Video Guides
SkyPlanner: The Basics
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Create an order and reschedule with SkyPlanner.Discover how SkyPlanner simplifies production scheduling using artificial intelligence. This video introduces the basics, showcasing how its AI-driven features make production planning easy and efficient.
How to start to use your SkyPlanner trial
Last Updated: March 19, 2025In this video, you’ll learn how to access the SkyPlanner trial and explore the features that help you schedule production with AI. Whether you’re testing it with sample data or uploading your own using the CSV import, SkyPlanner makes it simple to see how smart production scheduling works.
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...
Add Personnel, User Roles and Default Shifts
Last Updated: March 17, 2025A well-organized team keeps everything running smoothly. In any business, managing personnel efficiently is key to balancing workload and capacity. In this video, you’ll learn how to register personnel in SkyPlanner, add user roles, set up default shifts, and ensure employees are scheduled correctly, and operations stay on track.
Workstations, Capacities and Maintenance
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Learn how to set up, organize, and use your workstations in SkyPlanner.Easily manage your capacities, shifts, and maintenance. A workstation is a resource for which the AI creates its own job queue. For example, it can be a production machine, a person, or a subcontractor.Workstations appear as separate rows in SkyPlanner’s Gantt timeline.
How to add a Process Step
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Process steps play a key role in scheduling. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create a new process step, assign workstations that can perform it, and add it to a product.
Add a new Product to SkyPlanner
Last Updated: March 17, 2025A well-defined product catalog is essential for efficient production management. In this video, you’ll learn how to add a new product to SkyPlanner and define its manufacturing process steps. This ensures accurate scheduling and resource allocation, streamlining your operations.
Subitems and Production Hierarchy
Last Updated: March 17, 2025A well-structured production process depends on how smoothly its components come together. No matter how complex the hierarchy gets, SkyPlanner can handle the calculations and optimize every step to keep things running efficiently. In this video, you’ll learn how to manage subitems in SkyPlanner, making sure even the most detailed production structures stay organized.
Add a Customer
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Happy customers keep a business running—whether it’s in manufacturing, services, or any other industry. Managing them well helps avoid delays, reduces issues, and builds a strong reputation. In this video, you’ll learn how to add a new customer to SkyPlanner and set their priority level to keep everything organized and running smoothly
Managing Tools in SkyPlanner
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Learn how to assign the right tools to each product in SkyPlanner, ensuring efficiency and high-quality production. This tutorial covers key strategies for managing tool maintenance and stock levels to prevent disruptions. Plus, explore how these tools affect the GANTT Timeline and your production workflow.
Adding and managing Materials
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Effective material management is crucial for maintaining a seamless production flow. Learn how to use SkyPlanner’s advanced features that provide real-time insights into your warehouse inventory, enabling precise tracking of material quantities. By integrating material availability directly into the scheduling process, SkyPlanner ensures that production orders are aligned with stock levels, minimizing delays and enhancing...
Create Orders and Order Items
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Efficient order management is crucial for meeting customer demands and maintaining smooth operations. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create orders and order items in SkyPlanner. By mastering these features, you can streamline your production scheduling and ensure timely deliveries.
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...
Running Timelock
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Keeping a production schedule steady isn’t always easy. Last-minute changes can throw off workflows and create unnecessary stress on the shop floor. SkyPlanner’s Running Time Lock lets you lock tasks for a set period, so once a job is scheduled, it stays put. No unexpected changes, no disruptions—just a stable plan your team can rely...
JIT Manufacturing in SkyPlanner
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Just-in-Time (JIT) manufacturing is all about efficiency—getting the right materials at the right time, exactly when they’re needed in production. Originating from the Toyota Production System, this manufacturing philosophy focuses on efficiency and responsiveness to demand. Instead of stockpiling inventory, businesses using JIT reduce waste, lower costs, and keep operations running lean. In this video,...
Fast Track introduction video
Last Updated: March 17, 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.
Reduce Lead Time
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Lead time is the total time it takes to complete a process from start to finish. In manufacturing, that means the time from receiving a customer’s order to delivering the finished product. The shorter and more accurate your lead times, the smoother your operations, the lower your costs, and the happier your customers. In this...
