TUB Scheduling
Book people, not slots
Your shop’s capacity was never one number. It’s the real hours of the techs on your floor. TUB Scheduling books each tech’s time, journals every move, and replays the board at any moment of the day.
The capacity gap
The board says 8.5 hours open. Nobody has two in a row.
Most schedulers count the shop as one bucket of hours. The bucket looks fine until a two-hour job shows up and the open time turns out to be a half hour here and an hour there, spread across four people. Then someone promises a time the floor can’t keep.
How it works
Every booking spends a real person’s time
A TUB is a tech utilization block, a piece of one technician’s day. Bookings draw down those blocks, so the board always adds up to the people who will do the work.
01 · Blocks
Book the person
Each tech’s day is a set of blocks. A booking takes time from a named tech, never from a shop-wide pool.
02 · Journal
Write down every move
Every booking, move, and edit lands in a journal with who made it, when, and what the board showed them at that moment.
03 · Replay
Scrub back to any moment
Pick a time and the board redraws as it was. “You overbooked us” gets an answer, not an argument.
Drag the clock. The board remembers.
A Tuesday at Acme Ford Service. Press play, open any entry in the journal, then answer the service manager’s 4:40 PM question with what the board showed when each change was made.
Shadow mode
Run it beside your book before you trust it
Shadow mode reads your current schedule and builds the person-time board next to it. It changes nothing. You see every hour where the two disagree, and you decide when to switch.
Touches nothing
Your current book keeps running. Nobody’s schedule gets turned off while you compare.
Every disagreement, named
Where your book shows room your techs don’t have, or hides room they do, you see the hour and the tech.
Keep the one that matches your floor
Run both for a month. The board that matches what actually happened is the one you keep.
Ground rules
Overbooking isn’t a mystery. It’s an unrecorded edit.
TUB Scheduling records every edit, so the board can always explain itself.
01 · Shadow mode
Nobody’s book is turned off
Shadow mode runs beside the schedule your advisors already use.
02 · Numbers
Every number has names under it
Any capacity figure breaks down to the named blocks behind it.
03 · Edits
Every edit has a name on it
Bookings, moves, and overrides are journaled with who made them and what the board showed.
04 · Capacity
Capacity is your people
Shop capacity is the sum of your techs’ real hours, not a number typed into a setting.
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