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How to Split a Job Across Two Machines in EDGEBIC
Split one routing step across two machines in EDGEBIC so a job finishes in roughly half the time. Set the step to independent parallel and add the second work center.
How to Turn Off the Prior-Operations Warning in EDGEBIC
How to handle the prior-operations warning in EDGEBIC: why the missing-priors prompt has no off switch, how to stop it firing, and which related drag warnings you can disable.
How to Unlock a Locked-Out User in EDGEBIC
Unlock a locked EDGEBIC account: an administrator selects the user on the Users tab and clicks Unlock, which clears the lockout immediately without waiting for the 15-minute timer.
How to Zoom the Gantt Timeline in EDGEBIC
Zoom the Gantt timeline in EDGEBIC: use the right-click timescale zoom, grow or shrink the horizon by a month, jump to Today, and switch Hour/Day/Week/Month views.
Lot Streaming Did Not Overlap My Operations: Causes and Fixes
You set up lot streaming but the downstream step still waits for the full upstream lot. The four documented reasons a transfer batch or flow lag stops working, and how to fix each.
My Actual Hours Did Not Reduce the Remaining Work: Causes and Fixes
Logging hours records them, but the remaining balance only recalculates on the next reschedule. Why logged hours can look like they had no effect, and how to make them count.
My Schedule Runs Too Far Into the Future: Causes and Fixes
A schedule that lands weeks or months out is almost always a capacity or start-date constraint, not a bug. How to find the constraint pushing your jobs out and clear it.
My Transfer Batch Size Was Ignored: Causes and Fixes
When a transfer batch size has no effect on the schedule, the cause is a continuous-process machine, a batch as large as the order, or a competing flow step. How to tell which.
Queue Time and Flow Time Are Fighting Each Other: Causes and Fixes
When a step has both queue time and a flow step, the flow gate replaces the queue buffer and the downstream step can start too early. Why it happens and how to set them so they cooperate.
The Optimizer Made My Schedule Worse: Why It Almost Never Did
The optimizer is clamped to be never worse than your current schedule, so a worse result is almost always a misread: a proposal not yet accepted, a different goal, or locked jobs.
The Same Machine Is Double-Booked Across Two Jobs: Causes and Fixes
You have confirmed a real cross-job collision on one machine instance. The documented root causes are stale reservations, a synchronized-mirror capacity gap, and a wrong instance count.
The Setup Matrix Is Not Being Applied: Causes and Fixes
When changeover times fall back to the routing default instead of your sequence-dependent matrix, the cause is a missing cell, an unassigned family, or stale entries. How to tell which.