Prioritize Completion Dates
Last Updated: March 17, 2025A completion date isn’t just a deadline—it’s a promise to your customers, but let’s face it—things don’t always go as planned, and being able to adjust completion dates isn’t just helpful—it’s necessary to keep production on track. SkyPlanner allows you to adjust completion dates dynamically—while its AI recalculates and optimizes the schedule for you. This...
How to use Minimum Degree of Manufacturing
Last Updated: April 10, 2025Minimum Degree of Manufacturing helps you speed up production without cutting corners. In this video, you’ll learn how SkyPlanner allows the next step in production to start when the previous step is partially complete. For example, packaging can begin when assembly is just 10% done—reducing wait times and making better use of your resources. This...
Job Priorities
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Job Priority is what determines the order in which tasks are executed on the production floor. Setting the right priorities ensures that critical orders are completed on time, resources are used efficiently, and workflow bottlenecks are avoided. Why does adjusting job priority matter? Picture this: a high-value customer places an urgent order, but the system...
Managing Customer Priority
Last Updated: March 20, 2025Customer priority is a way to manage which orders get scheduled first in production. In manufacturing, customer priority refers to assigning different levels of importance to customers’ orders based on various factors, such as strategic partnerships, order size, or time sensitivity. This practice ensures that critical orders receive the necessary attention to meet deadlines and...
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...
Managing Leave Times
Last Updated: March 17, 2025People need time off and planning for it keeps everything running smoothly. Whether it’s vacation, sick days, or personal leave, having a clear schedule helps avoid last-minute gaps and production slowdowns. In this video, we’ll show you how to schedule leave time in SkyPlanner. With the proper setup, you can manage absences without disrupting workflow,...
Manage Overtime
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Overtime is any extra work done beyond the standard scheduled hours. In most cases, that means working past 40 hours a week, but it can vary depending on company policies. While overtime helps meet deadlines and handle unexpected demands, managing it properly is key to avoiding burnout and controlling labor costs. With SkyPlanner, handling overtime...
Using the CSV Import
Last Updated: March 17, 2025Importing your data into SkyPlanner is straightforward with our CSV Import feature. Whether you’re trying out the platform or setting up real operations, you can quickly upload your existing data and start planning right away. In this guide, we’ll show you how to use the CSV Import step by step. And if you need deeper...
ShopFloorApp and Timer
Last Updated: March 19, 2025Tracking time on the shop floor shouldn’t slow things down—it should make work more efficient. With SkyPlanner’s ShopFloor module, employees can easily log their time on different tasks using a simple timer. Every time entry is recorded in real-time, so you always have a clear view of what’s happening on the production floor. In this...
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 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...
What is and how to manage Workstation Efficiencies
Last Updated: April 23, 2025Workstation efficiencies is a SkyPlanner feature that lets you set how well different workstations perform compared to each other. Not all machines or shifts work at the same speed, and this tool helps you reflect those real-world differences in your production schedule. For example, if you have two welding workstations and one can finish a...
Assembly Jobs (Batch Production / Nesting)
Last Updated: March 27, 2025Assembly jobs is a SkyPlanner feature that lets you combine the same process step from different orders into one job. This is useful when you can handle multiple orders at the same time using the same material or setup. For example, if you’re cutting a large sheet of wood for several orders, you can do...
What is the Quick Log Mode and how to use it
Last Updated: March 20, 2025The quick log mode is a feature in SkyPlanner that allows you to efficiently record workstation activities with minimal input. This streamlined process ensures accurate tracking of tasks, helping you maintain an up-to-date production schedule without the need for detailed data entry. Quick log mode enhances productivity and keeps your operations running smoothly by simplifying...
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...
How to calculate your SkyPlanner Pricing
Last Updated: March 19, 2025In this video, we explain SkyPlanner’s pricing model, which is based on the number of workstations in your production setup. What is a Workstation? A workstation refers to a single production resource with its own scheduled work queue, typically handling one task at a time. This could be a production machine or a specific work...