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How to See a Work Center Group's Pooled Load in EDGEBIC
Read the Resource Calendar in EDGEBIC to see a machine pool's capacity against its load: the group row is a live sum of its member machines, day by day.
How to Set Import Options for a Mask in EDGEBIC
Set import options for a mask in EDGEBIC: open the Options dialog to control update versus reuse, stop-on-error, auto-create, and the actuals-specific toggles.
How to Set Up Sequence-Dependent Setup Times in EDGEBIC
Set up a sequence-dependent setup matrix in EDGEBIC: create setup families, assign products, and fill the from-to changeover grid so the plan tells the truth.
How to Add an ECN Number to a Product in EDGEBIC
How to record an engineering change notice number, notes, and manufacturer part details on a product in EDGEBIC for change-control traceability.
How to Block a Time Window Across a Whole Shift in EDGEBIC
How to block a time window for every work center on a shift in EDGEBIC using a partial plant holiday, for an all-hands meeting or a plant-wide power interruption.
How to Clear a Job's Schedule in EDGEBIC
How to wipe the plan for selected jobs in EDGEBIC with Clear Schedule, what it deletes, what it keeps, and the side effect on completed jobs to watch for.
How to Close One Shift for a Holiday in EDGEBIC
How to close a single shift for a holiday in EDGEBIC using per-day capacity overrides, so the night crew gets a day off while the day shift keeps running normally.
How to Find Scheduling Conflicts in the Gantt in EDGEBIC
How to spot over-allocated time slots in the Job View Gantt in EDGEBIC, where the conflict count appears, and why a clean scheduler run should show none.
How to Mark a Job as Started in EDGEBIC
How to flag a manufacturing order as In Progress from the Orders grid in EDGEBIC, what that status does, and why it is not the same as logging actual hours.
How to Rename a Work Center in EDGEBIC
How to rename a work center in EDGEBIC and update the routing steps that reference it, so the scheduler still matches the machine and does not leave steps with no resources.
How to Schedule Only the Jobs on One Sales Order in EDGEBIC
How to scope a scheduling run to a single sales order in EDGEBIC using the sales order filter, so only those jobs replan and the rest of the plan is preserved.
How to See a Job's Step-by-Step Schedule in EDGEBIC
How to open the Schedule Job BOR view in EDGEBIC to see every operation of one job, the work center it landed on, and its planned and actual times.