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Manufacturing / Production Planning & Scheduling
Production Planning & Scheduling
Planners re-sequence the floor in spreadsheets because the ERP plan assumes every machine is always free. Agnotic Technologies builds production scheduling software that models your real constraints, re-plans when a machine goes down and sends the schedule to your MES for execution.
Finite capacity
Machines, tools, skills and materials modeled
Re-planning
A new schedule from the current state after a disruption
ERP and MES
Orders in, schedules out, actuals back
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Industry Overview
What is production planning and scheduling software?
Production planning and scheduling software turns customer orders and forecasts into a feasible plan for each machine, line and shift, taking capacity, changeovers, tooling, labor and material into account. Agnotic builds it to sit between your ERP and MES, so planners get schedules the floor can run and can re-plan when conditions change.
Industry Challenges
Why do ERP plans break on the floor?
Problems planners and plant managers raise when they scope production scheduling software.
Infinite-Capacity Fantasy: ERP MRP runs assume every work center is always available, planners manually adjust the output in Excel.
Sequence-Dependent Setups: Color-to-color, size-to-size, and tool changeovers vary dramatically but aren't modeled in the planning system.
Disruption Paralysis: When a machine goes down or a material is late, re-planning takes hours of manual spreadsheet work.
Siloed Planning: Production, maintenance, and quality schedules are managed in separate tools with no shared constraint model.
Our Approach
How we build the scheduler
We model the plant as it runs, not as the ERP assumes it runs.
Finite-Capacity Optimization
Constraint-based solvers model every resource, tool, operator skill, and material availability to produce feasible, optimized schedules.
Real-Time Re-Planning
When disruptions hit, the solver re-optimizes from the current state and shows planners the best recovery path.
MES & ERP Closed Loop
Schedules push to MES for execution; actuals flow back for continuous re-planning against reality.
Capabilities
What goes into the scheduler?
Capabilities we build into production planning and scheduling systems.
Finite Capacity Scheduling
Model machines, tools, operators, and materials as explicit capacity constraints.
Sequence Optimization
Minimize changeover time through intelligent product sequencing algorithms.
What-If Scenarios
Run alternative schedules and compare KPIs before committing to the floor.
Real-Time Re-Planning
Automated re-scheduling when machines go down, materials are late, or priorities shift.
Demand Integration
Pull demand signals from ERP, EDI, and customer portals for rolling-horizon planning.
Maintenance Windows
Co-schedule planned maintenance with production for minimum throughput impact.
Visual Gantt & Timeline
Interactive Gantt charts with drag-and-drop override and constraint violation warnings.
KPI Dashboards
On-time delivery, utilization, changeover time, and WIP level tracked in real time.
Multi-Plant Planning
Cross-plant capacity balancing and inter-plant transfer optimization.
How It Works
How does a schedule reach the floor?
From ERP demand to MES dispatch, and actuals back into the plan.
Demand Ingestion
ERP orders, EDI demand, and forecast signals pulled into a unified demand model.
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Constraint Model
Resources, tools, skills, materials, and changeover matrices modeled as optimization constraints.
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Solver Engine
Mixed-integer and heuristic solvers produce feasible schedules and compare them on your KPIs.
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Planner Interface
Interactive Gantt with drag-and-drop, what-if, and KPI comparison views.
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MES Integration
Schedules dispatched to MES; actuals feed back for continuous re-planning.
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Analytics & Reporting
Adherence, utilization, and delivery performance tracked across horizons.
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Engineering Stack
Technology stack
A pragmatic stack chosen for reliability, speed, and ease of operation.
Optimization
OR-ToolsGurobiOptaPlannerCustom Heuristics
Core
PythonGoTypeScriptGraphQLgRPC
Data
PostgreSQLRedisKafkaTimescaleDB
Apps
Next.jsReactD3.jsTailwind
ERP
SAP RFC/IDocOracle RESTD365 DataverseEDI X12
Infra
KubernetesVaultTerraformPrometheus
Measured Impact
What should the scheduler measure?
Measures we build reporting around, agreed with you before launch.
On-time delivery
Orders shipped by the promised date
Tracked against the schedule that was released.
Schedule adherence
Work run as planned
Planned against actual start and finish times from the MES.
Changeover time
Time lost between products
By line, product family and sequence.
Utilization
Load on constraint resources
By shift, line and plant.
Use Cases
Which production models do we support?
Common scheduling problems we design for.
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Batch Process Scheduling
Schedule reactors, ovens, and clean-in-place cycles with shared resource constraints.
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Print & Packaging Sequencing
Optimize color sequences and substrate changes to minimize wash and waste.
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Tool & Die Scheduling
Coordinate shared tooling across machines with setup and teardown windows.
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Multi-Plant Load Balancing
Distribute orders across plants based on capacity, capability, and logistics cost.
