Google Maps for Manufacturing
Your production schedule is probably wrong before lunch.
Skody recalculates what should run next based on what is actually happening in the shop — machines, labor, materials, outside processing and due dates.
Built for high-mix manufacturing, CNC, fabrication and complex job shops.
See Skody reroute an entire shop in under a minute.
Real Skody schedule · recomputed on demand or on ERP change
The schedule is already wrong.
You had a plan at 6 AM. Then a machine went down. Material didn't arrive. A hot job showed up. An operator called out. A vendor pushed heat treat three days. Most ERP and APS schedules still show the plan you had. Skody recomputes the shop from where production actually is now.
- ·Jobs sequenced
- ·Machines assigned
- ·Promises set
- ·Machine down
- ·Rush order in
- ·Material delayed
- ·Schedule recomputed
- ·Constraints resolved
- ·New path proposed
Like Google Maps rerouting around traffic — except the traffic is your factory. The planner reviews the proposed plan and decides what gets committed.
Visibility that helps you act, not just observe
Skody AI dashboards connect the schedule to the real constraints behind it — bottlenecks, material readiness, and worker load.
Bottleneck analysis
See the constrained work center, the jobs stacked behind it, and the due-date impact in one operational view.
Material readiness
See whether work is actually ready to run — with material status, arrivals, and blockers surfaced before they hit the floor.
Labor + capacity visibility
See who is overloaded, who has available capacity, and how upcoming work is distributed across the team.
Built for the fab shop
Scheduling gets harder when fabrication gets real.
Laser + machine capacity
Schedule finite capacity across machines and work centers.
Labor + skills
Know whether the machine is available and whether the right person is available to run it.
Outside processing
Heat treat, paint, powder coat, plating and other outside operations stay inside the production plan.
Assembly dependencies
Coordinate multi-step jobs and components so downstream assembly is scheduled against reality.
Material readiness
Stop scheduling work against material that isn't actually available.
Live at FABTECH 2026
See your shop change. Then watch Skody reroute it.
FABTECH 2026 · Booth C4546
Las Vegas Convention Center · Central Hall · Las Vegas, NV
At FABTECH Booth C4546 we're demonstrating how Skody handles real production changes without planners manually rebuilding the schedule.
- Real-time finite capacity scheduling
- Automatic scheduling conflict resolution
- Due-date optimization
- Bottleneck prediction
- Labor and skill constraints
- Material availability
- Outside processing
- Pallet and lights-out scheduling
- What-if scheduling before committing the plan
- ERP-connected production visibility
The narrative
Production scheduling is changing.
Excel + tribal knowledge
Planners hand-sequenced jobs. The schedule lived in someone's head — and on a whiteboard.
APS + finite capacity optimization
Better planning. But still a static snapshot — re-run nightly, obsolete by 9 AM.
Recompute-on-change scheduling
The plan is recomputed from live production conditions when you ask or when something significant changes, and the planner commits it.
Most scheduling systems tell you where the plan was.
Skody helps manufacturers navigate from where production actually is.
"We were stuck under 80% OTD. With Skody, we're now planning toward 100% — not a static schedule, a worker-driven plan our team actually follows."
Trusted by precision manufacturers across the United States
Built with real manufacturers.
Iterated daily on actual shop floors. Created by ex-Microsoft engineering leaders and manufacturing operators who got tired of watching schedules go stale by lunch.
See Skody live at FABTECH 2026
October 21–23, 2026
Las Vegas Convention Center
Booth C4546
Frequently asked questions
Where is Skody at FABTECH 2026?
Skody is at FABTECH 2026 in Booth C4546 — Las Vegas Convention Center, Central Hall, Las Vegas, NV, October 21–23, 2026.
What does Skody actually do at a fabrication shop?
Skody recomputes the production schedule from the live state of the shop — machines, labor and skills, material readiness, outside processing and due dates — and proposes an updated plan. It resolves scheduling conflicts automatically and optimizes around due dates; the planner reviews and stays in control of what gets committed.
Does Skody change the sequence on the floor by itself?
No. Skody produces a proposed updated plan. The planner reviews the proposal, adjusts if needed, and commits it. Skody does not change the production sequence without a person.
How does Skody handle outside processing like heat treat or powder coat?
Outside operations are modeled as steps in the routing with their own lead times and promised return dates, so a vendor pushing heat treat three days shows up as a due-date risk on the downstream operations instead of a surprise at assembly.
Does Skody replace our ERP?
No. The ERP stays the system of record. Skody connects to it (read-only) and adds finite capacity scheduling and live shop conditions on top.
What kind of shops is Skody built for?
Discrete manufacturers running roughly 20–200 machines: fabrication, CNC machining, precision job shops, aerospace and defense suppliers, and other high-mix environments where the schedule changes hourly.
Stress-test your current schedule
See your shop rerouted against real conditions. We'll walk through how Skody resolves scheduling conflicts and proposes an updated plan — using a workflow relevant to your shop.