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Finite schedules that hold up to real constraints — and re-plan in minutes when reality changes on the floor.
Runs your finite scheduling layer continuously — sequencing orders against real constraints, minimizing changeover loss, and re-planning in minutes when the floor changes — so your schedulers spend time on the floor, not in spreadsheets. Every guardrail is yours, configured to match how your plant already operates.
Every machine, material, and labor reality respected — updated continuously, not on a weekly batch cycle.
Orders sequenced to minimize changeover time and cleaning within campaign and customer-commitment rules.
Machine down, materials short, expedite in — the agent re-plans immediately and flags only what needs a human decision.
Quality holds, scrap, unplanned downtime — absorbed where possible, escalated with options when not.
Schedule attainment, throughput, and changeover loss tracked live. End-of-shift summaries generated automatically.
ERP orders and routings, materials availability, labor schedules, quality holds, and historian data.
Constraint model, sequencing, changeover optimization, policy check, publish or escalate, continuous re-plan on floor events.
Finite schedule published to MES, orders released, shift plans adjusted, attainment reports generated.
Customer-impacting delays, overtime authorization, line swaps, and anything outside floor authority.
Full auditability and control, built in from day one.
Trusted by plant managers and schedulers who’ve moved from spreadsheet re-planning to continuous finite scheduling.
“Athena transformed our decision-making process. What once took hours now happens in minutes — with accuracy and reliability we didn’t have previously. Athena’s proactive insights ensure our teams stay informed, enabling faster action to mitigate risks and maintain production flow.”

Ashok Leyland
Brock Air Products, Inc
CM Buck
Daimler
Extract Production
HOS Global Foods
JCB
Leader Promos
Medtrition
Midway Industrial Supply
Motherson
Nassau Provisions
Nutmeg Spice Company
OrthoFeet
Riley Sales
SK Sales
Winston Products
Ashok Leyland
Brock Air Products, Inc
CM Buck
Daimler
Extract Production
HOS Global Foods
JCB
Leader Promos
Medtrition
Midway Industrial Supply
Motherson
Nassau Provisions
Nutmeg Spice Company
OrthoFeet
Riley Sales
SK Sales
Winston ProductsAPS gives you a scheduling engine. The Production Planner Agent runs it continuously against live floor reality and handles exceptions APS isn’t built to react to. Most organizations run them together.
Spreadsheets don’t react to live data, optimize changeovers at scale, or survive a scheduler taking a week off. The agent does all three.
Every re-plan hour is a scheduler off the floor. Every missed sequence is changeover waste. We baseline your attainment during setup so improvement is measured in your numbers.
Everything you need to know before you get started.
Typical pilot is 6–8 weeks per line: 2 weeks of system integration, 2 weeks of constraint and policy setup, 4 weeks of shadow mode before the agent goes live on the shop floor.
Every schedule version is preserved — reverting to a prior version is one click. Inside policy guardrails the agent operates autonomously; outside policy it proposes, humans approve.
No — it removes the spreadsheet rebuilding so schedulers spend time on the floor, on constraint conversations, and on continuous improvement work that actually needs them.
Every schedule version is saved — reverting to a previous version is one click. Inside your configured rules the agent works on its own; outside those rules it proposes options and waits for your approval.
A 30-minute demo answers them faster than any FAQ.