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The Status Strip and the Legend on the EDGEBIC Gantt
Two small parts of a production Gantt do the heaviest reading work: the per-bar status strip and the legend generated from your own state configuration.
What Decides Which Operations Appear on the EDGEBIC Gantt
The schedule board is a filtered picture, not the whole database. The five gates that decide whether an operation draws a bar, in the order worth checking them.
What Each Segment of a Gantt Bar Means in EDGEBIC
Read a Gantt bar segment by segment: setup, run, queue, teardown, and move time, plus the display toggles that decide which parts of an operation you see.
What Happens When You Resize a Gantt Bar in EDGEBIC
Stretching a schedule bar records dates, not hours. What a resize actually writes in EDGEBIC, what it leaves alone, and when to change the routing step instead.
Why a Gantt Bar Will Not Move in EDGEBIC
A Gantt bar that refuses to drag is telling you something. The five reasons a bar is locked in EDGEBIC, what each one protects, and how to release it safely.
Auto Re-Sequencing: Closing the Gap After a Gantt Drag in EDGEBIC
Auto re-sequencing in EDGEBIC pushes later operations on the same machine forward after you drag a bar, so the queue stays tight, with every pushed operation staged in the same pending set.
Filtering the EDGEBIC Gantt to the Jobs That Matter
Filter a production Gantt chart in EDGEBIC with the job checkboxes, search box, and date window, so a crowded plant schedule narrows to the one job or handful of jobs you care about.
How a Reschedule Protects Completed Work in EDGEBIC
Completed operations are never moved by a reschedule in EDGEBIC: the completed shade marks finished work, actuals stay put, and only unstarted steps are re-planned around history.
Moving an Operation to Another Machine on the EDGEBIC Gantt
Reassign an operation to another work center in EDGEBIC by dragging its bar to a different lane: the move stages as pending, saves as Resource Replaced, and can survive the next reschedule.
Planned Start Pins: Parking a Future Operation Without Faking an Actual
A planned start pin in EDGEBIC holds a future operation on a chosen date and machine without recording an actual, so the next reschedule honors your intent and the pin dissolves once real work begins.
Reading the Resource Load View to Spot an Overload in EDGEBIC
The Resource Load view in EDGEBIC is a live bar chart of capacity versus booked hours per work center, so a bar above 100 percent is your overload warning at a glance.
Reading the Schedule Audit Trail: Who Moved This Job in EDGEBIC
Every drag, reschedule, and machine swap on the EDGEBIC Gantt writes to a production schedule audit trail, so you can answer who moved a job, when, and by how many days.