MAG OptiAI

SchedAI

Turn Scheduling Complexity
Into Feasible, Explainable Plans

SchedAI helps teams build, optimize, and evaluate schedules across production, service, employee, and academic scheduling environments using real constraints, operational priorities, and AI-assisted explanations.

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Explore SchedAI products through the Pro Console and find the scheduling path that fits your operational challenge.

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What is SchedAI?

Scheduling Optimization Built for Real Operational Decisions

SchedAI is MAG OptiAI's optimization solution family for scheduling complexity. It helps teams turn complex scheduling constraints into feasible, explainable, and decision-ready plans.

SchedAI helps organizations plan tasks, people, resources, machines, rooms, and time slots under real operational constraints. It is built for scheduling environments where manual planning, spreadsheets, or simple tools become difficult to manage because of changing priorities, limited capacity, resource conflicts, dependencies, availability, and execution trade-offs.

Instead of treating scheduling as a manual planning task, SchedAI turns scheduling into a guided decision workflow. Teams can define constraints, set priorities, run optimization, review visual results, understand trade-offs, and evaluate scheduling paths before execution.

SchedAI makes advanced scheduling optimization practical without requiring every organization to build an internal Operations Research, Data Science, or optimization engineering team from scratch. The optimization complexity runs behind the scenes, while users stay focused on the operational decisions they need to make.

SchedAI also supports applied learning environments where instructors, students, and training teams need to understand scheduling optimization through practical, visual, and explainable workflows.

SchedAI production scheduling workspace showing guided steps, schedule outputs, and AI-assisted review panels

Built for Scheduling Complexity

Plan around real-world constraints such as capacity, availability, workloads, priorities, dependencies, time limits, and resource conflicts.

Optimization Made Usable

Use advanced scheduling optimization through a guided workflow without needing specialized optimization expertise from scratch.

From Schedules to Decisions

Review feasible schedules, understand trade-offs, compare scheduling paths, and make clearer decisions before execution.

Useful for Operations and Applied Learning

Support real operational planning while also helping learners understand how scheduling optimization works in practical scenarios.

SchedAI products

Which Scheduling Challenge Are You Facing?

Choose the SchedAI product that matches your planning problem. Each workspace inside the Pro Console guides you from scenario setup and constraint configuration to optimization, results review, and AI-assisted explanation.

Production plans keep changing?

Production Scheduling

Turn production plans into feasible schedules under real constraints.

Plan jobs, machines, resources, processing times, priorities, and operational dependencies in one scheduling workflow. SchedAI helps production teams reduce conflicts, balance workloads, identify bottlenecks, and generate schedules that are easier to review before execution.

Constraint-aware schedulingSchedule around jobs, machines, due dates, setup times, release times, and maintenance windows.
Machine and resource flexibilitySupport single machine, parallel machines, flow shop, job shop, open shop, and flexible variants.
Maintenance and setup planningBlock planned downtime and include sequence-dependent setup or changeover time.
Bottleneck and workload visibilityReview makespan, utilization, tardiness, completion, and resource pressure signals.
What-if scenario testingTest controlled changes to runtime, jobs, operations, machines, and durations.
Schedule comparisonCompare alternatives across KPI movement, assignments, utilization, and timing impact.
Feasibility and readiness checksValidate schedule structure and constraint fit before execution or downstream handoff.
Hard to build staff schedules that work for everyone?

Employee Scheduling

Build staff schedules around availability, coverage, and workload rules.

Create employee schedules that account for shifts, availability, required coverage, workload balance, role requirements, and scheduling constraints. SchedAI helps workforce teams reduce conflicts, improve coverage, and make staff planning more reliable.

Shift and role planningBuild schedules around shift demand, required skills, employee skills, and role fit.
Availability managementRespect availability windows, dated overnight shifts, max shifts, hours, and rest limits.
Coverage optimizationTrack raw and priority-weighted coverage, assigned demand, and unassigned shifts.
Workload balanceDistribute work with workload spread, hours breakdowns, and employee utilization visibility.
Preferences and constraintsUse optional preference costs, skill checks, availability checks, and deterministic preflight validation.
What-if scenario testingGenerate controlled staffing variants from a successful baseline and compare the outcome.
Compliance and auditabilityKeep schedule changes anchored to saved scenarios, validation messages, and reviewable run results.
Schedule optimizationOptimize coverage, workload, preferences, and operational reliability before publishing.
Service schedules keep shifting?

Service Scheduling

Coordinate service work, assignments, and coverage more effectively.

Plan service jobs, appointments, teams, skills, locations, and time windows while balancing operational constraints. SchedAI helps service teams assign the right people to the right work, reduce scheduling gaps, and improve day-to-day coordination.

Technician and visit schedulingAssign technicians to visits using skills, depots, shift windows, service durations, and priorities.
Skill and team matchingMatch required visit skills with qualified technicians while respecting blocked and preferred assignments.
Location and travel coordinationUse depot, customer location, travel-time, and optional distance matrices for route-aware schedules.
Time window planningRespect visit windows, technician shift windows, tardiness limits, duty limits, and overtime policy.
Coverage and workload balanceReview coverage, unserved visits, workload-balance indicators, overtime, travel, wait time, and route burden.
What-if scenario testingExplore controlled service variants from a saved baseline and compare schedule impact.
SLA and constraint managementModel mandatory visits, max tardiness, allow-unserved policy, return-to-depot, and open-route behavior.
Timetable clashes slowing you down?

