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Save vs Re-Schedule: Two Different Buttons on the EDGEBIC Gantt
Save records your dragged dates without re-checking capacity, while Re-Schedule re-plans only the jobs you touched. Knowing the difference is the key to the EDGEBIC Gantt.
Staging Schedule Changes: Save and Discard on the EDGEBIC Gantt
Staging schedule changes before saving keeps EDGEBIC edits safe: dragged bars go pending, nothing hits the database until Save Changes, and Discard reverts them all.
The Gantt Right-Click Menu: Every Operation Action in EDGEBIC
The EDGEBIC Gantt right-click menu puts exact moves, actuals logging, locking, and cleanup on one operation bar, so you can act precisely instead of dragging by eye.
The Job View Cockpit: One Job in Full Depth in EDGEBIC
The Job View tab in EDGEBIC is a single-job cockpit: a summary panel, an hours roll-up of total, actual, remaining, and percent complete, a per-operation grid, and its own Gantt strip.
The Lead-Time Tail: the EDGEBIC Gantt Bar You Cannot Drag
The lead-time tail on the EDGEBIC Gantt is a display-only bar between a job's last operation and its final availability date, so promised dates stay honest and it consumes no capacity.
How Drag and Drop Shows the Downstream Ripple
When you drag one operation in EDGEBIC, the later steps that may now be out of sequence turn amber. See how the downstream ripple works and how to clear it.
How the Designer Shows Sub-Assembly Branches
See how the EDGEBIC designer draws a sub-assembly branch: a star-marked node feeding a merge point, a routing that explodes at schedule time, and how to preview it.
How the Gantt Shows a Job Spanning Shifts
See how the EDGEBIC Gantt draws an operation across shifts and days: bars follow shift calendars, skip weekends and holidays, and split work across instances.
Reading Dependencies on the EDGEBIC Design Canvas
Learn to read routing dependencies on the EDGEBIC canvas: connector arrows carry next-in-sequence, branches merge, and a warning icon flags a broken chain.
Reading Operation Description Fields on a Gantt Bar
Every EDGEBIC Gantt bar caption is built from tokens: job, product, dates, and hours. Learn to read the operation description fields and set them per work center.
Reading the Work Center Lanes on the EDGEBIC Schedule
The EDGEBIC Gantt puts one lane per work center. Learn to read the lanes: bars stack per machine, instances share load, and moving between lanes reroutes a job.
Spotting a Bottleneck on the EDGEBIC Gantt
Learn to spot a bottleneck on the EDGEBIC Gantt: a lane packed wall to wall, work stacking upstream, and downstream operations flagged for review after a change.