How to Complete an Operation in EDGEBIC

To complete an operation in EDGEBIC by User Solutions, stamp its actual end: tap COMPLETE OPERATION at the shop floor terminal, or set the Actual End on the planner desktop. Completion is explicit. Logging hours never closes a step by itself, and that separation is deliberate, because a completed operation becomes immovable history that the next reschedule will not touch.

The full logging workflow around this one action is in how to log actual hours and pieces.

Before You Start

Path A: Completing at the Terminal

1. Tap COMPLETE OPERATION on the running screen. The same action is available as COMPLETE from the paused screen.
2. If earlier operations on the job have no actuals, the prior work centers check runs here exactly as it does at run start. Cancel to log them properly, or OK to auto-log them from plan.
3. The open punch closes, the day-by-day production hours roll up, and the operation's actual end is stamped at that moment.
4. The terminal returns to its idle screen showing the next queued job.

Server time is used throughout. The operator never types a completion time from the terminal.

Path B: Completing on the Planner Desktop

Three routes write the same value.

The grid cell. Double-click the row's Actual End cell in the Job View grid. The Edit Actual Dates dialog offers End = Now for the current moment and Use Sched End to copy the planned end. Save.

The Log Actuals dialog. Open Log Actuals for the operation, enter any remaining hours for the final day, tick the option to mark the operation complete, optionally supply an exact completion time, and click Save.

The Gantt. Right-click the operation's bar on the Schedule View tab and take the Edit Actual Dates route.

Step 3: Understand What Time Gets Stored

Two rules govern the stored end.

• Supply a time and that time is used. No adjustment is applied.
• Complete without a time and the end snaps to 23:59 of the last day that has logged hours. This is why a step started at 08:00 and completed the same afternoon never ends up finishing before it began.

An end that is not strictly after the start is refused at every entry point. An inverted pair is always a data-entry error, most often a date picker sitting on the wrong year.

What Changes When You Save

The end-product roll-up only reports 100 percent when every operation is done, so finishing one step early never flags the whole job complete. Closing out the order itself is a separate action, covered in how to mark a whole job complete.

How to Check It Worked

Open the Job View grid and read the operation's row: the Actual End column carries the value you expect and the bar shows the completed shade. In the Actual Live view the step's card reads Complete rather than Running. Then run your reschedule and check the same row again. The actual start and actual end must be identical to what they were before the run. That comparison is the whole promise, and it is described in how EDGEBIC preserves completed work on reschedule.

Common Mistakes

• Assuming logged hours close the step. They mark it as covered on screen. They do not stamp an end, and reports that filter on the end date will not see it.
• Completing before the hours are entered. The end-of-day snap uses the last day that has logged hours, so a premature completion can land on the wrong day. Enter the final day's hours, then complete.
• Completing an operation whose predecessors were never logged. The prompt will tell you. Accepting the backfill stamps planned values as facts on steps that may not have run.
• Fixing a mistaken completion by rescheduling. A reschedule will faithfully preserve the wrong completion. Reopen the operation first, then reschedule.
• Completing a step that shows Running forever. If the planned hours exceed what the job really needed, the step never crosses the covered-hours threshold. Stamp the end explicitly, or correct the routing so the next job is planned honestly.

Next Steps

If the completion was wrong, how to reopen a completed operation reverses it. If the completion was right but the dates were not, how to correct a wrong actual date covers the fix. If the step finished with fewer hours than planned, read how to record a partially finished operation.

The whole task library is indexed on the EDGEBIC how-to hub. Bring a job that is halfway through its routing to a demo of EDGEBIC and we will close a step and reschedule around it live.