A Week-by-Week EDGEBIC Migration Timeline

A single-plant move from RMDB to EDGEBIC typically takes about six weeks, structured as two weeks of data work, one week of pilot, one week of validation, and two weeks of parallel-run cutover. EDGEBIC by User Solutions is the next-generation successor to RMDB, EDGEBI, and RMX, so the scheduling model carries over and the calendar is driven by data preparation and validation rather than by learning to schedule. This timeline is a realistic default. Your data quality is the variable that moves the date, so front-load the data weeks and the shape holds.

How to read this timeline

Six weeks is a planning anchor, not a promise. A simple shop with clean data and few products moves faster; a plant with messy routings and thousands of items moves slower. The weeks below assume one planner running the project a few hours a day while RMDB stays live as the system of record. You do not stop scheduling to do this. You run the migration alongside daily work, which is exactly what the parallel-run design is for.

If you are in a hurry, compress by scope, not by skipping steps: migrate one cell first, cut it over, then expand. Never cut the reconciliation or the parallel run.

Week 1: Export and audit

The first week is about getting your RMDB data out and looking hard at it. Export the master data (items, customers, work centers, routings, open orders) to Excel through RMDB's reports. Then audit it before you touch EDGEBIC. Look for the usual gaps: routings missing a setup time, duplicate item numbers, work centers with no capacity entered.

This audit is the highest-leverage week in the whole project, because a gap caught now costs minutes and the same gap caught in the pilot costs hours. Treat it as a real pass, not a glance, following a data-quality audit checklist.

Week 2: Import and configure

With clean spreadsheets, bring the data into EDGEBIC through the built-in Excel and CSV import masks, in the recommended order: items and customers, then work centers, then routings, then open orders. Routings import in two passes so the operation sequence wires correctly.

This is also the week you configure what does not import: shifts, holidays, and downtime are set up inside the application, not brought in through a mask. A shop's working hours are simple enough to enter once. By the end of week two, EDGEBIC holds your master data and knows your calendar.

Week 3: Pilot one cell

Do not schedule the whole plant yet. Pick your busiest cell or your ten highest-volume products and schedule just that slice. This one-cell pilot proves the flow on a small, controllable set where mistakes are cheap to find and fix.

Schedule the cell, then look at the plan. Does it respect finite capacity? Does the sequence make sense to your schedulers? A plan that looks wrong here almost always points to a data gap from week one, which is why the audit and the pilot reinforce each other.

Week 4: Validate against RMDB

Now prove it. Schedule the same jobs in both systems and reconcile the EDGEBIC plan against RMDB, explaining every difference. A difference is nearly always a data issue (a missing time, an omitted step), not an engine disagreement, because EDGEBIC and RMDB share a lineage. This validation step is where trust is built, and it is the milestone your go-live date should hang on.

Expand the validated slice as time allows: once the pilot cell matches, add the next cell's routings and reconcile again. The plant comes online in validated pieces, not all at once.

Weeks 5 and 6: Parallel run and cutover

The last two weeks run both systems in parallel. EDGEBIC produces the real schedule while RMDB stays up as a safety net. Your team compares the two plans for the same jobs each day, which is comparison, not double data entry. When the EDGEBIC schedule holds on the floor for a week and the team stops reaching for RMDB, you cut over and RMDB becomes read-only history.

Keep a rollback plan in your pocket through this stretch. You will almost certainly not need it, but the parallel run exists precisely so that if something looks wrong, you fall back with no data loss.

A one-page view

What moves the date

Only one thing reliably breaks this timeline, and it is data quality, not scheduling. An RMDB team learns the interface in days, so the scheduling weeks rarely slip. That puts the weight on the people who own the data, and who you need on your EDGEBIC migration team names the six responsibilities to fill before week one. The data weeks slip when routings are incomplete or standards are stale. Put your effort in weeks one and two, and the back half stays on schedule.

The takeaway

A realistic EDGEBIC migration timeline is about six weeks: export and audit, import and configure, pilot one cell, validate against RMDB, then a two-week parallel run into cutover. Anchor your go-live commitment to the pilot milestone, compress by scope rather than by skipping validation, and expect data quality (not scheduling) to be the variable. See the platform on the EDGEBIC overview, read the upgrade path on the RMDB to EDGEBIC guide, and pair this with a phased migration plan to EDGEBIC.