Gantt Timeline
Introduction to SkyPlanner’s GANTT Timelime
Last Updated: March 20, 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...
Jobs on the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: April 3, 2025Jobs can appear in different colors within the GANTT timeline in SkyPlanner, representing different statuses. By default, these are the colors SkyPlanner uses. Jobs Statuses How to customize Job colors on the GANTT Timeline Now, you can see the different categories and change the task colors.
How to Unschedule Orders in the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 20, 2025If an order gets canceled—or if you need to make changes for any reason—unscheduling in SkyPlanner is quick and easy. In this video, you’ll learn how to unschedule tasks in SkyPlanner so you can make changes, update plans, or reassign work without confusion. Whether you’re rescheduling a single job or making larger adjustments, SkyPlanner makes...
How to move a job to another workstation
Last Updated: April 9, 2025SkyPlanner will consider the priorities you have set in Global Rules, but there are situations in which a production planner can decide that a job is better if it is done elsewhere than the one proposed by the AI. When you want to move a job to another workstation: Now your job is overlapping with...
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 get an Order’s task list.
Last Updated: April 8, 2025The GANTT Timeline is a great visual representation of your workflow, but a task link can also be beneficial. To get an order’s specific task list: Here, you will see a list of the process steps in which workstation, the start and the end of each task is scheduled, and the duration that will manufacture...
How to edit a job in the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 27, 2025Last-minute changes are common in production scheduling. One job needs to be in a specific workstation or add a new one; you need to divide this job across multiple workstations, or you decide to adjust the setting time or minimum degree of manufacturing. To achieve this: Do not forget to click on Schedule to production...
How to Unschedule all my jobs from my GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 20, 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.
How to change the priority to a specific Order
Last Updated: April 8, 2025There are situations in which one order could have a certain amount of priority among the other jobs we have scheduled. In SkyPlanner’s dynamic priorities feature, you can decide how important this factor is so the AI can plan accordingly, but… How do we add priority to specific orders? Now, this specific order has a...
How to prohibit changes in an Order
Last Updated: April 9, 2025If you want to prohibit changes in the process steps of an order: By default, SkyPlanner shows locked jobs in a salmon color.
How to use the Running timelock in one specific workstation
Last Updated: April 10, 2025The Running Timelock is a feature prohibiting changes in a defined time interval in workstations. We have seen how this feature works by using Global Rules and how this applies to all workstations. Nevertheless, you can also apply this feature to only ONE specific workstation. If you check on the GANTT Timeline, the jobs that...
How to add JIT Philosophy in one specific Order
Last Updated: April 9, 2025There are manufacturing companies that work with a Hybrid Philosophy (Just in Time and ASAP) So, how do I select which jobs go to ASAP and which ones to JIT? In this example, we will teach you how to change one order into JIT. By default, in SkyPlanner, all jobs are scheduled using the ASAP...
Dynamic priorities
Last Updated: April 14, 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...
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...
How to split Jobs across multiple Workstations
Last Updated: March 19, 2025In manufacturing, dividing complex tasks across multiple workstations can enhance efficiency. SkyPlanner’s AI, Arcturus, intelligently manages this by considering dynamic priorities and the specific requirements of each job. Dynamic Priorities Influence Job Splitting Arcturus evaluates the priorities you’ve set within SkyPlanner to determine the optimal approach to splitting jobs. This ensures that critical tasks receive...
What is and how to use the Bulldozer feature
Last Updated: March 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: March 20, 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.
How to create Workstation Groups
Last Updated: March 19, 2025Workstation groups help you stay organized—especially when your company has a lot of workstations to manage. In this video, you’ll learn how grouping workstations in SkyPlanner makes scheduling easier and more efficient. It’s a simple way to keep your production floor organized and running smoothly, no matter how big your operation is.
What are Ghost Jobs?
Last Updated: March 31, 2025Ghost Jobs in SkyPlanner is a representation of your workflow scheduling before the new rescheduling. These Ghost Jobs are represented in white, while the new schedule is in blue and waiting to be approved. Ghost jobs are an excellent option when comparing plans; this visual aid can help you make better decisions. Note: This setting...
How to activate Ghost Jobs in SkyPlanner
Last Updated: April 1, 2025Ghost jobs is a feature that lets you see how your production planning was before the new optimal draft. This feature is not active by default in the trial, but you can easily change that:
How to activate Show person in running jobs
Last Updated: April 1, 2025Show person in running jobs is a setting that lets you see who is taking care of a running job (or who started it) in the GANTT Timeline. This setting is inactive in the trial, but you can easily enable it. To do this:
How to highlight Late Jobs
Last Updated: March 27, 2025SkyPlanner has an interface that helps you categorize jobs by different types, including late jobs. To activate this feature: Now, your late jobs will appear in the color you selected on the GANTT timeline.
How to change the color of a Job Prospect
Last Updated: March 27, 2025It is essential to tell the difference between prospects and approved jobs. In SkyPlanner, changing the color in the GANTT timeline is very easy. This helps you make better planning decisions. To change the color of a prospect: Now, all your prospects will appear in the timeline with the color you selected.
How to hide a single Workstation in the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: March 27, 2025In large factories with dozens (or hundreds) of workstations, hiding ones that aren’t actively being scheduled (like seasonal or specialty machines) can clean up the GANTT view and make it easier to focus. In SkyPlanner, you can hide a group of workstations or even just a single workstation. To hide a single workstation: Now, your...
How to Reschedule only a specific Workstation
Last Updated: March 27, 2025Last-minute changes, equipment failures, and reduced capacity are common challenges in manufacturing, making the ability to reschedule essential. In SkyPlanner, you can reschedule all your workstations with only one click; however, the software also has the option to reschedule a single workstation if the situation arises. To do this:
How to activate the Automized Reschedule
Last Updated: April 8, 2025When you become a SkyPlanner premium member, you can edit the Automated Reschedule. The Automated Reschedule is a feature that updates the production schedule after a specific time has passed. To activate or edit this feature: Note: When the clock icon appears, the automated reschedule is off.
Turn off Combine overlapping capacities
Last Updated: April 8, 2025In SkyPlanner you can customize how you want to see your GANTT Timeline. Combine overlapping capacities allow you to see one capacity per day instead of the different shifts you have per day. This is set as default in the trial. If, on the other hand, you wish to view the different work shifts within...
How to activate Workstation Capacity graph in the GANTT Timeline
Last Updated: April 14, 2025By default, SkyPlanner doesn’t have activated the Workstation Capacity graph in the GANTT Timeline. If you wish to activate it: Now you will be able to see this option in the footer of your GANTT Timeline.
How to see a Workstation Capacity graph
Last Updated: April 14, 2025If you wish to see the Workstation capacity graph in the Gantt Timeline: Now, at the bottom, you will see the capacity graph for this workstation. You can see the capacity for up to 8 weeks. Learn how to add a Workstation capacity graph in the GANTT Timeline.