Production scheduling for machine shops

The pain

Every machine is a bottleneck on a different day. Jobs pile up behind the one CNC that can hold the tolerance, material shows up late, and the schedule the office printed is wrong by mid-morning.

How Pacer Production Scheduler helps

• Finite capacity — one job per machine at a time, so the plan is always achievable.
• Material-aware placement — a job isn’t scheduled until its stock is actually available.
• Changeover-smart sequencing — sequence-dependent setup times cut wasted setup between jobs.

The payoff

A schedule your machinists can actually follow, fewer surprises at the material crib, and less time spent re-planning the day by hand. Because Pacer Production Scheduler runs inside Business Central, there’s nothing new to log into — the plan lives where the work already does.