Manufacturing Scheduling Software for the Real Shop Floor
From Amish furniture makers to the world's largest aircraft carrier. Scheduling that handles the complexity, volatility, and scale of real manufacturing — not theoretical capacity.
Proven across manufacturing types
Job Shops
Technical Glass Products
Defense
USS Nimitz, BAE Systems
Electronics
Enevate, Kyocera
Heavy Equipment
Cummins, GE Railcar
Consumer Goods
Sleepmaster, Plastilite
Why Manufacturing Scheduling Is So Hard
Manufacturing scheduling is not a planning exercise — it is an operational discipline that must account for machine availability, labor skills, material lead times, tooling constraints, and constantly shifting priorities. Most software treats it as the former, producing schedules that fail on the shop floor.
- Constant priority changes from rush orders and customer reschedules
- Machine downtime and maintenance disrupting planned schedules
- Skilled labor shortages making machine-only scheduling useless
- Complex routings with alternate workcenters and split operations
- ERP systems producing schedules disconnected from shop floor reality
- No visibility into what is actually achievable this week
RMDB: Built for the Manufacturing Shop Floor
RMDB gives manufacturers a scheduling system that matches the complexity of their operations. It handles discrete and batch manufacturing, complex routings, alternate workcenters, split operations, and multi-constraint scheduling — all while remaining flexible enough to reconfigure on-the-fly when priorities change.
- Finite capacity scheduling across machines, labor, materials, and tooling
- Complex routing management with alternate workcenters
- On-the-fly schedule reconfiguration when priorities change
- Discrete, batch, and mixed-mode manufacturing support
- Interactive Gantt charts with drag-and-drop (via EDGEBI)
- Forward and reverse scheduling with priority management
- Downtime and maintenance window scheduling
- Sub-assembly scheduling up to 10 levels deep
- What-if scenario analysis for new orders and capacity
- Works standalone or as an ERP scheduling add-on
“The Resource Manager-DB solution has once again exceeded our expectations regarding its adaptability. The result was our substantially increasing production capacity with existing resources. RMDB, along with our cross-trained workforce gives us a competitive advantage to quickly respond to new market conditions.”
Scott McNeill, Production Scheduler
Technical Glass Products
Manufacturing Scheduling Results
40→2 hrs
Weekly scheduling time reduced by 95% for the production scheduler
Homestead Furniture
4%
Business capacity increase with existing resources and workforce
Technical Glass Products
3 Depts
Coordinated under one common computerized production schedule
Kyocera Industrial Ceramics
1 Week
From start to complete optimized schedule with full ERP integration
Plastilite Corporation
Frequently Asked Questions
Manufacturing Scheduling Success Stories
See how manufacturers transformed their shop floor scheduling with RMDB.
Transportation
Repair Shops Triple On-Time Shipping from 30% to 90%
GE Railcar Services
Read storyDefense
Finite Capacity Scheduling of USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier
US Navy
Read storyElectronics
Li-Ion Battery Production Scheduling for Enevate
Enevate Corporation
Read storyConsumer Products
Affordable MRP for Smaller Manufacturer
Sleepmaster Ltd
Read storyWoodworking
Amish Manufacturer Rapidly Amortizes Scheduling System
Homestead Furniture
Read storyGlass Manufacturing
Job Shop Increases Throughput and On-Time Shipping
Technical Glass Products
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