Current order book
Line, duration, changeover and risk come from the current plan where one exists; otherwise the table shows eligible resources and an estimated duration.
Drag a block to move it. Click a block to see it, take it, or change it. Click a changeover block to edit its rule.
ProductionChangeoverIdle / availableNeeds attentionNow
Weekly plan
Needs attention
Unscheduled orders
Missed — past due, not completed
Planning intake
Production orders
Review commitments, risk and eligible production resources before scheduling the work queue.
Step 2 · Calculate
Auto scheduler
Builds a draft plan from the open orders, line capabilities, shift hours and changeover rules. Nothing goes live until you activate it.
Proposed timeline
Production timeline
No schedule generated
ProductionChangeoverIdleBehind scheduleNow
How the plan loads each line
Line loading
Where the work landed, and how much of each shift it consumes.
What drove this plan
The constraints the scheduler applied, in the order it applied them.
Why this plan won
Every heuristic built a complete schedule. The lowest Schedule Score was kept; the rest were discarded.
| Heuristic | Schedule Score | Lateness penalty | Changeover penalty | Late orders | vs. winner |
|---|
Change the inputs
Change the inputs, then recalculate
The scheduler only sees recorded facts. Add the order first so the next draft accounts for it.
Human-in-the-loop control
Review & activate
Everything the scheduler is proposing, what it commits the plant to, and the decisions still standing between this draft and the production floor.
Decisions required
Work that cannot run as proposed. Accept it anyway, or leave it out of this plan.
Finishing past due
These will run, but land after their due-date cutoff. Activating the plan acknowledges them — escalate with the customer.
What changes
Difference from the active plan
Only allocations that move, appear or drop out.
| Order | Currently | Proposed | Change | Risk |
|---|
Planner decision
AuditableActivate makes this the plan operators follow. Allocations meeting every constraint are accepted automatically — you are only asked about genuine exceptions.
Discard throws the draft away; the previously approved plan keeps running.
Proposed plan
Timeline
No schedule draft is waiting for review.
All allocations
Every production block in this draft.
Shop-floor execution
My production line
Only the active work assigned to your line is shown here.
● LIVE OPERATION
Assigned work queue
Follow the approved production sequence and record actual events immediately.
Sequence optimisation
Changeovers
Every switch between product families costs cleaning and setup time. This is where that time goes, and what the sequencing avoided.
Sequence per line
Run order
Each line in the order it runs. Amber markers are changeovers, with the time they cost.
Where the time goes
Transitions in this plan
Ranked by cost. These are the switches actually scheduled.
Family matrix
Configured cost of every switch, in minutes.
Product changeover matrix — Admin only
Product changeover matrix
Precise minute-level duration for specific product pairs on a line. A pair not listed here falls back to the family matrix above.
Scheduling configuration — Admin only
Changed a heuristic, its priority, or the tardiness weight? Recalculate to apply it to the live plan.
Scheduling heuristics
Every enabled heuristic below runs in the tournament each time a schedule is generated or re-optimised; the lowest Schedule Score wins.
Scheduling rules
Higher values make the scheduler prioritise avoiding late orders more heavily over minimising changeover time.
Reporting
Reports
Pick a question, set the range, read the answer. Every report is a fixed, parameterised query — there is no free-text SQL, and nothing here can read outside what your account is allowed to see.
Select a report
Choose one from the list to run it.
Operational Intelligence
Explainable recommendations drawn from recorded schedule and capacity data.
Planning horizon
Generate date-specific operational intelligence
Recommendations are deterministic: they calculate from the selected schedule, capacity, shifts and due dates.
Priority operational actions
Choose a date range, then generate explainable recommendations.
Insight history
Latest generated resultsLine utilization
Production lines
Recommended action
No recommendation yet
Insights use the system’s recorded operational data. Validate recommendations with the production team before execution.
Operational reports
Export the current local records for planning review or your capstone evidence.
Administration
Access Center
Accounts, permissions and activity history for this plant system.
User accounts
Reset a password for anyone who cannot sign in. Resets issue a one-time temporary password.
Audit Trail & Role Access
Admin only. Sign-ins, password resets and account changes — every other activity lives on the pages it happened on.
Role permissions
Every signed-in role can open every page — page access is not the boundary. What a role may do is checked on the server for each action, so a hidden button is a convenience, not the control.
| Capability | Who can do it |
|---|---|
| Add, confirm and edit orders | Admin · Planner · Supervisor |
| Calculate, re-optimise and activate schedules | Admin · Planner |
| Approve or exclude individual allocations | Admin · Planner · Supervisor |
| Move blocks, take over and run changeovers | Admin · Planner · Supervisor · Operator |
| Start, pause and complete production runs | Admin · Planner · Supervisor · Operator |
| Finalize the weekly plan, take a line offline, generate insights | Admin · Planner · Supervisor |
| Changeover rules, product matrix, heuristics, tardiness weight | Admin only |
| Create accounts, reset passwords, view audit history | Admin only |
| Read every page | Every role — Viewer holds nothing else |
