How to Schedule Around a Planned Shutdown Week in EDGEBIC

To schedule around a planned shutdown week in EDGEBIC, add a whole-day plant holiday for each closed day of the week, mark them recurring if the shutdown repeats annually, then reschedule the affected jobs. EDGEBIC by User Solutions removes those dates from every work center's capacity, so a rescheduled job flows its work before and after the closure. A holiday record covers one date, so a five-day shutdown is five records.

This is the shutdown procedure. For a single closure, see how to add a plant holiday in EDGEBIC; for the calendar mechanics, read EDGEBIC shifts and calendars explained. It is one of the task guides in the EDGEBIC how-to hub.

Before You Start

Step One: Add a Whole-Day Holiday Per Closed Day

1. Open the Daily Hours tab, then the inner Holiday tab. The Plant Holidays page opens.
2. Click Add Holiday.
3. Enter a Name, for example "Summer Shutdown Mon", and the Date for the first closed day.
4. Leave Closes the whole day checked so the entire day is blocked for every work center and shift.
5. If the shutdown repeats every year, tick Recurring each year. Recurring holidays match on month and day, so only those matter.
6. Confirm Active is checked, then Save. The grid shows Scope as Whole Day.
7. Repeat for each remaining working day of the shutdown week. Weekends the plant already does not work need no holiday.

Step Two: Reschedule the Affected Jobs

Saving holidays changes the calendar but moves nothing on its own.

1. On the Drive Schedule tab, tick the jobs whose work overlaps or runs near the shutdown week.
2. Press Schedule + Re-Schedule.
3. Confirm the dialog and let the pass complete.

The engine now treats the shutdown days as unavailable and replans the affected jobs so their operations land before or after the closed week.

What Changes When You Save

How to Check It Worked

1. On the Plant Holidays grid, confirm each shutdown day is listed with Scope as Whole Day and, for an annual shutdown, Recurring ticked.
2. Open an affected job in Job View and confirm no operation lands on any shutdown day.
3. Confirm the job's finish moved out by the length of the closure, which is expected.
4. Spot-check a work center's capacity view for the shutdown week and confirm it shows zero available hours.

A Worked Shutdown

The plant closes the first full week of August for annual maintenance, Monday through Friday. The plant already does not run weekends, so those two days need nothing.

On the Plant Holidays page you add five whole-day holidays, one per working day: Monday through Friday of that week, each with Closes the whole day checked and Recurring each year ticked because the shutdown repeats every summer. The grid now lists five rows, each with Scope reading Whole Day and Recurring marked.

Then you tick the jobs whose work runs anywhere near that week and press Schedule + Re-Schedule. A job that would have milled Tuesday now finds no capacity there, so the engine flows that work to the Friday before or the Monday after, and its finish moves out by the length of the closure. A job that could finish entirely before the shutdown is untouched by the closure, because its operations never needed those days.

Because the holidays are recurring, next August the closure is already in the calendar. You do not re-enter anything; you simply reschedule as the dates approach and the plant closure is honored automatically. Confirm the result by scanning a work center's capacity view for the shutdown week, where every day should read zero available hours.

Common Mistakes and Gotchas

• Expecting one record to cover the week. A holiday covers a single date. Enter one whole-day holiday per closed working day.
• Saving holidays but not rescheduling. The plan computed against the old calendar still stands. Reschedule the affected jobs after adding the holidays.
• A work center on a custom calendar. Global plant holidays cover work centers on the global calendar. A machine with its own calendar follows its own rules; handle it with a per-day capacity override or its own closures.
• Forgetting Recurring for an annual shutdown. Without it, you re-enter the holidays every year and risk a gap. Tick Recurring each year so the closure repeats automatically.
• Leaving a holiday Inactive. An unticked Active box keeps the record but the scheduler ignores it, so the plant does not actually close.

For a single machine's closure rather than a plant-wide one, see how to block a machine for a maintenance day, and for a reduced-hours day, how to schedule a half-day holiday. After adding the closure, how to reschedule only the jobs that changed keeps the plant-wide replan tight.

Bring your shutdown dates and job list and we will plan around them against your data in one session. Contact US to book it, or read the EDGEBIC product overview first.