule with hands-on support. The goal is to avoid a long consulting project and get planners using a real schedule inside weeks.