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EDGEBIC Monthly Capacity Overrides Explained: Budgeting a Whole Season
How EDGEBIC monthly capacity overrides set a total-hours budget for a work center across a date range, spread it over available days, and rank against daily overrides.
Preventive Maintenance and EDGEBIC: Where the Service Window Meets the Plan
EDGEBIC does not track service intervals or warn operators. See where preventive maintenance genuinely meets the schedule, and how to protect the hours a service will take.
How Several Planners Share One EDGEBIC Database
How multi-user scheduling works in EDGEBIC: one shared database, per-user screen layouts, sign-in identity, refresh behavior, and what happens when two people save the same row.
EDGEBIC Sub-Assembly Scheduling Explained: One Job, Several Levels
How EDGEBIC schedules multi-level products: a component with its own routing is exploded into the parent job, timed to feed it, with hours and cost rolled up recursively.
EDGEBIC Units of Measure Explained: The Unit That Also Tells the Scheduler How to Count
How EDGEBIC units of measure work as master data: name, symbol, category, the default unit, and the scheduling behavior flag that ties a unit to hours or pieces.
EDGEBIC Actual Live Monitoring Explained: Progress on the Routing
How the EDGEBIC live actual view overlays real progress onto a job's routing diagram, so you watch actual against planned step by step on a read-only board that changes nothing.
EDGEBIC Daily Capacity Overrides Explained: Change One Day's Hours
How EDGEBIC lets you override a single work center's capacity for a single day, for overtime or a short shift, without editing the standing shift calendar, and how the override wins where it applies.
The EDGEBIC Gantt View Explained: Plan vs Actual on One Timeline
How the EDGEBIC Job Gantt view shows the plan and the reality on one bar chart, with routing dependencies drawn between operations and drag-to-reschedule that stages before it commits.
EDGEBIC Grid Layout Persistence Explained: Your Columns, Remembered
How EDGEBIC remembers each user's column widths, order, and sorting on every grid, and why a new column still shows up even after you have customized the layout.
EDGEBIC Manufacturing Orders Explained: The Job the Scheduler Plans
What a manufacturing order is in EDGEBIC, the fields that drive its scheduling, and how a job moves from created to scheduled to in progress to complete without losing its history.
The EDGEBIC Resource Calendar Explained: Pool Capacity at a Glance
How the EDGEBIC resource calendar sums the live capacity of a machine pool from its member work centers, so you see a group's true available hours without inventing any.
The EDGEBIC Resource Load View Explained: Seeing Load Against Capacity
How the EDGEBIC resource load view lays each work center's booked hours next to its real available hours, so overload and idle time are a picture you can act on, not a number you have to hunt for.