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Cadence APS for job shops

A schedule that holds up when the week doesn't.

Cadence builds a finite-capacity schedule from your ERP, re-plans when something slips, and your planner approves every change.

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Option · pull JOB-4468 forward to Wednesday on WC-11, so JOB-4471 grinds Thursday.

Illustration: a work-center schedule for one week. A vendor email says heat treat for job 4471 ships two days late. The schedule re-runs and the job's grind and inspect operations slide past Friday's due date. Cadence checks a recovery, pulling job 4468 forward on the grinder, and waits. Nothing moves until the planner approves.

Illustrative example. You're the planner: nothing moves until you approve.

Your ERP has the routings. It doesn't have a schedule anyone believes.

In the shops we talk to, the real schedule lives on a whiteboard, in a spreadsheet and in the planner's head. The ERP's dates rarely account for what each machine can actually take, so they're stale by Tuesday. When a vendor slips, the re-plan happens over the phone, and nobody writes down why.

That's survivable until the planner takes a vacation.

How it works

From your routings to a schedule the floor can run.

Example

A heat-treat vendor moves a ship date by two days. Cadence ties the email to JOB-4471, re-runs the week, shows that grinding and inspection now land after Friday's due date, checks whether JOB-4468 can move forward on the grinder, and puts the option in front of the planner. Nothing moves until the planner says so.

01

Connect

One read-only route: an export or API you already have. Nothing gets written back during the pilot.

02

Model

Work centers, shifts, routings, outside processes and the rules your planner already applies become constraints you approve. Missing data gets flagged before anything is planned.

03

Schedule

A constraint solver sequences every job across every work center against the capacity you actually have, shift by shift.

04

Re-plan

When a machine goes down or a vendor slips, Cadence re-runs the schedule, flags the jobs that now miss their dates and tests the moves that would recover them. You see which constraints were checked.

05

Decide

The planner approves, adjusts or rejects. Cadence doesn't change ERP records or release work on its own.

06

Record

Who owned it, what was done, what happened next. Overrides get reviewed, and the useful ones become approved shop rules you can roll back.

Evidence and scope

When the data can't support a call, Cadence says so.

It marks the gap "insufficient evidence" and assigns someone to fill it. It won't put a made-up probability on a late delivery, and every schedule change states which constraints were actually checked.

What it doesn't do, yet.

  • ×Write to your ERP
  • ×Message vendors
  • ×Release work to the floor on its own
  • ×Plan across several sites
  • ×Compare your shop with other shops

Some of these may come later. None of them will arrive without approval controls.

Commercial job shops that schedule on a whiteboard, a spreadsheet or memory.

people, roughly
25 to 150
already in place, and staying
An ERP
in the routings: plating, heat treat, coating
Outside processing

The planner is the integration layer between the ERP, the spreadsheet and the phone.

If a configuration change in your current ERP would fix the problem, we'll tell you. That outcome is better for you than a pilot.

The pilot

One site. One workflow. One data route. Paid, and bounded.

  1. 01

    Readiness

    We confirm the data classification, hosting, sample data, buyer, champion and scope.

  2. 02

    Baseline

    We reconcile your records and measure how scheduling and re-planning work today.

  3. 03

    Shadow

    Cadence schedules alongside your planner, without changing anything on the floor.

  4. 04

    Assisted

    The planner works from Cadence's schedule with approvals switched on. We log actions, overrides and failures.

  5. 05

    Decision

    We review use, evidence and cost together, then continue, narrow the scope or stop.

We propose four to six weeks of operation once data and deployment are ready, and confirm the timetable after qualification. We set success thresholds with you once the baseline exists, not before.

Case-study permission is optional and agreed separately. It's never part of the price.

What we measure

  • Jobs shipped by their due date, before and during the pilot
  • Time from a disruption to an approved re-plan
  • Late jobs Cadence didn't flag
  • Schedule changes the planner accepted, adjusted or rejected
  • Hours the planner spends building and fixing the schedule

What planners and owners ask first.

No. Cadence reads from the ERP you run and plans on top of it. The ERP stays your system of record.

That's the idea. Cadence builds the finite-capacity schedule your planner works from and keeps it current when the week changes. During the pilot it runs beside your current method, so you can compare.

Each pilot starts with one read-only route, chosen with you after we've looked at your data. We don't claim to connect to everything.

No. Rules and a constraint solver build the schedule and decide what's feasible. AI reads updates like vendor emails, finds sources and explains options. The planner decides what happens.

Inside the boundary you approve, with private inference. No job data goes to a public AI service.

Tell us how you schedule today.

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We reply to every message ourselves. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so, and usually suggest who is.