The office · Scheduling and dispatch

What runs next, and who decides.

A First Stop consultant pointing at a scheduling board on a screen at the cell while a machinist weighs it up, a planning whiteboard and the cell behind

On the call, we would ask

  • How is the week scheduled today, and how often does it survive to Wednesday?
  • What does the scheduler know that is not written anywhere?
  • When a machine goes down, how long before the plan reflects it?
  • If the system could send a job straight to a cell, would you let it, and for which jobs?