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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.
Getting the Floor to Trust the Schedule
Shop floor schedule adoption is earned in the first three weeks, not in training. The six practices that build trust, and the three that quietly destroy it.
Global Shop Scheduling Gaps (And How EDGEBIC Fills Them)
Global Shop finite capacity scheduling gaps job shops report: infinite-capacity dates, flat work center capacity, sequence-dependent setups, slow quotes.
Global Shop to EDGEBIC: The Data Mapping Reference
Global Shop data export scheduling field by field: map items, work centers, routings, jobs and hours into EDGEBIC masks, with conversions and upsert rules.
Turning Changeover Hours Into Production Hours
Reduce changeover time in manufacturing by scheduling the sequence, not just the jobs. A documented 330-to-90-minute worked case, and the honest limits.
Where Lead Time Actually Goes, and How to Get It Back
Reduce manufacturing lead time by attacking waiting, not cutting. The four places elapsed time hides, the worked overlap arithmetic, and the honest limits.
Seeing Next Month's Overload This Month
Manufacturing capacity visibility means knowing which day breaks and why, weeks ahead. The capacity arithmetic, the views that show it, and the honest limits.
How Finite Capacity Scheduling Improves On-Time Delivery
Improve on time delivery in manufacturing by fixing the promise, not the promise-keeping. The mechanisms, the worked arithmetic, and the honest limits.
Quoting Dates You Can Actually Hit
Improve quote accuracy in manufacturing by simulating the job against real capacity. The worked cost and date arithmetic, and what a quote still cannot promise.
Keeping Promises When a Machine Goes Down
Production recovery after machine breakdown depends on rescheduling from what actually happened. The worked arithmetic of one failure, and the honest limits.
Getting More Out of the Machine That Sets Your Pace
Bottleneck utilization improvement comes from protecting the constraint, not pushing it. Load ratios, the anchor mechanism, and what scheduling cannot fix.
The End of the Daily Expedite List
Reduce expediting in manufacturing by removing its causes: impossible promises, invisible overloads, and priority that lives in heads instead of the plan.
When the Schedule Stops Changing Every Morning
Reduce schedule changes in manufacturing with scoped reschedules, preserved actuals, and deferred apply. The mechanisms, the audit trail, the honest limits.