Takt

Make more of your production capacity

Optimized schedules for jobs, machines, changeovers and deadlines. When a rush order lands or a machine stops, Takt re-plans the whole schedule.

Due dates and changeovers planned together, and an AI assistant sets it up with you.

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How it works

From your data to a planning model

Describe the plant in your own words; the assistant builds the model on your data.

A good schedule rests on what your planners already know: which machines can run which jobs, which changeovers cost the most and which orders cannot slip. Takt turns that knowledge into a model the optimizer can search, so every plan it proposes respects it.

  1. 01

    Bring your data

    Bring production data from your enterprise and planning systems. Start from the order lists, routings and machine data you already export; a direct connection can follow later.

  2. 02

    Describe your operation

    Describe machines, job types and operating rules in plain language. The AI assistant asks about the cases your data does not show, such as rush orders, shared tooling or preferred lines.

  3. 03

    Refine the model

    Review and refine the planning model with your team. Ask the AI assistant why a job landed where it did, then adjust the rule behind it before the first live plan.

Respond to a new priority

An urgent order lands mid-week. The obvious fix often pushes other orders late; a re-optimized sequence can absorb it without a single late order.

Illustrative scenario

Three machines, three product families. Switching family costs a one-hour changeover.

  • Family A
  • Family B
  • Family C
  • Changeover
  • Urgent order
New order
Machine 1
Machine 2
Machine 3
A1
B1
C3
B2
C1
C2
A2
A3
B3
Urgent · B
due 10 h
C2 due 14 h
+3 h
no extra changeover
If you chooseObvious fixRe-optimized
Urgent orderOn timeOn time
Late orders1 (C2)None
Last job ends15 h14 h
Illustrative example, not customer data.

AI assistant

An assistant from set-up to every re-plan

  • Set up by conversation

    Describe how your work runs in plain language. The assistant drafts the planning model from what you say and the data you bring.

  • Rules you can read

    The model is laid out as rules, resources and priorities that your team can check and correct.

  • Ready for what-if questions

    Later, ask the assistant what-if questions: change the order of orders, add a rush job or take a machine offline, and compare the revised schedules.

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What a better schedule buys your plant

  • More output

    Smarter sequencing cuts changeovers, so the same machines make more good parts per shift.

  • On-time delivery

    Every order is planned against its due date, so late orders show up early, while there is still time to act.

  • Faster replanning

    When a machine goes down or a rush order lands, compare revised plans before you commit.

  • Plans you can explain

    Every plan follows the rules your team set, so planners can see why it looks the way it does.

Features built for the factory

  • Better sequences

    Balance deadlines and production priorities against machine eligibility, setups, dependencies and changeovers.

  • Capacity and availability

    Align jobs with machine calendars, teams and available materials. Shifts and maintenance windows are built in.

  • What-if planning

    Compare new orders, outages and changing production priorities before updating the schedule.

Under the hood

Planning applications run on the 4colors Optimizer

Takt, Roster and Stride run on 4colors optimization algorithms, the family that set new best-known schedules on a public project-scheduling benchmark.

Rules you describe become a model the engine searches within your time budget, so what-if questions return comparable alternatives, not a single plan.

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4colors Optimizer

Original search algorithms, tested on demanding benchmarks and run to your time budget. Also powers the Optimizer for Scheduling, the Optimizer for QUBO and the Quantum Compiler.

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More planning apps

  • Roster

    Rosters that cover every shift with the right skills, fairly, re-planned when someone calls in sick.

    Discover Roster

  • Stride

    Project schedules built on the people and equipment you have, re-planned when a project slips.

    Discover Stride

The mathematics behind production schedules

Explore more use cases

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Bring us your hardest production week

Share a real week of orders and machines, and see what an optimized schedule does with it.

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