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Your First 30 Days as a Job Shop Production Manager: A Scheduling Roadmap

If you're a new production manager at a job shop, you've inherited a scheduling system someone else built. Day 1 is about understanding it. Day 30 is …

Rovaryn DigitalJune 1, 2026

Industry & Regional Guides

Long-Cycle Job Scheduling for Mold & Die Shops: The 12-Week Build Problem

Mold and die shops are the longest-cycle work in machining. A single program can occupy a machining center for 6–14 weeks. Scheduling that is a fundam…

Rovaryn DigitalJune 1, 2026

Industry & Regional Guides

Scheduling a General Job Shop: When You Have 50 Customers and No Two Are Alike

The general job shop is the hardest scheduling problem in manufacturing. Not because of volume but because of variability — every customer ships diffe…

Rovaryn DigitalJune 1, 2026