Production scheduling built for a sign shop floor
A whiteboard tells you what's on today; it never warns you about next Thursday. Sign OS schedules every job across your departments on one timeline, so you can see a bottleneck forming days before it becomes a missed deadline — and the floor works straight off that same schedule instead of a photo of a whiteboard.
One timeline for the whole shop
Every job schedules onto a department Gantt timeline — design, print, cut, fabrication, install — that's weekend- and holiday-aware and flags capacity overload before you commit. You plan Monday with Thursday's crunch already visible, and move work while there's still time to move it.
- Department Gantt across design, print, cut, fabrication and install
- Weekend- and holiday-aware capacity
- Overload warnings before a week is overbooked
- Drag work between days and departments as priorities shift
The floor works from it, live
Released jobs appear on big-button floor tablet boards — start, finish, next — with no prices shown. QR-coded job sheets clock real time against real steps, so the schedule reflects what's genuinely happening on the floor rather than a plan nobody updated. Print, cut and fabrication queues each get their own board.
- Realtime floor kanban boards — start / finish / next
- QR job sheets: scan, step, clock
- Per-department queues for print, cut and fabrication
- Live status flows back to the office without a phone call
Dispatch and install on the same plan
Installation isn't a separate spreadsheet. Install work schedules on the same timeline as production, carries site and access details, and dispatches to a contractor portal with the job information crews need — so the person planning the week sees making and fitting in one place.
- Install jobs on the same timeline as production
- Site, access and logistics details on the job
- Contractor portal with job sheets — without your prices
- Dispatch this week surfaced on the project dashboard
Scheduling that sharpens your numbers
Because makers clock time against steps, quoted-versus-actual time is visible per job — so scheduling isn't just planning, it's feedback. Over a few months you learn which recipes under-estimate machine or labour time and tune them. Sign OS is built in Australia on AUD plans from $89/month, with a free 7-day trial and no per-user fees.
Frequently asked questions
- How does the schedule know our capacity?
- Jobs carry the process steps and estimated machine and labour time from their recipes, and the timeline lays that across your departments' working days — weekend- and holiday-aware. When a day or week is overbooked, it warns you, so you can rebalance before you promise a date you can't hit.
- Does the floor have to learn complicated software?
- No. The floor works from big-button tablet boards — start, finish, next — and scans QR job sheets to clock time. There are no prices and no menus to dig through; it's built for gloves-on use on the shop floor, not for an office.
- Does it schedule installation, not just production?
- Yes. Install work sits on the same timeline as making, carries site and access details, and dispatches to a contractor portal — so one plan covers both what's being made and what's being fitted this week.
- What does it cost, and is there a trial?
- Plans are AUD $89/month for 3 users, $169 for 10 and $249 for 20 — no onboarding or per-user fees inside each bucket. Every plan starts with a free 7-day trial and doesn't ask for a card.