Exporting a Committed Schedule for the Shop Floor in EDGEBIC

Exporting a committed schedule for the shop floor in EDGEBIC by User Solutions means taking the plan you just generated and handing it out as Excel snapshots and printed work lists, filtered to whoever needs which slice. This walkthrough commits a schedule and then distributes it three ways, with an honest note on what exports cleanly and what does not. It is one of the worked examples we publish so you know exactly what the tool does.

The point of a schedule is that the floor runs it, so getting it off the screen and into hands is the last mile. Once actuals come back, the loop closes through the kiosk, covered in standing up the kiosk and logging a first shift.

Step 1: Commit the Schedule

Start from a committed plan. Run Drive Schedule, review the result, and let it commit. The Job View now shows every operation across the plant, each bar in its work center row, with columns for job number, work center, planned start and end, and hours. This grid is the master view, and the distribution copies all flow from it.

Step 2: Export the Whole Plan to Excel

The Job View grid ships a dedicated Excel snapshot button. Click it and EDGEBIC writes the grid exactly as displayed, with your current filters, sort order, and column layout, to an .xlsx file. What you see is what you get: if the grid is showing next week sorted by start time, the export carries next week sorted by start time.

The Workcenter Details grid and the BOR data grid carry the same snapshot button, so the pattern is consistent across the screens a planner uses most. And any grid in the application supports the standard right-click, then Export to Excel or CSV, so even a screen without the dedicated button can be exported.

Step 3: Slice It by Work Center

Five supervisors rarely want the whole plant; each wants their own area. The move is to filter first, then export, once per area.

Open the Job View and filter to one work center, say HEAT-1. The grid now shows only HEAT-1's operations. Click the Excel snapshot button, and the export carries exactly those filtered rows. Repeat for the next area. Alternatively, the per-work-center schedule view already isolates one machine's booked hours by day, which is the natural station work list.

Because every export is a snapshot of what is on screen, the filter is the work list. Set it deliberately and you hand each supervisor a clean, area-specific sheet instead of a plant-wide dump they have to sift.

Step 4: Print the Operator Dispatch List

For labor rather than machines, the Dispatch tab under Daily Hours is purpose-built. It shows a read-only per-operator daily work list drawn from the committed plan, grouped by operator and date, with per-group hour sums, and filtered by a date window and an operator selector. This is what a supervisor prints at the start of a shift: each person's dated assignments, in order. It reads from the plan's operator bookings, so it always matches the schedule the machines are running.

Step 5: Understand What Exports, and What Does Not

Here is the honest boundary, and it matters.

The grid snapshot exports are formatted for people to read. They are deliberately not the import file format, and they do not round-trip. You cannot export the Job View, edit it in Excel, and re-import it as a schedule. That is by design: the snapshot is a distribution copy, not a data-exchange format.

When you genuinely need data to move between systems, EDGEBIC uses import and export masks, the structured layer covered in importing master data with Excel masks. Pushing schedule results back toward an ERP goes through that same mask-based approach, described in exporting the EDGEBIC schedule back to your ERP. There is no native, certified ERP connector; the masks are the honest, flexible integration layer.

And changes from the floor do not come back through an edited spreadsheet. They come back the way they always do: actuals logged at the kiosk, or imported through the Actuals mask, and planner edits made inside EDGEBIC. Keeping the snapshot read-only is what protects a single authoritative schedule from turning into a dozen edited copies.

What This Walkthrough Proves

1. Committed schedules export as grid snapshots. The Job View, Workcenter Details, and BOR grids each have a dedicated Excel button, and any grid exports by right-click.
2. Filter, then export, to slice by area. The export carries exactly the filtered rows and your column layout, so one filter per supervisor gives each a clean sheet.
3. The Dispatch tab is the operator work list. A read-only per-operator daily list from the committed plan, built to print.
4. Snapshots do not round-trip. They are read-only distribution copies, not the import format.
5. Data flows back through the right channels. Actuals via the kiosk or the Actuals mask, integration via the import and export masks, never an edited spreadsheet.

From Plan to Floor and Back

Distributing the schedule is the handoff to execution, and the return trip is where the plan meets reality. Once the floor logs what actually happened, the partial completion reschedule walkthrough shows how those actuals feed the next plan without disturbing finished work, and the machine breakdown reschedule walkthrough shows the same loop after a disruption.

User Solutions has put schedules in front of shop-floor crews since 1991, from GE and Cummins to the US Navy. Contact us for a demo and bring one committed week: we will build the work lists your supervisors will actually use.