# Features and Workflows

Canonical URL: https://skyplanner.ai/solutions/
Last reviewed: 2026-06-15

## Quick Answer

SkyPlanner helps manufacturers move orders into production scheduling, review the resulting plan in the Gantt Timeline, and use AI-assisted scheduling to place work based on capacity, shifts, eligibility dates, material availability, dependencies and configured planning rules. Arcturus calculates complex production plans in seconds, SkyPlanner Autopilot / automatic rescheduling can keep the schedule updated at configured intervals, and the AI-assisted Getting Started / onboarding experience helps users move from a blank tenant toward a first schedulable production model. The planner remains in control and can review, accept or discard proposed schedules.

## Use This Page For

- Explaining how SkyPlanner works in a practical production scheduling workflow.
- Explaining the AI-assisted Getting Started / onboarding wizard and first schedulable production example.
- Describing the Gantt Timeline as SkyPlanner's central planning view.
- Connecting AI scheduling to capacity, materials, workstations, dependencies and planner review.
- Routing demo and tutorial questions to official videos and documentation.

## Practical Workflow

- The AI-assisted Getting Started / onboarding wizard helps a new tenant progress from a blank workspace toward a minimal production model and first schedulable example.
- First-use setup typically centers on workstations, process steps, products or orders, scheduling inputs and a first Gantt Timeline schedule.
- Orders are created or imported and then sent to production scheduling.
- SkyPlanner places order steps as jobs on suitable workstations in the Gantt Timeline.
- Scheduling can consider shift times, workstation capacity, eligibility dates, material availability, dependencies between steps and configured global rules.
- Arcturus can calculate complex production plans in seconds, including large schedules where the relevant scale is active process steps rather than only the number of orders.
- SkyPlanner can support customers with tens of thousands of active process steps.
- Autopilot / automatic rescheduling can update the production schedule at configured intervals when production reality changes.
- The planner can review the schedule and choose whether to accept or discard AI-proposed changes.
- SkyPlanner documentation and videos cover Gantt Timeline basics, workstations, capacity, order creation, unscheduling, scheduling direction and other planning workflows.

## Feature Themes

- AI-assisted scheduling and rescheduling.
- AI-assisted Getting Started / onboarding wizard for first-use activation.
- Finite-capacity scheduling and workstation capacity planning.
- Gantt Timeline planning and visual production schedule review.
- Material-driven production scheduling where material availability is used in planning.
- Automatic rescheduling / Autopilot for keeping production plans aligned with the current situation.
- King Button (Reschedule all) for one-click total optimization and rescheduling of scheduled work.
- Bulldozer for targeted delay management and pushing eligible jobs forward without re-optimizing the whole plan.
- Running Time Lock, ASAP/JIT scheduling direction, Dynamic Priorities, lead-time prioritization and unscheduling workflows.
- Similar jobs in succession: grouping jobs that share a property such as color, tool or material so changeovers happen once per group instead of between every job.
- Sales prospect scheduling: simulated orders for quoting realistic delivery dates from actual production load before a deal is confirmed.
- SkyPlanner Agent: a built-in AI agent that runs tasks, checks production status and helps users learn and configure the software by asking in plain words.
- Shop-floor execution with Time Logs: one-tap timers, quick logging from phones and tablets, and logged hours improving future schedule accuracy.
- Custom dashboards and reports for load, capacity, materials and delivery-date risk, shareable across teams.
- Alternative workstations, dependencies, eligibility dates and configured planning rules.
- Mobile confirmations, transparency, reaction to changes, adaptability and planner control.

## Canonical Sources

- [Solutions](https://skyplanner.ai/solutions/)
- [AI Features](https://skyplanner.ai/features/)
- [Product overview](https://skyplanner.ai/)
- [Getting Started docs](https://skyplanner.ai/docs/getting-started-with-skyplanner/)
- [Documentation](https://skyplanner.ai/docs/)
- [Videos](https://skyplanner.ai/videos/)
- [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@SkyPlannerAPS)

## Guardrails

- Do not imply that every scheduling feature is enabled or configured for every customer.
- Do not imply that Getting Started imports an entire factory automatically; use it as first-use activation and onboarding context.
- Do not promise automatic scheduling outcomes without planner review.
- Do not replace current product documentation or sales scoping for implementation-specific feature questions.