Production Scheduling Software for High-Mix Shops
Last updated: October 30, 2026
Hit more due dates.Increase throughput. Without adding machines.
Skody helps you hit more due dates and increase throughput without adding machines. It connects to your ERP, automatically resolves machine, labor, material and priority conflicts, and produces an executable production schedule optimized first for due dates and then for throughput.
Built for high-mix manufacturers, job shops, aerospace suppliers and other discrete manufacturers where the schedule changes faster than the ERP can keep up.
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2× Revenue Growth
Yeager Manufacturing
Yeager doubled revenue and credits Skody with helping the operation scale successfully.
15% Fewer Production Delays
Three Sigma Manufacturing
Scheduling dropped from 3–4 days to seconds, while the planning horizon expanded from 1 week to 1 year.
Reactive → Proactive
Zimmer Manufacturing
Real-time visibility into capacity, bottlenecks and labor helps the team adjust before problems hit the production floor.
Skody AI is production scheduling software for high-mix job shops that keeps your ERP and replaces the spreadsheet schedule. Live integrations include ProShop, Fulcrum and JobBOSS²; other connections depend on data access and scope. Machine-only scheduling for cells with fewer than 10 machines starts at $1,500/month, month-to-month.
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Your ERP may have the data. That does not mean you have a production schedule.
Orders, routings, time estimates, work centers, material data and labor activity are already in the ERP. Planners still export it into Excel, sequence the jobs by hand, and keep repairing the plan as production changes. That is the gap Skody fills.
ERP
- Orders
- Routings
- Materials
- Clock-ins
- Due dates
Skody
- Constraint model
- Automatic conflict resolution
- Due-date-first optimization
Floor
- What should run
- On which machine
- With which person
- In what sequence
- To hit which due dates
“ERP is the system of record. Skody is the production decision layer.”
What Skody actually does differently
Skody makes the scheduling decisions, not just the Gantt chart. The question is not whether an optimizer can build a schedule — it is how much work your planner still has to do after it runs.
Resolve conflicts automatically
When two jobs need the same machine, operator, skill, tooling, material or pallet, the planner should not have to solve the whole puzzle by hand. Skody evaluates the constraints and produces a feasible production sequence automatically.
- In: jobs, machines, people, skills
- In: materials, tooling, pallets, priorities
- Out: an executable production baseline
Optimize for the business objective
Not every feasible schedule is a good schedule. Skody follows one stated hierarchy every time it computes a plan.
- First: hit customer due dates
- If that is impossible: minimize lateness
- Then: improve throughput and productive capacity
- Always: respect real manufacturing constraints
Make the schedule usable
A plan people can operate from — planner, floor and management looking at the same sequence.
- Machine sequence and worker assignments
- Delivery map, bottleneck view, execution queue
- Plan A / B / C comparison before you commit
LIVE FLOOR VIEW
See the bottleneck, queued work, and delivery impact in one place
Skody connects a constrained work center to the real jobs queued behind it, the people qualified to run it, and the due dates it puts at risk.
Bottleneck view — Skody AI
Capability
Bottleneck by week
Capability
Waiting vs running work
Capability
Worker-aware schedule
Capability
Due date impact
Not just a schedule — a live view of where capacity is breaking down.
If your best scheduler lives in Excel, you are not alone
A common Skody customer already has an ERP but still builds or repairs the real production schedule in Excel. The ERP holds the transactions. The planner is still deciding:
- What goes first
- What can actually run today
- Which operator can run it
- Which jobs are becoming late
- What happens after a machine or material problem
Skody automates that decision work.
See how Skody works with existing ERP dataFrom ERP data to an actionable production baseline
Skody is designed for a short path from ERP data to a usable production baseline. Your ERP stays the system of record throughout.
01
Connect
Read orders, routings, materials, production state and related ERP data.
02
Model
Map real shop constraints such as machines, skills, shifts, pallets, setups and outside processing.
03
Compute
Skody resolves the conflicts and produces the production baseline.
04
Execute and recompute
Use the schedule on the floor. When conditions change, recompute with the same decision logic.
A machine breaks. An operator calls out. What happens next?
7:00 AM
The schedule is good.
10:00 AM
- An operation ran long
- A qualified operator is absent
- Material is delayed
- A rush job arrives
Without Skody
The planner starts manually rearranging the schedule.
With Skody
Update the changed conditions and recompute an optimized baseline.
The value is not just recalculation. It is that Skody makes the scheduling decisions again using the same business priorities.
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Built for high-mix production
High-mix is hard for a reason: many active jobs, different routings, short runs, constant setup changes, shared machines, skilled labor, outside operations, due-date pressure and frequent expediting. Every one of those is a constraint Skody schedules against.
Skody fits CNC job shops, aerospace and defense suppliers, fabrication teams, contract manufacturers, discrete assembly, additive and other mixed-operation plants where labor, routing complexity and outside processing affect delivery.
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Real results from a job shop running Skody AI
"Skody AI completely changed how we schedule. We extended our planning horizon from one week to a full year — without locking ourselves in."
Ken Frenkel
CEO, Three Sigma Manufacturing (Kent, WA)
"We were stuck under 80% OTD. With Skody AI, we're planning toward 100%. The difference is simple — it schedules both machines and people, and the team actually follows the plan."
Zachary Yeager
President, Yeager Manufacturing (Winter Park, FL)
Machines + People Scheduled · Plan the Team Actually Follows
"Scheduling used to be reactive for us. Now we're planning ahead with confidence. Skody gives us real-time visibility into capacity, bottlenecks, and labor — and helps us adjust before problems hit the floor."
Adam Zimmer
President, Zimmer Manufacturing (Leander, TX)
Real-Time Visibility · Adaptive Scheduling
Is Skody the right fit?
Skody is designed so a production manager does not need to become an optimization specialist. It is not the right answer for every shop.
Good fit
- You already run an ERP and intend to keep it
- High-mix production with frequent schedule changes
- A planner spending hours a day in Excel
- Labor and operator skills constrain what can run
- Management cannot reliably see which jobs will be late
- You need a fast path to an actionable floor schedule
Less likely fit
- Simple, repetitive production with little constraint interaction
- You are primarily shopping for a new ERP
- You need a broad enterprise MES / MOM replacement
- Scheduling is already handled well by a whiteboard
Frequently Asked Questions
When jobs compete for the same machine, work center, operator, skill, material, tooling, pallet or block of production time, Skody produces a default executable sequence instead of asking the planner to arbitrate every conflict by hand. The planner reviews, overrides and compares scenarios. Learn more about our manufacturing scheduling software →
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