The Production Schedule Board is useful for quickly assessing the performance of the production schedule and making fine-tune schedule adjustments prior to releasing shop orders to production. The Production Schedule Board can be opened from the Production menu and displays the finite capacity schedule in Gantt chart view with each row containing scheduled shop order operations for a work center resource across time.

The Production Schedule Board displays work non-work periods in a yellow background based on the planned capacity in the Shop Calendar. The shop order operations appear as red (late) or blue (on-time) bars with each one labeled with the shop order number and sequence number. The length of the operation bar represents its duration with the beginning and end of the bar representing the schedule start and finish times. An operation that must span over non-work periods will appear longer than the actual operation hours required.

The Production Schedule Board can be used an effective tool to quickly reschedule shop order operations and obtain a frozen schedule that will not be changed by the addition of new orders into the system. An operation can be rescheduled by dragging an operation bar to another work period on the same resource. Rescheduling operations on the scheduling board changes the schedule start and end dates and times for the operation and freezes the operation so that it will not be rescheduled the next time the scheduler runs. To allow the scheduler to make adjustments to the overlap between operations, the rescheduling of one operation on a shop order will not automatically move other operations on the same shop order. To move multiple operations on the same shop order, drag and drop each individual operation. To highlight all operations on a shop order, click the Select S.O. toggle button. To remove the highlight from a shop order, turn off the toggle button.