Practical guides for shop floors, SMEs and technical offices that want to organize jobs, phases and time without complex or expensive ERP/MES systems.
👉 Where to start: Why production planning fails
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Why Production Planning Almost Always Fails
A practical method to manage job orders, priorities, alternatives, and waiting times without constantly chasing the shop floor every day.
This book comes from real production experience. It is not academic theory: it is written for people who deal every day with urgent jobs, delays, missing materials, bottlenecks, and constant priority changes.
If you work in manufacturing, production planning, technical offices, or you are responsible for keeping jobs moving and deliveries under control, this book offers a concrete approach to managing production in a more practical way, even with simple tools such as Excel and Microsoft Project.
Inside the book you will find:
- Why production plans break down in real life
- How to manage job orders and real priorities better
- The value of alternatives and a real plan B
- How to truly read lead time, constraints, and waiting times
- A concrete method designed for real companies
A book for those who want to stop reacting to production problems and start managing them with a clearer method.
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Why this site is different
No useless theory
Here you’ll find practical explanations for people who deal every day with jobs, achines and deadlines.
No university-style examples.
Real manufacturing examples
We talk about phases, labor time, machines, and internal/external operations.
The same things you see in the workshop and in the technical office.
Concrete tools
Microsoft Project and Excel used in a simple way, with clear settings, reusable models and solutions you can apply immediately.
Where to start
If you’re starting now to organize production with Project and Excel, begin with these contents.
They are designed to give you a clear method right away.
How to plan a job with Microsoft Project
A practical example to turn a job into work phases, time and resources.
Project and Excel: when to use them together
Understanding what to manage in Project and what in Excel avoids confusion, duplicates and wasted time.
The most common planning mistakes
Typical mistakes that make deadlines slip, even when using powerful tools.
Pianificazione Facile comes from direct experience in manufacturing companies, workshops and technical offices, where organizing jobs, phases and resources is a daily need — not theory.
The tools explained here — Microsoft Project and Excel — are the ones used every day to plan, reduce errors and make work more manageable, without complex or expensive software.
Tools I actually use
Excel and Microsoft Project work best only if used with the right tools.
Here you’ll find the ones I really use in daily work.