Machining, laser and fabrication, and tool-room job shops plan on cycle time, not a whiteboard. Fast Planning Software builds a process sheet with standard cycle and setting times, loads each machine to finite capacity with live % loading, schedules work orders by priority on a DayPilot Gantt, and books shop-floor time by barcode — then reports machine and operator efficiency and OEE. Cloud or on-premise, for manufacturers across India and worldwide.
The week is planned on a whiteboard or in Excel. Nobody can see the real load on each machine, so hot jobs collide on the same spindle while other machines sit idle between them.
No standard cycle or setting time is captured against an operation, so you can't cost a job, load a machine or promise a customer a delivery date that stands up.
Operators note start and stop times on a paper card that reaches the office days later. Actual versus planned is always stale, and OK versus Not-OK output is guessed at month-end.
Machine and operator efficiency, idle time and rework are invisible. Utilization never improves, breakdowns are never costed, and there is no honest plan-versus-actual to learn from.
Fast Planning Software models the way a machine shop actually plans job work — order, process sheet, machine loading, schedule, barcode booking and efficiency — on the same platform, BOM and stock that Fast Production and Fast Inventory use.
Fast Planning Software carries a machine-shop job through the full planning cycle — the finite-capacity discipline a serious job shop needs, without the whiteboard and the paper time cards.
A machined or fabricated part passes through turning, milling, drilling, laser or grinding — each at its own machine. Fast Planning Software holds a master process sheet per item with the operation sequence, standard cost, and standard cycle and setting time on every operation, then lets you spin up an order process sheet — copy the master or a previous order, modify times, re-sequence and reassign machines. Those numbers drive loading, scheduling and cost. See process sheets & routing and MRP & BOM explosion.
Loading a machine shop by feel is how hot jobs collide and machines sit idle. Fast Planning Software takes the standard times from the process sheet and computes a Daily Machine Loading Report — the load on each machine and resource in hours and as a percentage, the load on pending work, and the projected machine or resource availability. You level work across machines before you commit, not after the customer calls. See machine loading & capacity.
When two jobs want the same machine, priority decides. Fast Planning Software sets order and project priority and resource priority, then lays work orders out on a DayPilot Gantt scheduler board as an order-wise planned schedule. A planner can see every job across every machine on one timeline, drag work to re-sequence it, and watch the knock-on effect before committing the plan. Read more about scheduling & priority (Gantt).
Actual times are only useful if they are captured as work happens. On the floor, Process Status Updation is done by scanning a shift barcode, then a machine barcode, then an operator barcode. Against that booking the operator records OK and Not-OK production, actual start and end, cycle and setting time, and the operation specification — and logs machine stoppage for breakdown or maintenance. IoT devices can capture machine start/stop and parameters too. See IoT & machine data capture.
Standard time on one side, actual time on the other — that is all it takes to measure a shop honestly. Fast Planning Software reports plan versus actual, work-centre, machine and operator utilization, daily and monthly operator efficiency, idle-time and additional-time summaries, work-centre rework and OEE, with graphical dashboards for operator efficiency, machine efficiency and idle time. Plan vs actual & OEE covers the dashboards; Dhruv AI then answers plain-English questions about load, efficiency and delay causes.
Master and order process sheets with standard cycle and setting times, operation sequencing, standard cost, and the machine assigned to each operation — copied and tuned per order.
Daily load and % loading on each machine and resource, load on pending work and projected availability, so shared machines are levelled instead of overbooked.
Order and resource priority with an order-wise planned schedule laid out on the DayPilot Gantt board, plus single and batch work-order spec and job-card printing.
Process Status Updation by scanning shift, machine and operator barcodes — OK/Not-OK, actual cycle and setting time, stoppage — with IoT machine data capture on top.
Machine and operator utilization, daily and monthly efficiency, idle time, rework and plan versus actual, with graphical dashboards for the shop floor.
Demand from orders or the sales plan explodes the BOM and nets against stock to raise work orders and purchase requisitions that feed the machine-loading plan.
Yes. The Daily Machine Loading Report shows the load on every machine or resource in hours and as a percentage, plus the load on pending work and the projected availability — so a planner can level work across machines instead of loading the shop on a whiteboard.
Every item has a master process sheet listing operations in sequence with a standard cost, standard cycle and setting time, and the machine each runs on. An order process sheet copies the master or a previous order, then lets you modify times, re-sequence and reassign machines.
Yes. Process Status Updation is done by scanning shift, then machine, then operator barcodes. Against the booking the operator records OK and Not-OK production, actual start and end, cycle and setting time, and machine stoppage for breakdown or maintenance.
Yes. Work orders are sequenced using order, project and resource priority, then laid out on a DayPilot Gantt scheduler board as an order-wise planned schedule you can drag to re-sequence and see the knock-on effect before committing.
Yes. Standard times plus actual bookings drive plan-versus-actual, work-centre, machine and operator utilization, daily and monthly efficiency, idle-time, rework and OEE — with graphical dashboards, and Dhruv AI questions on top.
Yes. Any shop running jobs across shared machines on cycle and setting times plans the same way. Fast Planning Software is a Fast Technology product built in Pune by Improsys, serving manufacturers of every kind — cloud or on-premise, across India and worldwide.
Fast Planning serves manufacturers of every kind — cloud or on-premise, across India and worldwide.
Plan production against confirmed customer orders and their exploded, per-order BOMs, from demand through work orders to a scheduled shop floor.
Learn moreCycle-time-driven capacity planning for high-volume machined parts, with tight OEE, utilization and plan-versus-actual tracking per machine.
Learn moreBatch process sheets, netting against stock and scheduling for plants that plan by batch rather than by discrete job on a machine.
Learn moreThe feature behind this page — daily load, % loading and projected machine availability, in depth.
See the featureA 30-minute demo — we build the process sheet for one of your own jobs, load it onto finite machine capacity, schedule it on the DayPilot Gantt and book it by barcode on screen. No slides, no generic walkthrough.
