- The tests that passed while the bug was thereA design partner review turned into four fixes, one deleted assumption, and a lesson about test suites that agree with you.
- How to choose manufacturing scheduling softwareDraw the category boundaries first, then shortlist. What counts as production scheduling software, what "free" really covers, and how to prove value on your own job list before you commit any budget.
- What is job shop scheduling?A plain-language explanation of what job shop scheduling means, why it is harder than it sounds, how shops actually do it today, and where the academic version of the problem parts company with the one on your floor.
- An assistant that cannot touch the scheduleMost AI features are sold on what they can do to your data. For a production schedule, the more useful promise runs the other way — here is why Orkyo's assistant reads, shows and proposes, but never moves a job on its own.
- Every tool ships someone else's factoryScheduling software arrives with opinions about what you make and how. Ours did too — three resource types, decided before we met you, with a rename button to paper over the gap. This is what we learned from watching people work around our own defaults, and why we deleted them.
- Outgrowing the machine-shop Excel scheduleMost shops plan in a spreadsheet, and the research says most spreadsheets contain errors nobody has found. This is about where the planning sheet stops working, what the evidence actually supports, and how to tell which side of the line you are on.
- Every factory has limited spaceMachines get maintenance systems and materials get ERP modules — but the floor space every job has to physically occupy is usually planned in a spreadsheet, by one person, under deadline pressure. That gap is worth taking seriously.