To read the operator calendar in EDGEBIC by User Solutions, open the Workcenter tab's Resource Calendar and set Show to Operators, or Both. This switches the calendar to the people lens: per-operator and per-skill-pool availability versus booked hours over time. Availability is the roster times the shift's daily hours, zeroed on time-off days; booked is the sum of the crew assignments. It is the human mirror of machine capacity, and it is where you diagnose why a skill-gated step slid past free machine hours.
This post covers reading the calendar. The forward crew list is a separate view, covered in how to use the operator dispatch board.
Before You Start
| Prerequisite | Why |
|---|---|
| Operators are certified and rostered | Availability comes from certifications and the roster |
| A scheduling run has completed | Booked hours come from the last run's crew assignments |
| You know the skill or person you are checking | The calendar shows both per-operator and per-skill-pool rows |
Step 1: Open the Resource Calendar in the People Lens
Open the Workcenter tab and go to the Resource Calendar. Set Show to Operators to see the people lens alone, or Both to see people alongside machine capacity. The calendar now presents availability and booked hours for operators over time.
Step 2: Read Availability Against Booked
Each cell pairs two numbers: availability and booked.
| Number | What it means |
|---|---|
| Availability | Operator-hours that exist: the roster times the shift's daily hours, zeroed on time-off days |
| Booked | Operator-hours the current plan has used, summed from crew assignments |
The gap between them is free capacity. When availability is above zero but booked equals it, the pool is full: a skill-gated step cannot land there and slides to the next window with room. This is the exact place an otherwise puzzling slide becomes legible.
Step 3: Read a Skill Pool Versus a Person
The calendar shows both per-operator rows and per-skill-pool rows. A pool row is the live sum of the member operators' cells for that skill. A multi-skilled operator appears in every pool they hold, with the same hours in each, because the pools are views over one budget, not separate budgets. Read the person's own row for their true daily budget, and the pool row for how that budget aggregates across everyone certified in the skill.
Step 4: Act on What You See
If a pool is empty on the days a step needed it, roster or certify more people on those days. If it is booked solid, the qualified capacity genuinely ran out and something has to move: a due date, a pin, or another certified person taking part of the load. The calendar does not decide for you; it shows the constraint clearly enough to decide.
What the Operator Calendar Reflects
| Aspect | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Availability source | Roster times shift daily hours, zeroed by time off |
| Booked source | Crew assignments from the last scheduling run |
| Skill pools | Live sums of member operators, not separate capacity |
| Nature | The plan's capacity picture, not an actuals record |
Because booked hours come from generated assignments, the calendar follows the plan and changes when it changes. The hour accounting behind availability and booked is described in how EDGEBIC books operator hours.
How to Check You Read It Right
A person's availability on a rostered day equals their shift's hours, and drops to zero on a recorded time-off day. A skill pool equals the sum of its certified, rostered members. If a multi-skilled operator's two pools show different numbers for the same day, something is off in the underlying data, because both pools draw on the same single budget.
Common Mistakes
- Reading booked as actuals. Booked is the plan. Who actually worked comes from kiosk punches.
- Treating each skill pool as separate capacity. Pools are views over one budget. A multi-skilled person is not double-counted.
- Reading the calendar before a run. With no scheduling run, booked hours have nothing to show.
- Ignoring an empty pool on the slide days. An empty pool is the cause of the slide, not a display quirk.
Next Steps
To hand out the plan the calendar reflects, use how to use the operator dispatch board. To add capacity when a pool is thin, start with how to build a weekly operator roster.
Every task in this library is indexed on the EDGEBIC how-to hub. To see a skill pool fill and empty as jobs book against it, book a walkthrough of EDGEBIC.
Expert Q&A: Deep Dive
Q: A skill-gated step scheduled days later than the machine's free hours suggested. Where does the operator calendar help us diagnose that?
A: Open the Resource Calendar with Show set to Operators and look at the skill pool for the days the machine was free. The calendar shows availability versus booked hours, so an empty or exhausted pool on those days is right there: the machine had hours, but nobody qualified had any left, which is why the step slid. That is the diagnosis. An unstaffed shift is unusable capacity for a skill-gated step, and the operator calendar is where that becomes visible. The fix follows from what you see: if the pool was empty, roster or certify more people on those days; if it was booked solid, the load genuinely exceeded the qualified capacity and something has to give. The calendar turns a confusing slide into a legible cause.
Q: A multi-skilled operator appears in two skill pools with the same hours. Are we double-counting their capacity?
A: No. The skill pool cells are views, not separate capacity stores. A person who holds two certifications appears in both pools with identical numbers because they are the same hours seen through two lenses, not two independent budgets. Booking them through one skill reduces what is left for the other, exactly like reality. This matters because the alternative, treating each skill as its own pool, would sell the same operator's day twice. The operator calendar deliberately shows the pool as a live sum of the member operators' cells, so a multi-skilled person contributes their one budget to every pool they belong to without inflating total capacity. Read the per-operator row for the true budget, and read the pool row for how that budget aggregates across a skill.
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