Gantt Timeline
How to see a list of a specific Workstation Queue
Last Updated: March 9, 2025The GANTT Timeline visually helps you see how your jobs are scheduled and progressing, but a list of tasks can also be very handy! To get a list of tasks from a specific workstation: Now, you will see a list of the tasks this workstation will have in the future. You can filter the jobs...
How to Unschedule all my jobs from my GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 10, 2025If you wish to restart over and remove all the jobs you have scheduled in the GANTT Timeline: Done! Now, you will see your GANTT Timeline empty. Remember your jobs are unscheduled, and you can return them to the GANTT Timeline by selecting them at the bottom left.
Fast Track introduction video
Last Updated: March 12, 2025An order that needs to be carried out urgently despite your plan already being set?Don’t worry! With the Fast Track function, you can prioritize that urgent order, and SkyPlanner will take care of optimizing your planning. Watch the following introduction video.
Dynamic priorities
Last Updated: March 7, 2025Dynamic priorities are at the core of SkyPlanner, enhancing AI-assisted production planning. You thus direct the AI with your wishes. This feature allows you to set priorities for different customers, tasks, and orders, and the AI intelligently considers them in the work schedule. You can favor key customers, plan urgent or time-consuming tasks as a priority,...
Allow moving jobs to other more appropriate workstations
Last Updated: March 7, 2025Opting for this option allows the AI to flexibly choose from various workstations for task completion based on your inputs about where each job can be done. You can assign specific tasks to suitable resources, and SkyPlanner’s AI will then select the optimal workstation, considering the current production flow. Moreover, by defining efficiency ratings for each workstation,...
Consider the Materials
Last Updated: February 20, 2025Checking warehouse materials before planning production prevents delays by ensuring your production has what it needs to start. This step avoids wasting time and resources on halted jobs. Consider the materials is a feature that instructs Arcturus, SkyPlanner’s AI, to consider the materials and resources available in the storage. To activate it, you only have to...
Workstage dependencies
Last Updated: February 18, 2025A process step may require the completion (or a certain degree of it) of a preceding step before it can begin, although this isn’t always necessary. SkyPlanner offers a customizable option, allowing companies to specify whether such dependencies exist between their internal job tasks. This enables tailored workflow management based on the unique needs of each...
Running Time Lock
Last Updated: March 7, 2025The Running Time Lock secures your production plan’s upcoming work to prevent last-minute alterations. For example, you can set the Running Time Lock for the next four hours, during which the scheduled tasks within that timeframe will remain fixed and won’t be changed, moved, or switched. To use the Running Time Lock feature: This feature...
How to Delete a Workstation Group in the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 9, 2025If you need to delete a workstation group in the GANTT Timeline: Now, you, the workstation group, won’t appear on the list of workstations anymore. Remember that your workstations will still be in the GANTT Timeline. They will just not be grouped.
How to Create a Workstation Group in the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 9, 2025If you need to create a workstation group in the GANTT Timeline: Now, you will see this group on your workstation menu.
How to hide Workstations in GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 9, 2025For hiding a workstation in the GANTT Timeline:
How to show all the Workstations in GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 9, 2025To see all the workstations in the GANTT Timeline:
Workstations on the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: February 18, 2025On the left side of the GANTT timeline, you can find lanes that are production resources (they can be workstations, people, or machines). In each of these lanes, a stage of the process steps of an order is carried out according to the available capacity. Each production resource has its unique queue of jobs.
Job Details in the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 9, 2025You can learn more about each job by right-clicking and selecting “Job details.” on a specific order. Here, you can see more information about the items, the process steps, the number of pieces completed, the amount of defective pieces, instructions for this step, and more. On top, we have the option “Show material.” By switching...
How to see the Job Flow on the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: February 18, 2025On the GANTT Timeline, seeing a job’s flow process is straightforward. Just click on the job. You will notice the arrows that indicate all the process steps that need to be done and at what time. You can do this in every single job scheduled. Remember that, if a job needs to continue the next...
Jobs on my GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 9, 2025The jobs scheduled are shown in dark boxes in each workstation. These jobs can have different statuses: Jobs Statuses
Blue Capacity on the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: February 18, 2025When a person in charge of a workstation is on sick leave or any other reason of absence, the color of the capacity will show as blue on the GANTT Timeline.
Red Capacity on the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: February 18, 2025When a production resource is under maintenance or not available for other reasons, its capacity will appear in red on the GANTT Timeline, as in the image below.
Capacity on the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: February 18, 2025The capacity is the machine’s availability to work on a process step of an order item. It is shown in the timeline in light green on each workstation.
Zoom in and Zoom out
Last Updated: February 18, 2025You can zoom in on your timeline by clicking ALT + wheel mouse for a more specific view of your job. Using the same method, you can also zoom out for a more panoramic view of your weekly production processes.
Current time on the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: February 18, 2025The orange line shows the present time. Here, you can see which jobs are running in which production resource.
Search function on GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 10, 2025On top, there is also the search feature. You can find planned jobs by their job number and view them easily in the timeline.
Unschedule an order item from the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 9, 2025If you need to unscheduled an order item from the GANTT Timeline: Now, that job won’t appear anymore on the GANTT Timeline. To find this order again, click the Unscheduled Tab on the bottom left of the GANTT Timeline. If you don’t want to reschedule this job, remember to click the King Button to reschedule...
What is and how to use the Bulldozer feature
Last Updated: February 20, 2025The Bulldozer is an excellent tool when you want to maintain the order and strategic planning of your production line in changing conditions. This feature lets you push all jobs that are in production to the current date and time. This ensures you never have uncompleted tasks scheduled in the past but only in the...
Add a quick note to a production process step
Last Updated: February 17, 2025Quick notes can be small messages that help operators communicate more effectively and precisely about certain work events—for example, notifying them that a part must be replaced or must undergo maintenance soon. To add a quick note: A new window will appear; add the message you want. Then click Save. Now, that process step has...
Unschedule an order item from the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 9, 2025If you need to unscheduled an order item from the GANTT Timeline: If you don’t want to reschedule this job, remember to click the King Button to reschedule your production optimally.
Introduction to SkyPlanner’s GANTT Timelime
Last Updated: March 12, 2025SkyPlanner’s GANTT Timeline is a user-friendly tool that makes it easy to visualize and manage project schedules. This basic tutorial will introduce you to the timeline’s resources and fundamental concepts and show you how this core feature works. It focuses only on basic aspects of the GANTT Timeline and does not cover all features. Our...