Academic Scheduling

Create structured timetables for courses, rooms, instructors, and academic planning.

Build academic schedules that account for courses, instructors, rooms, student groups, sessions, and timing constraints. SchedAI helps academic planners reduce clashes, improve room usage, and simplify timetable review.

Course and room schedulingBuild class timetables across courses, rooms, timeslots, meeting requirements, and room capacity.
Instructor assignmentRespect professor availability, teaching-load limits, course ownership, and class responsibilities.
Student group coordinationUse student groups, section groups, course relationships, exam conflicts, and separation rules.
Clash detection and resolutionSurface hard violations, conflict pressure, room pressure, instructor pressure, and dense exam conflicts.
Time slot and calendar rulesHandle allowed slots, room blackouts, lunch windows, exam duration slots, and student daily caps.
Room utilization visibilityReview room utilization, capacity fit, required features, room types, resources, and split-room pressure.
What-if scenario testingTest room blackouts, meeting patterns, course relationships, exam conflicts, separation, and solver policy.
All SchedAI products run inside the Pro Console with guided workflows and AI assistance.

Shared SchedAI capabilities

What Every SchedAI Product Can Do

Every SchedAI product uses the same scheduling optimization experience to help teams structure scenarios, model constraints, generate feasible schedules, explain results, and evaluate alternatives before execution.

Shared Scheduling Optimization Experience

One system. Seven capabilities. Better decisions.

01

Guided Scheduling Scenario Setup

Structure tasks, resources, timing, availability, and planning requirements into a schedule-ready scenario.

02

Constraint and Priority Modeling

Define the rules, limits, dependencies, objectives, assumptions, and priorities that shape the final schedule.

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03

AI-Assisted Configuration Review

Use AI guidance to review solver settings, objectives, assumptions, and configuration choices before running optimization.

04

Feasible Schedule Generation

Generate schedules that respect the selected data, constraints, objectives, and priorities.

05

Schedule Outputs and KPI Review

Review timelines, assignments, utilization, delays, workload balance, and other schedule-quality indicators.

06

Schedule Result Explanation

Understand why the schedule looks the way it does, which constraints shaped it, and what trade-offs influenced the result.

07

What-if Scheduling Evaluation

Test changes, compare alternatives, and evaluate how different assumptions, constraints, or priorities affect the schedule before execution.

One shared scheduling optimization experience across multiple SchedAI products

Built to help teams structure, optimize, explain, compare, and decide with more confidence.

AI-Assisted

Intelligent guidance at every step.

Secure & Private

Your data stays protected.

Built for Planners

Designed for real operational decisions.

Pro Console access

Start in the Pro Console. Scale for Real Operations.

SchedAI products are accessible through the Pro Console with guided workflows and AI-assisted tools. Start free to explore and evaluate, then scale when your team needs more capacity, usage, or operational support.

01

Choose Your Product

Select the scheduling product that fits your planning challenge: production, employee, service, or academic scheduling.

You can

  • Browse products
  • Understand key use cases
  • Kick off your workspace

02

Explore with Guided Workflows

Follow a structured workflow inside the Pro Console to set up your scenario, run optimization, and review explainable results.

You can

  • Define scenarios
  • Configure constraints
  • Run optimization
  • Review and understand results

03

Evaluate with Free Access

Use free access to understand how SchedAI works, test supported workflows, and evaluate whether the product fits your needs.

You can

  • Explore core capabilities
  • Use limited AI-assisted features
  • Test with your data
  • Evaluate value for your team

04

Scale for Real Operations

When your needs grow, scale with higher usage, advanced capabilities, collaboration, and integration-ready outputs.

You can

  • Solve larger problems
  • Increase usage and AI credits
  • Collaborate with your team
  • Integrate and deploy

Built to start simple and grow with your operations.

Use SchedAI to explore scheduling workflows first, then expand when your planning needs require more capacity, support, or integration.

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Use cases

Choose the scheduling use case you want to explore

Explore how SchedAI handles different scheduling problems using one guided optimization workflow for setup, solving, AI explanation, what-if analysis, and comparison.

Flexible job shop scheduling before execution

See how SchedAI helps manufacturing teams evaluate machine eligibility, sequencing, setup times, release times, due dates, priorities, and maintenance windows before work reaches the production floor.

Complex production constraints make manual planning harder to manage.

Manufacturing teams need to coordinate machine eligibility, operation sequence, setup times, release times, due dates, priorities, and maintenance windows while keeping schedules feasible and reviewable before execution.

Problem

Manual scheduling struggles with sequence complexity, setup and maintenance constraints, and schedule risk.

SchedAI workflow

Flexible job shop scheduling with AI Explain, What-if Analysis, and AI Compare.

Outcome

Better schedule decisions with lower makespan, weighted tardiness, machine idle time, and production risk.