Which machines are loaded right now?
Your whiteboard was updated this morning. Two rush orders came in this afternoon. Now nobody knows the real schedule.
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Stop Scheduling Your Shop on a Whiteboard.
Visual Machine Scheduler replaces Excel spreadsheets and magnetic whiteboards with a drag-and-drop Gantt board that enforces finite capacity, detects scheduling conflicts in real time, and loads your existing jobs from CSV in under 30 minutes.
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- Import from Excel in under 30 minutes
- No ERP required
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Join the WaitlistMost Job Shops Are Running Blind.
If you can't answer these questions right now, you're operating in a scheduling blind spot that's costing your shop real money.
Are any jobs going to miss their due date?
You find out jobs are late when the customer calls — not when you still have time to prevent it.
Which machine has capacity for a rush order?
Figuring this out takes 20 minutes and three phone calls to the shop floor. You either lose the order or commit to a date you can't keep.
What's your on-time delivery rate this month?
You know it's bad. You just don't know how bad — because counting jobs from the whiteboard takes the rest of the afternoon.
The average $2M job shop loses $128,000–$276,000 per year to scheduling inefficiency — missed due dates, unplanned downtime, emergency overtime, and reactive firefighting.
That's 30–65× the annual cost of a Visual Machine Scheduler Professional subscription.
Source: Qlector 2025, Arda Cards 2026, industry benchmarks — see our full analysis.
A Scheduling Board That Thinks Like a Production Manager.
Finite Capacity, Always
Every machine, every shift, every operation — the board enforces capacity limits so you can't double-book a machine even by accident. Conflicts surface at assignment time, not after they hit the floor.
Drag-and-Drop in Seconds
When a machine breaks down or a rush order arrives, drag the affected jobs to available windows. The board recalculates due-date status instantly. What used to take two hours takes five minutes.
Your Jobs, Day One
Import your existing Excel schedule via CSV. Your machines, your jobs, your operators — on a live Gantt board in under 30 minutes. No ERP migration, no consultant, no project plan.
Everything Your Whiteboard Can't Do.
See Your Entire Shop Floor at Once
The Gantt board shows every machine as a row and every scheduled operation as a color-coded block. Day, Week, or Month view. Zoom preference saved between sessions. Due-date color coding — green, amber, and red — updated instantly when you drag any block to a new position.
Catch Conflicts Before They Hit the Floor
Professional+When two operations compete for the same machine window, a real-time alert fires with the specific job numbers, machine name, and overlapping time. You resolve it in seconds — not after a missed deadline triggers a customer call.
Your Excel Schedule, Imported in Minutes
Upload your existing job list as a CSV. The importer validates every row and returns a per-row error report for anything that fails — but valid rows import immediately, so a formatting issue in two rows doesn't block 198 others.
Print and Post the Day's Schedule
Generate a printable PDF for any machine for any day — job number, customer, operation, estimated hours, and unscheduled gaps. Posted at each station by the start of shift. Professional tier and above: your logo, no watermark.
Know Which Machines Are Bottlenecks
Professional+Available hours vs. scheduled hours vs. actual completion per machine per week, over a rolling four-week trend. If VMC-3 is running at 91% scheduled utilization, you see it Monday morning — not Friday afternoon when it causes a miss.
A Number You Can Actually Report
Professional+Jobs completed on or before due date vs. late, over rolling 30, 60, and 90-day windows. By customer. Exportable as a branded PDF. The metric your customers are starting to require as a condition of contract renewal.
From Whiteboard to Gantt Board in 30 Minutes.
Add Your Machines
Register every machine on your shop floor — name, type, shift hours. Takes 5 minutes for a 20-machine shop.
Import Your Jobs
Upload your existing Excel schedule as a CSV. The importer handles the rest. Your jobs appear as draggable blocks on the Gantt board.
Schedule and Ship
Drag blocks to resolve conflicts. Print the daily PDF for the shop floor. Track on-time delivery without counting rows on a whiteboard.
How Much Is Manual Scheduling Costing Your Shop?
A $2M job shop with one production manager spending 4 hours per week on manual schedule maintenance loses an estimated $128,000–$276,000 per year. Calculate your shop's specific number in under 2 minutes.
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Start with a Template. Scale to the Full Platform.
Not ready to commit to a subscription? Our Excel and PDF templates let you implement scheduling best practices today — with upgrade paths to the live SaaS tool built into every file.
Machine Utilization & OEE Tracker
Track available vs. scheduled vs. actual hours per machine. Calculate OEE components with auto-populated formulas.
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Production Scheduling Gantt Template
A purpose-built Excel Gantt for job shops with up to 20 machines and 50 concurrent jobs. Color-coded by due-date status.
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Machine Capacity Planning Workbook
Quantify your exact capacity exposure before committing to new orders. Shift-aware, machine-specific, formula-driven.
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Straightforward Pricing. No Per-Seat Surprises.
Essentials
$199/mo
For small job shops with up to 10 machines.
- Up to 10 machines, 50 active jobs, 3 users
- Gantt board, CSV import, finite capacity enforcement
- Daily schedule PDF, due-date color coding
Professional
$349/mo
For growing shops running 2 shifts on up to 25 machines.
- Up to 25 machines, 200 active jobs, 10 users
- Drag-and-drop rescheduling, conflict detection
- Machine utilization report, OTD report, branded PDFs
Business
$599/mo
For mid-size manufacturers running multiple shifts.
- Up to 75 machines, unlimited jobs, 25 users
- Multi-shift scheduling, OEE dashboard, API access
Enterprise
$1,199/mo
For large contract manufacturers.
- Unlimited machines, jobs, and users
- SSO/SAML, custom report fields, dedicated success manager
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