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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.
Overtime as a Decision, Not a Surprise
Reduce manufacturing overtime by finding the overload weeks early and removing the hours that caused it. Worked capacity arithmetic and the honest limits.
Less WIP Without Less Output
Reduce work in process manufacturing by controlling when jobs start, not how fast they run. Backward scheduling arithmetic, overlap, and the honest limits.
From All-Day Replan to a Coffee Break
Reduce production planning time by automating the arithmetic and keeping the judgement. Where planner hours go, what a run replaces, and what stays manual.
How Much Capacity Are You Already Losing?
Hidden capacity loss in manufacturing comes from five sources. Here is the arithmetic to size each one at your own work centers before you buy anything.
How to Calculate Scheduling Software Payback (With Your Own Numbers)
A scheduling software payback calculation you can defend: four measured inputs, the arithmetic, a worked example, and the assumptions that change the answer.
Infor Scheduling Gaps (And How EDGEBIC Fills Them)
Infor finite capacity scheduling gaps plants report: infinite-capacity dates, flat work center capacity, sequence-dependent setups, slow what-if answers.
Infor to EDGEBIC: The Data Mapping Reference
Infor data export scheduling field by field: map items, work centers, routings, orders and reported hours into EDGEBIC masks, with conversions and upsert rules.
Deciding What Runs First
Production job priority sequencing in EDGEBIC works in three layers: the dispatch order, the slot strategy inside a machine, and the optimizer's orderings.
Why a Stable Schedule Beats a Perfect One
Production schedule stability in EDGEBIC comes from six mechanisms: immutable actuals, frozen routings, mode blast radius, machine locks and a stability goal.
Scheduling Work That Moves Between Plants
Multi plant production scheduling transit in EDGEBIC: departments, per-machine calendars and routing transit days schedule work that travels between sites.
When to Schedule in Pieces Instead of Hours
Pieces based capacity scheduling in EDGEBIC: how hours, pieces and both differ, when an output rate should override routing hours, and the zero-rate trap.
The Real Risks in a Scheduling Implementation (and How to Reduce Them)
Scheduling software implementation risks ranked by how often they actually bite: bad routing data, unowned roles, scope creep, and the mitigation for each.