Production scheduling

A customer call at 2pm becomes a Gantt at 2:00:30.

Open the customer order, tap Draft schedule, and I propose the whole week. production tasks per item, a shipment task at the end, sequenced back-to-back on whichever operator is free. You review it as a Gantt and tap Accept.

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Customer
Lakeshore · OC-2026-00080
120 EM-100 by Friday
Draft schedule
Mon
120 PCB-RAW
Tue
120 PCB-100
Wed
120 EM-100
Thu
Ship · 120

4 tasks · 1 operator · all set in one tap

How it works

Draft the whole week in one tap

Every customer order has a Draft schedule button. Tap it and I walk the order lines → end products → BOMs, create one production task per item plus a shipment task at the end, and put them on whichever operator is currently assigned (or any active member if you haven't assigned anyone).

The bars land on the Gantt for you to nudge if needed. Default sequencing is back-to-back starting at the next 9am. You can drag any bar to a different operator or time and the next save persists.

Status from the bench, not the laptop

Each task on the Gantt opens a small modal with one big Start button. Operators hit Start when they begin and Mark done when they finish. and stock movements post atomically against the BOM snapshot taken when the task was scheduled. (BOMs edited mid-schedule don't silently change historical tasks.)

A My Tasks page mirrors what's assigned to the operator who's signed in, with the next thing pinned at the top so they don't have to think.

Drag a bar, see what slips

Drag any scheduled or paused bar to a new time. On drop, I walk the downstream chain (other production tasks that consume this task's output, customer orders that need the end product) and pop a confirmation modal showing the cascade: which tasks now start before their inputs land, which customer orders go past the agreed delivery date, by how many days.

Accept the slip and the reschedule writes. Cancel and the bar snaps back. You see the consequences before you commit to them.

The Gantt isn’t where you live, it’s where you go to look

Legacy MRPs make the Gantt the primary surface. drag bars, fight conflicts, regenerate. TuringDock's Gantt is the visual audit trail. You spend your time on the canvas drafting orders and POs; the schedule materializes from those actions and you only check the Gantt when you want to glance at the week.

Three zoom levels. Day, Week, Month. and a today line so you always know where you are. Bars are colored by status, with shipment tasks getting a small truck glyph so the eye finds them.

Why this is the new age of MRP

Legacy MRPs make scheduling a multi-screen ritual. You set up the routing, define the operators, define the calendars, drag the bars, resolve conflicts manually, and your morning is gone.

TuringDock asks one question: what did you just sell? Then it proposes the plan. The Gantt is the receipt of decisions you already made.

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Common questions

What is AI-first production scheduling?
AI-first scheduling means you don't drag bars on a Gantt to plan production. You tap one button on a customer order ('Draft schedule') and Alan walks the BOM, computes the production tasks needed, sequences them across your operators, and proposes the whole week. You review the bars on the Gantt and tap Accept. The Gantt becomes the visual audit trail of decisions you already made, not the surface you fight with.
Does TuringDock's Gantt support drag-to-reschedule?
Yes, and with cascade analysis. Drag any scheduled or paused bar to a new time. On drop, Alan walks the downstream chain (other production tasks that consume this task's output, customer orders that depend on the end product) and pops a confirmation modal showing the impact: which downstream tasks now start before their inputs land, which customer orders go past their agreed delivery date, by how many days. Accept the reschedule and the move writes; cancel and the bar snaps back.
How does TuringDock handle operator capacity?
Each operator (active workspace member) is a row on the Gantt with a weekly_hours capacity setting. The Draft Schedule action distributes proposed tasks across operators based on availability and skill-tagged routings. Overload is surfaced visually (red outline on overlapping bars) and proactively (Alan DMs the admin when next week is over-capacity). Multi-week multi-objective optimization is the premium tier — basic per-order scheduling is free.
Can operators update task status from Slack?
Yes. The standard flow: operator at the bench DMs Alan 'start PCB-100' when they begin, 'done 50 PCB-100' when they finish. Alan moves the task through its state machine and atomically posts stock movements against the BOM snapshot taken when the task was scheduled. The Gantt and My Tasks board update in the web app within a second. Whoever's at the desk sees the bar flip colour.
What's the difference between free scheduling and the premium auto-scheduler?
Free tier: auto-schedule a single customer order in one tap. Premium tier: multi-week multi-objective optimization across every open customer order, every scheduled task, your full supplier lead-time graph, and operator capacity simultaneously. The premium tier minimizes total tardiness across all orders while keeping workforce evenly loaded, re-runs nightly, and surfaces what-if scenarios ('if I move Lakeshore's due date to next Friday, here's what frees up'). For shops with 10+ concurrent orders where the schedule space is too large to plan by hand.

Related features

Customer orders + quoting

Where the Draft schedule button lives.

Purchase orders + receipts

Inputs to production tasks. The PO lands, the schedule unblocks.

Last updated 2026-05-24 (cascade analysis on bar drag)