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Getting parts out the door on time
Articles for owners and schedulers at small machine shops, on why jobs go late and how to see one coming while there is still time to save it.
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Why PartScheduler
3 min read
PartScheduler exists for one reason: small machine shops lose customers to late orders. Here is the problem it solves, what it covers and what it leaves out.
Every step, every rerun
4 min read
A repeat part should run the same way each time. Here is why steps go missing on reruns, and how a part recipe carries every step onto every job.
Shipping every order on time, step by step
5 min read
Six steps in PartScheduler take an order from purchase order to shipped, with warnings that flag a late job while you can still save it.
PartScheduler
Know a job is late while you can still do something about it.
PartScheduler is job scheduling for small machine shops. Its main screens are built to answer three questions in under five seconds: what is due this week, what is late or about to be, and where a given job is right now. A machine shop in Michigan schedules its real work on it every day.
Try the demo board on the home page. It runs on made-up jobs in all five of its views.