Case Studies

    Real Results from Real Shops

    Three discrete manufacturers, three scheduling transformations โ€” measured in on-time delivery, planning horizon, and hours saved.

    Aerospace & Defense Job Shop
    Winter Park, FL

    Yeager Manufacturing: From Under 80% to 90%+ OTD in 2 Months

    Yeager Manufacturing was stuck under 80% on-time delivery. With Skody AI scheduling both machines and people, the team plans toward 100% โ€” and actually follows the plan.

    <80% โ†’ 90%+

    OTD in 2 months

    Machines + People

    Scheduled in one plan

    100%

    Planning target

    Zachary Yeager, President of Yeager Manufacturing
    "We were stuck under 80% OTD. With Skody AI, we're planning toward 100%. The difference is simple โ€” it schedules both machines and people, and the team actually follows the plan."

    Zachary Yeager

    President, Yeager Manufacturing

    Aerospace Industry
    Precision Machining
    Kent, WA

    Three Sigma Manufacturing: Scheduling Dropped from Days to Seconds

    Based in Kent, Washington, Three Sigma Manufacturing specializes in precision machining and component manufacturing for the aerospace industry. They replaced Excel-based scheduling and tribal knowledge with Skody AI APS.

    15%

    Reduction in production delays

    Days โ†’ Seconds

    Scheduling time

    1 Week โ†’ 1 Year

    Planning horizon

    15%

    Decrease in inventory levels

    Reduced Scheduling Time

    Scheduling time dropped from 3-4 days to just seconds, with analysis completed within 2 hours.

    ERP Integration

    Real-time data accuracy through dynamic ERP integration, eliminating double entries.

    Extended Planning Horizon

    Planning now covers up to 1 year instead of just 1 week, improving resource utilization.

    Ken Frenkel, CEO of Three Sigma Manufacturing
    "Skody AI completely changed how we schedule. We extended our planning horizon from one week to a full year โ€” without locking ourselves in."

    Ken Frenkel

    CEO, Three Sigma Manufacturing

    CNC Machining
    Leander, TX

    Zimmer Manufacturing: Real-Time Visibility Before Scheduling

    Zimmer Design & Manufacturing is a rapidly growing CNC machining operation in Leander, Texas โ€” founded in 2021 and grown from one employee to fourteen. Zimmer began evaluating Skody as a scheduling solution, then realized a deeper issue: without accurate labor reporting and real-time visibility, scheduling alone would never solve the problem.

    1 โ†’ 14

    Team growth since 2021

    6

    CNC mills

    2

    Lathes

    15 min

    Dashboard refresh

    Adam Zimmer, President of Zimmer Manufacturing
    "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 โ€” and helps us adjust before problems hit the floor."

    Adam Zimmer

    President, Zimmer Manufacturing

    What These Shops Have in Common

    Excel-based scheduling that broke under real shop complexity
    Heavy reliance on tribal knowledge of senior staff
    Schedules that were obsolete within hours of publishing
    A schedule the team now actually follows

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