Production Scheduling & Shop Floor — the main screen
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1. THE SCHEDULING BOARD — VISUAL, DRAG-AND-DROP PLANNING
Production → Schedule lays out open Work Orders as cards on a Kanban-style board, grouped into status columns. Moving an order along is as simple as dragging its card from one column to the next — the order's status updates immediately, no form to fill out. It's a deliberately visual, at-a-glance way to see your whole production queue and move things through the pipeline, instead of editing a status dropdown on each order one at a time.
2. THE SHOP FLOOR VIEW — BUILT FOR THE FLOOR, NOT THE OFFICE
Production → Shop Floor is a separate, simplified, operator-facing screen showing active orders — built to be pulled up on a shop-floor terminal or tablet, not handed to office or planning staff. It's intentionally stripped down: workers see what's active and what needs attention, without the full administrative controls a planner needs.
3. THE WORK SHEET — TASK-LEVEL TRACKING
Production → Work Sheet tracks progress at a finer grain than the order itself: Not Started, In Progress, Finished, or Not Finished status per task, filterable by Order No, Product, Location, Worker, and quantity — useful for supervisors who need to know not just "is this order done" but "who's working on what, right now."
Work Sheet task status
Side exits: Not Finished
4. HOW IT CONNECTS TO THE REST OF THE SYSTEM
- Production Work Orders — every card on the scheduling board and every row on the shop floor view is a live Work Order; moving a card updates the exact same order record used everywhere else in Production.
- Demand Planning — new Work Orders created from a demand plan appear on the scheduling board immediately, ready to be assigned and tracked.
- Batch/Lot Tracking & QC — as orders progress through scheduling, their eventual receipt and batch/QC steps are what this board is ultimately tracking toward.
5. WHY IT SCALES FROM SMB TO ENTERPRISE
Small producer
Just the Kanban board gives you a clear, visual queue without any setup at all.
Growing operation
A dedicated shop-floor view means workers can see what's active without you handing them the full planning interface.
Enterprise
Worker-level task tracking on the Work Sheet gives supervisors real visibility into who's assigned to what across a much larger production team.
Quick Reference
Scheduling board (Kanban) ................ Production > Schedule Shop Floor view .......................... Production > Shop Floor Work Sheet (task tracking) ............... Production > Work Sheet