How to Resume a Job From Where the Shop Actually Is in EDGEBIC

To resume a job from where the shop actually is in EDGEBIC, log the actuals on its finished and running steps, then reschedule the job. EDGEBIC by User Solutions sets a resume point from those actuals and replans every not-started step forward from it, while completed steps stay frozen and only the remaining hours of a running step move. The habit is simple: log first, reschedule second.

This is the resume procedure. For what a reschedule preserves, read how EDGEBIC preserves completed work on reschedule; for a full narrative, see the partial completion reschedule walkthrough. It is one of the task guides in the EDGEBIC how-to hub.

Before You Start

The Three Zones

Every operation of the job falls into one zone, and resuming treats each differently:

Step by Step

1. Log the actuals. At the kiosk or in the actuals path, record the real start and end of completed steps and the real start plus logged hours of the running step. See how to log actual hours and pieces for the mechanics.
2. Reschedule the job. Tick the job on the Drive Schedule tab and press Schedule + Re-Schedule, or use the Re-Schedule button on the Job View tab for that single job.
3. Confirm the prompt and let the pass complete.

The engine reads your actuals, sets the resume point to the later of the last completed step's real end and any in-progress step's projected end, and queues the not-started steps behind it.

A Worked Resume

Take a three-step job planned to run cut, mill, then assemble on a day shift. The saw hit a blade change and step 1 actually ran Monday 09:15 to 14:00 instead of the planned 08:00 to 12:30. Steps 2 and 3 have no actuals.

You log step 1 and reschedule. The engine:

1. Preserves step 1 verbatim at Monday 09:15 to 14:00.
2. Sets the resume point to Monday 14:00, step 1's real end.
3. Replans step 2 forward from Monday 14:00 on the mill, spilling across shifts as needed.
4. Replans step 3 behind step 2, respecting any queue time and the assembly calendar.

The job's end moves out to a date you can promise, and step 1's bar never moved a minute.

How to Check It Worked

1. Open the job in Job View and confirm the completed step shows exactly the actual start and end you logged.
2. Confirm the not-started steps now begin at or after the resume point, not at their old planned times.
3. Read the hours header. Actual Hours must be unchanged by the reschedule; only planned timing moves.
4. Press Job Audit to see the reschedule event with the job's old end next to its new end.

When to Resume and When to Leave It

Resuming is the right move whenever the floor has drifted from the plan and the drift matters downstream. A step that ran long, a blade change that ate a morning, a job that started late: each of these makes the old plan optimistic, and resuming replaces the optimism with a date you can actually promise. Shops that resume on a daily rhythm against fresh actuals keep their promise dates honest.

There are cases where you leave it alone. If a job is fully complete, resuming does nothing useful; the engine recognizes it as done and writes it back unchanged. If the drift is tiny and no downstream step or due date is affected, a reschedule just churns the plan for no gain. And if the actuals are not yet logged, resuming would replan against fiction, which is worse than not resuming at all.

The discipline that makes resuming trustworthy is the same one that makes any reschedule trustworthy: log reality first, then let the engine replan the future around it. Thirty seconds on the audit trail afterward confirms what moved and what did not before a customer asks.

Common Mistakes and Gotchas

• Rescheduling before logging. The resume point comes from actuals. If the floor moved on and nobody logged it, the job resumes from fiction. Log first.
• Expecting an in-progress step to become two operations. It stays one row whose window spans the logged portion and the replanned remainder. That is by design.
• Thinking completed steps moved. They cannot. If dates look different, check whether a different row of the same step's work center pair changed, using Job Audit.
• Missing early steps that were never logged. If a later step has actuals but earlier ones do not, the engine infers the earlier ones ran and backfills them, so the resume point stays honest. Log what you can to keep it accurate.

For the wider reschedule story, read EDGEBIC rescheduling explained, and to understand a step that finished with fewer hours than planned, see how to configure scheduling policy. When the resume is triggered by a machine returning to service, how to reschedule after a machine comes back online is the companion recipe.

Bring a job that ran off plan and we will resume it against your data in one session. Contact US to book it, or read the EDGEBIC product overview first.