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Schedule Board — Place Production Runs in Time Without Double-Booking

Overview​

The schedule board is a timeline of your resources. Each resource has its own row, and time runs across the top. Every booking sits as a block in its slot, so you can see at a glance what's running when, where the gaps are, and whether a new job will fit. This guide shows how to read the board, how to place and move a run, and what happens when a slot is already taken.

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Availability depends on your plan and your role.

Reading the board​

  • Each row is a resource — a machine, a person or team, a facility or a tool.
  • Time runs left to right. Zoom to a day, a week or a month depending on how far ahead you're planning.
  • Each block is a booking. A block might be a production run, a set-up, maintenance, a worker's leave, or a breakdown — anything that occupies the resource.
  • Grey or closed areas are times the resource isn't available — outside its working hours, or on a holiday or shutdown from its working calendar.
  • Empty stretches inside working hours are free capacity — that's where a new job can go.

Step-by-step: place a run​

Step 1: Pick the job​

Start from the production run you want to schedule — a stage of a work order that needs time on a resource.

Step 2: Find a resource that can do it​

The board shows the resources that carry the skill the stage needs. If the stage asks for "Welding", you'll be placing it on a resource tagged with the Welding skill — you can't accidentally book it onto something that can't do the work.

Step 3: Drop it into a free slot​

Place the run into an open stretch on that resource's row, at the time you want it to run. Drag its edges to set how long it takes. As you place it, the board shows whether the slot is free.

Step 4: Save​

Confirm the booking. The block now holds that slot, and everyone reading the board sees the resource is busy then.

Moving or resizing a run​

Plans change. To move a run to a different time or a different resource, drag its block along the row or into another row. To make it longer or shorter, drag its edge. Each time you do, the board re-checks that the new slot is free before it accepts the change.

What happens when a slot is already taken​

This is the point of the board. The same resource cannot be booked for two jobs in the same slot. If you try to drop a run onto a slot that's already occupied — by another job, a maintenance block, or leave — Bizconnekt refuses it and shows the clash. Nothing is quietly overlapped, so the plan on the board is always a plan you can keep.

You then have real choices: move the new run to the next free slot, put it on another resource that has the same skill, or move the existing booking if it's less urgent.

Where you have several identical units​

If a resource is really several identical copies — say six identical moulds — the board lets that many runs share the same slot, and refuses the one after that. So six jobs can run on the moulds at once; a seventh waits, because there is no seventh mould. See the overview.

Blocking out non-production time​

Not every block is a job. To keep the board honest, record the other reasons a resource is busy as bookings too:

  • Set-up or changeover before a run starts
  • Planned maintenance or servicing
  • Leave for a worker or team
  • A breakdown, so the machine shows as unavailable until it's fixed

Because these sit on the board like any other booking, the free slots you see really are free.

Need help? Contact support at support@bizconnekt.com