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How to Set Daily Working Hours and Breaks in EDGEBIC
How to set per-weekday start and end times on a shift in EDGEBIC, and the three correct ways to model a lunch break so capacity numbers stay honest.
How to Set Up an Overnight Shift in EDGEBIC (Crossing Midnight)
How to set up a shift that crosses midnight in EDGEBIC: enter the wrap-around times directly, understand which day the hours count on, and confirm it worked.
How to Start a Job on the Shop Floor Kiosk in EDGEBIC
Start a job on the shop floor kiosk: bind the terminal, tap through setup phases, hit START RUN, and stamp the operation's actual start automatically.
How to Switch a Product Between Make-to-Stock and Make-to-Order in EDGEBIC
Switch one product between make-to-stock and make-to-order in EDGEBIC: the build method setting, the stocked flag that must travel with it, and what to verify.
How to View a Customer's Order History in EDGEBIC
Open the Customer Order History dialog in EDGEBIC to see every manufacturing order and quote for one account, with due dates, status, and totals in one place.
My Imported Routing Came In Out of Order: Fixing the Step Links
An imported routing whose steps are misordered or disconnected traces to the sequence fields. How the two-pass import wires steps, why it broke, and how to fix each case.
My Job Finished After Its Due Date: Why, and What to Do
A job scheduled past its due date has a handful of documented causes: capacity, direction, the lead-time tail, or a promise that never fit. How to tell which, and the fix for each.
Setup Time Looks Wrong on a Job: Reading the Changeover Trail
A setup time that seems off usually traces to which resolver level fired. How to read the setup source, tell a matrix hit from a fallback, and fix a matrix that is not being applied.
The Gantt Is Blank After a Run: Display, Data, or a Failed Run
An empty Gantt after scheduling is usually a view problem: a date window, a job filter, or inverted actual dates. How to tell a hidden schedule from a run that produced nothing.
The Import Reported Failed Rows: Reading and Fixing Them
Failed rows in an import come from a short list of causes: a required cell blank, an unmapped mandatory field, or an abort setting. How to read the log and fix each.
The Schedule Ignored My Alternate Work Center: Why, and the Fix
An alternate machine that never gets used has a few documented causes: the primary was faster, the alternate is inactive, a planner pin overrode it, or it was configured as the wrong type.
Two Jobs on the Same Machine at the Same Time: Real or By Design?
Overlapping jobs on one machine are sometimes legitimate and sometimes a collision. How to tell a mirrored parallel operation from a genuine double-booking, and how to fix the real ones.