Inside the real workflow of a production planner managing 32 resources, customer commitments, bottlenecks, and production capacity.
15%
Reduction in production delays
Days → Seconds
Scheduling time
1 Week → 1 Year
Planning horizon
Real-Time
Schedule updates
Marcus Crockett, Production Planner at Three Sigma Manufacturing, walks through his daily 5:00 AM scheduling routine and explains how his team uses Skody to identify bottlenecks, evaluate capacity, and stay ahead of production issues.
Three Sigma Technologies is a precision manufacturing company based in Kent, Washington serving aerospace, defense, and industrial customers. Like many high-mix manufacturers, the company faced increasing planning complexity as demand, machine utilization, labor constraints, and customer expectations continued to grow.
"My stress level as the scheduler at Three Sigma since we've gotten Skody has way gone down."
Marcus Crockett
Production Planner, Three Sigma Manufacturing
"I can quickly find out if I can or can't ship something early. It takes me seconds to get there."
Marcus Crockett
Production Planner, Three Sigma Manufacturing
Every morning begins with a fresh view of current factory conditions. Rather than managing yesterday's schedule, Three Sigma continuously evaluates today's reality and adjusts accordingly.
5:00 AM
Review new jobs added overnight
5:05 AM
Compute a fresh production plan
5:10 AM
Review Delivery Map and customer commitments
5:15 AM
Identify bottlenecks and at-risk orders
5:30 AM
Move resources and communicate priorities
According to Marcus, the Delivery Map is the most valuable screen in the platform because it immediately shows where delivery performance is trending and where future problems are developing.
A live view of every customer commitment. Planners instantly see which orders are trending late and which are safe.
Lead time decomposed into production work, material waits, and bottleneck delays — so planners know where to act.
Capacity across 32 resources mapped against current demand so planners can rebalance load before it becomes a problem.
From one week to one year
Answer delivery questions in seconds
Identify constraints before shipments are missed
Greater visibility into future production risks
Less time reacting and more time planning
A schedule planners can trust
"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 Technologies
Most scheduling systems create a plan from a static snapshot. The problem is that the snapshot becomes outdated the moment production changes.
Skody continuously reads the current state of production and recalculates the schedule based on what is actually happening on the floor.
The result is a schedule planners can trust.
Skody continuously recalculates schedules using live production data, labor availability, machine capacity, and material readiness. Excel schedules must typically be updated manually.
Yes. Material readiness is treated as a scheduling constraint and is included in planning calculations.
Yes. When conditions change, Skody recalculates the affected portion of the schedule and highlights delivery impact.
Skody does not assume every order can be delivered on time. When demand exceeds available capacity, Skody shows which jobs will slip, identifies the constraints causing delays, and allows planners to evaluate staffing, overtime, outsourcing, or sequencing changes before committing to customers.
Most customers begin seeing value within weeks, not months.
We'll use your actual jobs, machines, routing data, and constraints to show how Skody would schedule your operation.