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Insights on production scheduling, lean manufacturing, and manufacturing software from 35+ years of industry experience.
How the platform actually works: scheduling, optimization, the shop floor and ERP data.
Planning a Month of Preventive Maintenance and Scheduling Around It
A preventive maintenance walkthrough in EDGEBIC: list what is due, pick the cheapest days from the utilization heatmap, block the hours, and reschedule.
Rescheduling Around a Late Material Delivery, Start to Finish
A late material delivery walkthrough in EDGEBIC: move the material's ready date, reschedule one job, read the new promise, and reclaim the freed capacity.
Shipping a Step Out to a Plating Vendor and Back: A Transit Days Walkthrough
An outside operation scheduling walkthrough in EDGEBIC: model a plating vendor's turnaround with transit days, pick calendar or working days, and watch the job's finish date move.
A Multi-Day Job Spanning Day and Night Shifts in EDGEBIC
Follow one 40-hour milling job across a day shift and a night shift and into a second day in EDGEBIC, with the capacity formula, shift priority, and load balancing shown.
Adding a Second Shift to Break a Bottleneck in EDGEBIC
Find the bottleneck, add a night shift to it in the Work Centers editor, reschedule, and watch a week of late heat-treat jobs recover, with the capacity math shown before and after.
Backward Scheduling a Job From Its Due Date in EDGEBIC
Schedule a 40-piece order backward so it finishes just in time, reserve the delivery lead time, and see what happens when the plan does not fit, with full date arithmetic.
Building a Master Production Schedule in EDGEBIC, Bucket by Bucket
Read the MPS grid for a stocked product, catch a projected stockout, commit a build quantity, and firm it into a scheduled build-to-stock order in EDGEBIC, with every number shown.
Exporting a Committed Schedule for the Shop Floor in EDGEBIC
Commit a schedule, then hand it to the floor: export the Job View and per-work-center grids to Excel snapshots and read the dispatch list, with an honest note on what exports and what does not.
From a Sales Order to a Scheduled Job in EDGEBIC
Enter a customer sales order, confirm it, link it to a manufacturing order, schedule the job, and track it under the customer in the grouped order view, with every field and status shown.
Importing Master Data With Excel Masks, Then Scheduling It in EDGEBIC
Import work centers, products, and routings from Excel with reusable import masks, then generate a finite capacity schedule, with every column mapping and number shown.
Lights-Out Machining: One Operator Starting Seven Machines in EDGEBIC
Model setup-only staffing so one certified operator can start seven CNC mills in a day and let them run unattended, using the operator attend fraction, with the hour math shown.
Running a Weekend on a Capacity Override to Hit a Due Date in EDGEBIC
Recover a job that would finish late over a closed weekend by adding a Saturday capacity override, and watch EDGEBIC create a synthetic override-day slot and place the work there.