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How to Set a Work Center Effective Date in EDGEBIC
Set an effective date on a work center in EDGEBIC so a machine you have not commissioned yet can be routed today and only offers capacity from the day it arrives.
How to Turn Off a Plant Holiday Without Deleting It in EDGEBIC
Untick Active on a plant holiday in EDGEBIC to stop the scheduler honoring it while keeping the record. When to deactivate, when to delete, and what changes on the next run.
How to Turn Off Lot Streaming on a Step in EDGEBIC
Return a routing step to strict serial flow in EDGEBIC by zeroing Transfer Batch and Flow Step. What comes back, what queue time does next, and how to confirm the overlap is gone.
How to Assign a Unit of Measure to an Existing Product in EDGEBIC
Assign a unit of measure to an existing product in EDGEBIC so grids, reports, and shop floor screens show the right symbol instead of a blank unit column.
How to Batch Your Gantt Edits Before Saving in EDGEBIC
Set the scheduler update mode in EDGEBIC so Gantt drags accumulate as pending changes and commit together on Save Changes, with an out-of-sequence warning after the save.
How to Choose the Pieces Per Hour Rate for Actuals in EDGEBIC
Pick which pieces per hour rate EDGEBIC uses to derive hours from pieces when logging actuals, apply an observed daily rate, or revert to the routing default.
How to Clear Actuals for a Work Center From a Date Forward in EDGEBIC
Use the EDGEBIC Gantt right-click menu to clear actual start and end dates from a point in time across every job on one work center, then reschedule the remaining work.
How to Color a Routing Node in the Designer in EDGEBIC
Color a routing node in the EDGEBIC designer using the properties panel fill, border, and text colors, and keep node styling separate from work center Gantt colors.
How to Compare Quoted Hours Against Actual Hours in EDGEBIC
Use the Lifetime Accuracy panel on a converted EDGEBIC quote to compare the hours you estimated at quote time against the hours the job actually consumed.
How to Convert Several Quotes to Orders at Once in EDGEBIC
Select accepted quotes in EDGEBIC and use Convert Selected to Orders to create one manufacturing order per eligible quote, then schedule the new jobs in a single run.
How to Customize the Dashboard KPI Tiles in EDGEBIC
Use Dashboard Configuration in EDGEBIC to choose which KPI tiles appear, tune the green and red thresholds, set tile colors, and set an auto-refresh interval.
How to Deactivate a Product Category in EDGEBIC
Deactivate a product category in EDGEBIC to retire it from the picker without losing history, and clean up the products still carrying the retired grouping.