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Insights on production scheduling, lean manufacturing, and manufacturing software from 35+ years of industry experience.
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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.
The Feature Interactions That Surprise People
Scheduling feature conflicts manufacturing planners hit in EDGEBIC: fourteen documented interactions across overlap, changeovers, pools, direction, operators.
Building the Business Case for Scheduling Software
A business case for production scheduling software your CFO will accept: the four numbers to measure, the costs to include, and the claims to leave out.
Overlapping Operations When Changeovers Are Sequence-Dependent
The lot streaming setup time interaction in EDGEBIC: piece-count overlap uses the resolved changeover, so resequencing a machine moves every downstream start.