Bellows Pilot · Phase 1 Active

Set The
Cadence.
Ship On Time.

Quogen Cadence is the AI-native production scheduler built for US mid-market manufacturers. OR-Tools CP-SAT constraint solver. Natural language rule deployment in under 2 hours. No ERP replacement required.

72%→90%
OTD target at bellows pilot
<60s
Schedule generation time
<2hrs
NL → deployed rule
CADENCE — LIVE SCHEDULE · WK 13
RESOURCE
MON
TUE
WED
THU
FRI
MON
TUE
WED
THU
FRI
Hydraulic Press #1
Furnace A (Batch)
Batch BX-44 · Furnace full Thu 14:00
→ Constraint: C-03 batch capacity
Welder (TIG cert)
QA Inspector
CNC Lathe #2
SCHEDULE OPTIMAL · OTD 91.4%
↑ 19.4% vs manual baseline
SOLVE 47s · 84 JOBS · 12 MACHINES

Manufacturing Runs on
Guesswork.

28,000 US manufacturers with 50–500 employees collectively schedule billions in production value using spreadsheets and gut instinct. Enterprise APS costs $500K+ to deploy and months to customise. Mid-market manufacturers are locked out — not because the technology doesn't exist, but because no one has built it for them.

CFO
Free cash flow trapped in WIP
ROI on capacity investments is invisible. Scheduling decisions cost real money — nobody can see it.
VP of Sales
Delivery promises break before they ship
Quoting from infinite capacity assumptions in the ERP. The date is wrong before the quote leaves the building.
Plant Manager
72% OTD. Every week starts with fire-fighting
Spreadsheet schedules break the moment reality diverges from plan. There is no recovery mechanism.
Production Planner
3–5 hours to build one weekly schedule
Batch tools cannot react to real-time variability. The schedule is obsolete before the shift starts.

Five Things No Other APS Offers

Cadence isn't a re-skin of 1990s scheduling logic. It's constraint intelligence built from the ground up.

OR-Tools CP-SAT Constraint Engine
15 manufacturing constraints — joint multi-resource coupling, sequence-dependent setup optimisation, true batch scheduling, preemption with cost/benefit confirmation, quality gate enforcement. Same solver technology Google uses for logistics. Solves 100-job, 20-machine schedules in under 60 seconds.
Phase 1 — Live at Pilot
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Natural Language Rule Deployment
Type a scheduling rule in plain English. Cadence's AI development pipeline generates the constraint code, tests it in an isolated sandbox, and deploys it to your live scheduler — all in under 2 hours. No consultants. No tickets. No $50,000 professional services engagement.
Confirmed research-stage at all competitors
🔍
Per-Operation Delay Explanations
Hover any delayed operation on the Gantt: "Welder Jones is scheduled on Job SO-1038 until 14:00 — next TIG-certified welder is Smith starting at 13:30. Constraint: C-04 skill availability." Not a dashboard metric. The exact reason, the exact resource, on every single operation.
No competitor has this at the operation level
🪞
Shadow Mode & Authority Transfer
Before going live, Cadence runs alongside your manual schedule for at least 10 working days. Both are scored against actual outcomes. Your planner sees the comparison before they commit. A five-stage authority transfer protocol moves from Advisory to Autonomous at the planner's pace, not ours.
The reason APS deployments succeed instead of fail
Capable to Promise API
Sales rep takes an order. Queries Cadence. In 15 seconds: a constraint-verified delivery date based on actual machine loading, material availability, and current queue. Integrates directly into Paperless Parts, Salesforce, and Epicor. No more quoting infinite capacity.
VP Sales use case — connects scheduling to revenue
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Datanomix Real-Time Integration
Machine breaks down. Datanomix detects it. Cadence rescheduling engine fires automatically. Updated schedule live in 60 seconds. No planner intervention. No phone call to IT. The schedule responds to the shop floor — not the other way around.
Phase 1.5 — Months 4–8

Sits Atop Your ERP.
Doesn't Replace It.

Cadence is the system of intelligence; your ERP remains the system of record. You get scheduling superpowers without touching your existing stack.

01
Extract
Cadence pulls order status, BOMs, routings, and resource availability from your ERP. Connectors for QuickBooks, Epicor, Sage, NetSuite, SAP B1. CSV import available on day one.
PULL: jobs · work_centres · BOMs
02
Optimise
OR-Tools CP-SAT applies all 15 constraints simultaneously. Minimises tardiness, setup time, WIP idle time, and energy cost. Returns the provably best schedule within your parameters.
SOLVE: <60s · 15 constraints
03
Return
Scheduled dates written back to your ERP. Shop floor executes from a single source of truth. Planner reviews exceptions, not the entire schedule. Reschedules on disruption in real-time.
PUSH: scheduled_dates · status

The Gap We're
Built to Fill

Enterprise APS tools are powerful but cost $500K+ and take months to customise. Lightweight schedulers are affordable but lack the constraint depth real manufacturing needs. Cadence is the first product that delivers both.

Cadence Siemens Opcenter PlanetTogether TACTIC MRPeasy
OR-Tools quality solver partial
Cloud SaaS — no on-premise partial
NL rule deployment <2 hours
Per-constraint delay explanations
Shadow mode / trust protocol
CTP / Capable to Promise API partial
True batch scheduling
Energy-aware scheduling Phase 3
Mid-market pricing
Weeks to onboard (not months) partial
Bellows Manufacturing Pilot — Active

The Proof Point.

Our bellows manufacturing pilot is the stress test every APS tool should face: sequence-dependent die changeovers, furnace batch heat treatment, joint multi-resource welding cells, and hard quality gate enforcement. If Cadence handles bellows, it handles 80% of US precision fabrication.

72%
90%+
OTD Target
3–5 hrs
<15m
Schedule Time
Baseline
−25%
WIP Target

Enterprise Intelligence. Mid-Market Price.

Per-facility SaaS pricing. No per-user licences. No implementation surprises. Cancel anytime.

Foundry
$2,000
per facility / month · annual
  • OR-Tools CP-SAT scheduler
  • Up to 10 work centres
  • Interactive Gantt + overrides
  • Constraint explanations
  • Shadow mode comparison
  • CSV import + REST API
  • Email support
Start with Foundry
Platform
$8,000+
per facility / month · annual
  • Everything in Forge
  • Multi-plant scheduling
  • Long-range capacity planning
  • S&OP executive reporting
  • Energy-aware scheduling
  • SLA + uptime guarantees
  • Named account manager
Talk to Sales

All plans include onboarding playbook, routing template library, and 30-day money-back guarantee. Pricing based on facility count — not seat count.