Workshop Planner : Orchestrate Cutting Machine Workloads

Stop losing track of what’s happening in your shop workshop

You have optimized your raw material usage and programmed your machines with Almacam 2D Cut. Now, it is time to optimize your machine scheduling. Who is cutting what, on which machine, and when. These questions shouldn’t require chasing people or checking clipboards. The Almacam Scheduler gives you the full picture: jobs waiting to be assigned, machines running at capacity, moments of unavailabilities planned ahead. Everything in one place, always up to date.

One solution to plan all your 2D and tube- cutting machines: Laser, plasma, oxycutting, water-jet.Almacam drives all technologies and brands from a single CAM environment.

Full visibility over your production in real time: See at a glance what each machine is doing: jobs that are pending, in progress, or completed. A color-coded load indicator shows how busy each machine is throughout the day.

Plan your jobs across all machines: Assign sheets to cut to each physical machine directly from the planning area by using drag and drop. You can pick the earliest available slot, or a specific time of your choice.

Anticipate and manage machine unavailability: Declare one-off or recurring downtimes for breaks, maintenance, malfunctions, or holidays on one machine or on all of them at once. The schedule adapts automatically.

No idle time between jobs: Fill free time slots in one click, reorder jobs on the fly, and keep every machine running as close to capacity as possible without ever losing track of what was planned.

Job assignment

  • Auto-schedule to the earliest available slot across all machines
  • Place jobs at a specific time with a single click
  • Schedule multiple sheets simultaneously when parallel cutting is enabled

Production monitoring

  • Track each job status: pending, in progress, or completed
  • Color-coded load factor per machine and per day
  • Blue line indicator showing current time on the schedule
  • Start, follow, and close cutting jobs directly from the schedule
  • Fill idle time between jobs in one click

Machine availability

  • Declare downtimes for breaks, maintenance, malfunctions or days off
  • Apply to one machine or all machines at once
  • Set up recurring downtimes with custom frequency and duration
  • Dissociate a downtime for a single machine without affecting others
  • Manage exceptions to recurring events independently

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