Planning & Scheduling

Plans that survive contact with reality

Let Prodex build the schedule for you, then drag work orders across machines and time on an interactive Gantt. Mould compatibility is enforced, collisions are detected, holidays and maintenance windows are respected — and nothing is saved until you confirm it.

Prodex drag-and-drop resource scheduling Gantt
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Drag & drop scheduling

Pull unplanned orders onto any machine, reschedule across time and machines, with suggested alternative slots when plans collide.

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Constraint-aware

Mould-to-machine compatibility is enforced on drop, and durations stretch automatically around holidays and semi-work days.

Bulk reschedule

Reposition the entire board in one action — considering realized progress, machine status and the holiday calendar — with batched saving and progress tracking.

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Shop-floor work plan

A read-only Gantt for the floor: live machine status, dual-color realized-vs-planned bars, a red "now" line and rich tooltips at any zoom.

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Material requirements

Explode the plan through BoMs per day or shift, compare against warehouse stock and flag every line: sufficient, transfer needed or insufficient.

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MRP

From open sales orders to a ranked materials-to-order list with lead times, order-by dates and urgency levels — critical to low.

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Maintenance-aware

Planned maintenance blocks a machine exactly like a holiday — for its real window, not the whole day. Orders start after it or stretch across it, in drag & drop, reschedule and Auto Plan alike.

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Change reports & ERP sync

Every planning action produces an old → new change report with Excel download, a Changes button lists pending edits before saving, and machine moves are written back to the ERP.

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Live order states

Running orders green, stopped red, and the honest cases in amber: "should be running — idle", "should be running — delayed" and "delayed — window passed".

Prodex Auto Plan proposal on the scheduling timeline
Auto Plan

Let the system draft the schedule

Press Auto Plan and Prodex lays out every open order across compatible machines in seconds — then shows you what it intends to do before a single row is saved.

  • Forward or backward — start everything as soon as possible, or as late as possible while still meeting due dates within a tolerance you set
  • Machine rebalancing — untouched orders can be moved to a compatible machine when it makes the whole plan better
  • Holidays and maintenance are respected across the entire horizon, not just the part on screen
  • Preview, then commit — results open as a change report; nothing is written until you approve it
  • Targeted reschedule — pick the machines to recalculate instead of reflowing the whole board
Order → Work Order

Turn open orders into production, correctly

One screen lists every open sales-order line that still needs production and creates the work orders in your ERP — with the quantity question already answered.

  • Stock-aware quantities — available stock is shared out across lines by closest due date, and reservations release automatically when an order closes or ships
  • Produce in full — untick "use stock" on a line and its share is instantly redistributed to the other lines of the same item
  • Cartons and pallets — the quantity shows what it comes to in packs, with buttons that round to a whole carton or pallet and per-line pack sizes when the floor packs differently
  • Label check with incoming stock — on-hand labels, the quantity already on open purchase orders, and what the shortage becomes once it arrives
  • Recipe, machine and mould selection with passive recipes filtered out, plus searchable multi-select item, customer and mould filters
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Rework work orders

Returned goods get their own flow. Prodex reads return documents straight from the ERP — including those entered or corrected directly in it — lets you adjust quantities per line, deducts rework already ordered, and raises an order against the rework machine with no sales-order line behind it. At the kiosk that order consumes the product itself instead of exploding a recipe, and machines with no counter fitted are limited by the planned quantity.

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Work Orders & Calendar

From plan to printed paperwork

  • Work-order board grouped by machine with BoM viewer and live stop badges
  • Standardized PDFs — three official form layouts generated with week selection
  • Shift staffing calculator — employee requirements for today and tomorrow under multiple scenarios
  • Holiday planning — production, shipment or both; full or semi-work with per-machine selection; feeds OEE capacity math automatically
  • Plan-gated starts — a machine refuses to start a work order that was never scheduled, so nothing can run invisibly outside the plan
  • The plan on the floor — operators open the same schedule on the kiosk as a touch list or a zoomable timeline with a now line
Prodex work orders with shift staffing calculator and plan PDFs

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