Scheduling software built for the way job shops really run

Most scheduling tools assume repeatable runs and stable demand. A job shop has neither. Every job is a little different, rush work lands mid-week, a machine goes down, and the plan you built on Monday is wrong by Tuesday morning.

• Due dates get promised without a real view of the load on the floor.
• A whiteboard or a spreadsheet is kept up to date by hand, usually by one person.
• When one job slips, there is no quick way to see what else it pushes back.

Not every work center needs the same treatment, either. Our guide, Which scheduler does your shop need?, makes the case that most shops do best scheduling tightly at the bottleneck and planning everywhere else on lead times. If you are weighing the two approaches, infinite vs finite scheduling covers the trade-off in plain terms.

Tangle shows the load on each machine and department against its hours, as a visual board you can group by project, department or stage, in day, week or month views. Overloads and conflicts are flagged, so you can schedule tightly where the shop is actually constrained.

• Drag a job to a new slot and watch the load on every machine update before you commit.
• When the day changes, a late material, a hot job or a breakdown, Tangle flags the conflicts and suggests the next open slot, and you decide what moves. You stay in charge of the board.
• Resource views show hours loaded against hours available for each department and machine.

The Schedule Assistant is the part most shops notice first. It reads the schedule and tells you where the trouble is, in plain language. Nobody has to stare at a Gantt chart to find it.

• It finds bottlenecks, with a message such as "Assembly is overloaded by 81 hours" (an example from the product demo).
• It flags late and at-risk work, plus dependency conflicts where one operation is scheduled before the one it depends on.
• It writes a foreman shift brief from the day's schedule, so the handover at the start of a shift starts from the same page.

Shops schedule differently, and the way you schedule changes over time. With Milo, Tangle's built-in AI engineer, you describe how you want the scheduling views and rules to work for your shop. Milo builds the change in a sandbox, you preview it, and it is applied once someone on your team approves it. Every request is tracked on a board, so you can see what was asked for and what went live.

Scheduling in Tangle is part of the same ERP as your quoting, work orders, inventory and purchasing. The schedule runs on the same jobs and work orders as the rest of the shop; there is no separate scheduling tool to reconcile, and nobody types the same job in twice. If your shop runs mixed job work or fabrication, see job shop ERP and metal fabrication ERP.

Our prices are on our website, by user type, so you can work out what Tangle would cost your shop before you talk to anyone. The core migration and setup work needed to get live is normally included in that price, with no separate services bill for the basics, and we support running your old system in parallel until you are ready to switch.