Google Maps for Manufacturing
Production scheduling that reroutes manufacturing operations when the shop floor changes — on demand, or on a significant ERP change.
Most factory schedules are static ERP snapshots. Skody recomputes the whole shop in minutes from live factory conditions — when the planner asks, or when something significant changes in ERP. Built for CNC, job shop, and high-mix manufacturing.
Static schedules are like printed MapQuest directions. Maps redraws when you miss a turn, when traffic shifts, or when you ask.
Real Skody schedule · replans on demand or on ERP change
The schedule is already wrong.
Modern factories invested in ERP, telemetry, dashboards, automation, and robotics. But production decisions are still largely manual. Most APS systems optimize a static snapshot — and reality changes faster than the schedule.
- ·Jobs sequenced
- ·Machines assigned
- ·Promises set
- ·Machine down
- ·Rush order in
- ·Operator pulled
- ·Planner firefights
- ·Promises slip
- ·Trust erodes
Skody reroutes production against reality — recomputing the finite schedule from live factory conditions when you ask or when ERP changes, not yesterday's snapshot.
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.
Not just dashboarding — a live view of where execution can break.
The narrative
Manufacturing scheduling has gone through 3 eras.
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 schedule is recomputed from live production conditions when you ask or when something significant changes — like navigation redrawing when you miss a turn. Built for reality.
Core metaphor
Google Maps for Manufacturing
Live navigation changed driving because it redraws the route when you miss a turn, when traffic shifts, or when you ask — not every second. Manufacturing scheduling is now undergoing the same transition.
Most scheduling systems tell you where the plan was.
Skody helps manufacturers navigate from where production actually is.
- ERP →destination (what the customer was promised)
- Resources →machines, materials, labor, tools — the route
- Disruptions →machine down, rush order, material slip — the traffic jam
- Live state →where the factory actually is right now — the moving pin
Without live state, the schedule is just a document.
Live at IMTS 2026
See real-time scheduling live.
IMTS 2026 · Booth 135656
McCormick Place · East Building, Level 3 · Chicago
What we're demonstrating:
- Live rerouting as the shop changes
- Bottleneck prediction before it hits
- Real-time finite scheduling
- Lights-out / pallet-aware scheduling
- ERP-connected execution visibility
"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.
Recomputes the whole shop in minutes — when the planner asks, or when ERP says something significant changed.
Concepts
What real-time scheduling actually means
Why static schedules fail
Traditional manufacturing scheduling software generates a plan once per shift or overnight — like printed MapQuest directions from 2003. By 9 AM that plan is already wrong: a spindle goes down, material slips a day, a rush order lands, an operator calls out.
What real-time scheduling means
As a category term, real-time production scheduling means finite capacity scheduling driven by the live state of the shop rather than a nightly batch — machine state, material availability, labor, queue depth, due-date risk. In Skody that recompute runs on demand when the planner presses Compute plan, on a significant ERP change, or continuously where a customer has wired it that way. Google Maps doesn't redraw your route every second: it redraws when you miss a turn, when traffic shifts, or when you ask. Same model, applied to a production decision engine.
Why ERP snapshots become outdated
ERPs are systems of record. They tell you what happened — not what is happening right now on each machine. Skody layers live shop telemetry on top of the ERP so the finite schedule reflects both the system of record and the real state of the floor. Read more on why ERP schedules fail →
Frequently asked questions
IMTS 2026, real-time manufacturing scheduling, finite capacity scheduling, APS, and ERP integration — explained.
Where is Skody at IMTS 2026?
Skody is at IMTS 2026 in Booth 135656 — McCormick Place, East Building, Level 3, Chicago. Look for us in the Software Sector area.
What is real-time manufacturing scheduling?
As a category, real-time manufacturing scheduling means the schedule is recomputed from the live state of the factory — machines, materials, labor, and order changes — rather than a static plan run once per day or shift. Skody recomputes on demand when the planner presses Compute plan, on a significant ERP change, or continuously where a customer has wired it that way. Google Maps doesn't redraw your route every second either — it redraws when you miss a turn, when traffic shifts, or when you ask.
What is finite capacity scheduling?
Finite capacity scheduling sequences jobs against the real available capacity of each work center — machines, tooling, operators — instead of assuming infinite capacity like most ERP systems.
How is Skody different from traditional APS systems?
Traditional APS optimizes a static snapshot from ERP data and re-runs nightly. Skody is a production decision engine: it recomputes the whole shop in minutes when the planner asks, and again when a significant ERP change lands — machine down, rush order, material slip, operator pulled.
What ERP systems does Skody integrate with?
Skody connects to common discrete-manufacturing ERPs (Epicor, JobBOSS, Global Shop, ProShop, E2, Fishbowl, NetSuite, SAP, and others) and pulls live shop telemetry on top.
What industries is Skody designed for?
Skody is built for discrete manufacturers running 20–200 machines: CNC machining, precision job shops, fabrication, aerospace and defense suppliers, and other high-mix / low-to-mid-volume environments where the schedule changes hourly.
Stress-test your current schedule
See your factory rerouted against real conditions. We'll walk through how Skody recomputes the finite schedule on demand and on ERP change — using a workflow relevant to your shop.