Rosters, attendance and logs8 to 35 rows
Production schedule
A landscape weekly schedule for a small shop or line. Each row is an order with quantity, station, start and due dates, quantity finished and status, for makers, print shops and workshops that run several jobs at once.
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On this page
What prints
A landscape page headed Production Schedule, with Week of and Line or shop lines at the top right. The table has nine columns: Order no., Customer, Product or part, Qty, Station or machine, Start, Due, Qty done and Status. Under the table is a small grey note: "Status: not started, in progress, on hold, done. Update the qty done at the end of each shift."
Nothing is filled in for you. The note is the only printed guidance.
The settings
- Heading. Your own title if you want one (40 characters at most); empty gives Production Schedule.
- Form. The page opens on this layout. The same control switches to the roster, attendance sheet, work log, vendor list or action plan.
- Rows. 8 to 35, opening at 16. One row per order, so choose a number slightly above the orders you expect that week.
Running the board
The sheet works best as a shared whiteboard on paper. Fill in the first six columns when the order comes in: number, customer, what is being made, how many, where it will be made and the dates. Leave Qty done and Status for the floor. Whoever closes the shift writes how many units are finished and updates the status using one of the four words printed in the note. Sticking to four words means you can scan the column for "on hold" without reading the page.
Order the rows by due date, earliest first, and rewrite the page on Monday rather than crossing out half of it. If a job moves to another machine, change the station and add the reason in the margin.
Because quantity ordered and quantity done sit in neighboring columns, a gap such as 240 against 180 shows at a glance what is left. For deeper process improvement help, the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership runs centers that advise small manufacturers.
Worked example: a small sign shop
A sign shop with two routers and a vinyl plotter prints the sheet for the week of November 9 and writes "Main shop" on the line field.
Row 1: order 1042, Harbor Realty, "Yard signs 18x24," qty 60, Router 1, start Mon, due Wed, qty done 60, status done. Row 2: 1043, Elm Street Gym, "Window decals," qty 12, Plotter, start Tue, due Fri, qty done 5, status in progress. Row 3: 1044, City Parks, "Trail markers," qty 200, Router 2, start Wed, due next Mon, qty done 0, status on hold, with the margin note "waiting on aluminum."
On Thursday the owner sees at once that the decals are behind and the trail markers are blocked, and she moves a worker to the plotter. For the people side of the same week, use the work log or the roster.