How to Add a Plant Holiday in EDGEBIC (Including Recurring Ones)

To add a plant-wide holiday in EDGEBIC, open the Daily Hours tab, select the inner Holiday tab, and click Add Holiday. Enter a Name and a Date, leave Closes the whole day ticked, and save. Every work center on every shift now shows zero capacity for that date, and the next scheduling run flows every job around it.

A plant holiday is the bluntest calendar instrument available: it closes the whole plant. That makes it the right tool for national holidays and annual shutdowns, and the wrong tool for a single machine's maintenance day. This page covers the whole-day case. For the full calendar setup sequence, read how to set up shifts and holidays in EDGEBIC by User Solutions.

Before You Start

• You have the date. For recurring holidays, the exact month and day matter and the year does not.
• You know it closes everything. A holiday affects every work center and every shift. Single-machine closures use a different tool (how to block a machine for a maintenance day).
• You know whether the closure is a whole day or part of one. Part-day closures use the partial holiday route.
• You can rerun the schedule. Existing jobs stay put until you do.

Step 1: Open the Plant Holidays Page

Open the Daily Hours tab from the main navigation, then select the inner Holiday tab. The Plant Holidays page opens with the subtitle "Plant-wide closures affecting all work centers and shifts."

The grid columns are S.#, Name, Description, Date, Recurring, Scope, Window, Active, and Actions. Scan the existing rows before adding: duplicate holiday records are common and harmless, but they clutter an audit.

Step 2: Click Add Holiday

Click Add Holiday. The Holiday dialog opens.

Step 3: Fill In the Fields

For a whole-day closure, leave Closes the whole day ticked and ignore the time fields entirely.

Step 4: Decide Whether It Recurs

Tick Recurring each year for fixed-date public holidays and fixed annual shutdown dates. One record then covers every future year, which is much safer than maintaining a row per year and discovering the gap in January.

Leave it unticked for anything that moves: a shutdown week tied to a particular weekday, a one-off closure, an inventory count day. Those need a fresh record each year, entered during an annual calendar review.

Step 5: Save

Click Save. The holiday appears in the grid with Scope set to Whole Day.

What Changes When You Save

That last row matters more than it looks. Quotes and production schedules share one engine and one calendar, so a holiday you add today is reflected in tomorrow's promise dates without any separate quoting setup.

How to Check It Worked

1. Find the new row on the Plant Holidays grid. Confirm Date, Recurring, Scope = Whole Day, and Active ticked.
2. Open the Resource Calendar and read any work center's total capacity on that date. It should be zero.
3. Run Drive Schedule.
4. Open the Gantt and confirm no allocation sits on the closed date. If one still does, see job scheduled on a holiday for the short list of causes.

Common Mistakes

Adding the holiday and not rerunning. The plan on screen was computed against the old calendar. Until Drive Schedule runs, the Gantt happily shows production on a day the plant is closed, and it is not wrong: it is stale.

A recurring holiday saved on the wrong month or day. Only the month and day are used for recurrence, so a one-day typo repeats forever. Audit the recurring rows once a year.

Using a plant holiday for one machine. A holiday closes the whole plant. Blocking a single machine for a teardown or certification day is a per-day capacity override on that work center, which leaves the rest of the plant running.

Forgetting next year's non-recurring holidays. A missing record means the scheduler plans production through a closed plant and promises a date nobody can hit. Build the annual calendar review into December.

Next

Whole-day closures are the easy case. When the plant loses only part of a day (an all-hands meeting, an early release, a union assembly), use a partial holiday so each shift is charged only its own overlap: how to schedule a half-day holiday. To stop the scheduler honoring a holiday while keeping the record, see how to turn off a plant holiday without deleting it. More single-task recipes are in the EDGEBIC how-to hub, and the platform overview is at /edgebic.