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Make-to-Order Promise
Real-time available-to-promise dates based on actual finite capacity.
Integrations
Which systems does it connect to?
We connect to the systems your teams already know.
ERP
SAP S/4HANA PP/DSOracle SCM CloudMicrosoft D365 SCM
APS
Siemens Opcenter APS
MES
Rockwell Plex
Planning
Blue Yonder
S&OP
Kinaxis RapidResponse
Compliance-First Development Services Backed by Global Standards
We build secure, scalable products designed for privacy, interoperability, and regulatory readiness from day one across every sector we serve.
Quality Management Systems
Ensuring consistent quality in software delivery and operational process optimization.
Our Edge
Why Global Leaders Choose Us
We combine deep technical expertise with industry-specific knowledge to deliver solutions that aren't just functional, but transformational.
Enterprise-Grade Security
We implement rigorous security protocols and compliance standards (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2) across all industrial solutions to protect sensitive data.
High-Performance Scaling
Our architectures are built to handle massive data loads and user bases, keeping performance steady whether you're serving ten or ten million.
Accelerated Time-to-Market
Using our suite of internal tools and proven frameworks, we cut setup work so your first release reaches users sooner.
Embedded AI Integration
Beyond simple wrappers, we build deep-learning integrations and predictive analytics directly into the core of your industry-specific workflows.
Engagement Model
How does an engagement work?
A scoping call, a fixed-scope first release, then scale and support.
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Scoping call
We map your plants, constraint resources, changeover rules, ERP and MES.
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Fixed-scope first release
Finite-capacity scheduling for one bottleneck line, with the planner board and MES dispatch working end to end.
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More lines and plants
Further lines, plants and constraints added on the same model.
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Scale and support
Our team tunes the solver and supports the integrations as products and lines change.
Facts and sources
Which standards shape the ERP and MES link?
Short facts we design around, each linked to its primary source. A scheduler sits between Level 4 planning and Level 3 operations, so these models shape its interfaces.
ISA-95, also published as ANSI/ISA-95 and IEC 62264, is an international set of standards for integrating enterprise and logistics systems with manufacturing control systems, and outlines how an enterprise can set up an interface between those layers.
Source: ISA, ISA-95 StandardThe ISA-95 model has five levels, from physical production processes at Level 0 to business planning and logistics at Level 4, with manufacturing operations management at Level 3.
Source: ISA, ISA-95 StandardISA-95 Part 2 specifies the interface content exchanged between Level 3 manufacturing systems and Level 4 business systems, and Part 3 defines activity models of manufacturing operations management.
Source: ISA, ISA-95 Standard
Voice of success
We don't just build products; we forge lasting partnerships. See how we've helped industry leaders transform their vision into technical reality.
“I can clearly see how Agnotic has a unique way of handling end-to-end development. They are always active on quick chat and provide support quickly.”
Aaron Phelan
Founder, Benchmark
“Agnotic combines deep technical expertise with strong domain knowledge. They understand the business context, anticipate challenges, and make collaboration smooth and effective.”
John Pasmore
Founder, Latimer
“Agnotic is the best technical team we evaluated. Their engineering excellence made our work dramatically easier and allowed us to stay focused on what matters most for maternal care outcomes. They took full ownership of the technical execution, and we are always happy to continue working together.”
Kim Smith
Founder, My Lauren
Related pages
Where to go next
Pages for the manufacturing software around a production scheduler.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. SAP PP/DS is SAP's production planning and detailed scheduling module. Where you run it, our scheduler can sit alongside SAP, pulling demand and pushing schedules back, and model constraints such as sequence-dependent setups and shared tooling in the detail your plant needs.
Yes. The Gantt interface supports drag-and-drop overrides with real-time constraint violation warnings. Planners stay in control: the solver handles the heavy lifting.
The solver runs incrementally. When a machine goes down or material is late, we re-optimize from the current state, preserving as much of the existing schedule as possible while resolving the disruption.
It depends on how many plants and constraint resources you model, how clean your routing and changeover data is, and how deep the ERP and MES integration goes. We set the scope of the first release on the scoping call, then plan the rest with you.
Yes. We connect to your ERP for orders, routings and material availability, and to your MES for dispatch and actuals, through the interfaces those systems already offer. ISA-95 object models guide how we map the data between them.
Yes. A first release covers one workflow, such as finite-capacity scheduling for the bottleneck line in one plant, with the planner board and MES dispatch working end to end. More lines, plants and constraints follow.
A packaged scheduling tool fits plants whose constraints match the product's model. Custom scheduling makes sense when your setups, tooling or material rules are unusual, or when the scheduler must fit a specific mix of ERP and MES. Agnotic builds it for you around your constraints.
AI tools help our engineers draft code and tests, but a person reviews every change, and it passes the same automated tests and security checks as any other code. Which tools may see your code or data is agreed with you at the start.
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