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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.
Scheduling Sub-Assemblies That Feed Several Jobs
Sub assembly scheduling manufacturing in EDGEBIC: one component routing feeding many parents, ordering on shared machines, and the build-to-stock decision.
What an Unreliable Schedule Actually Costs You
The cost of poor production scheduling shows up in eight places, none of them on a report. Here is where each one hides and how to price it in your own plant.
What Changes in the First 30 Days
Your first month with production scheduling software, week by week: what you observe, what surprises people, and what has not changed yet by day 30.
What Changes by Day 90
Scheduling software implementation results at 90 days: which numbers have moved, which capabilities are worth switching on now, and how to measure honestly.
The Data You Need Before You Schedule Anything
The data required for scheduling software, in dependency order, with the accuracy test for each item and an honest estimate of the work to get it ready.
Six Signs Your Shop Has Outgrown the Whiteboard
When to replace whiteboard scheduling: six specific signals, the test for each, and why the whiteboard should stay on the wall even after you move the decisions.
Who Does What After the Scheduler Goes Live
The production planner role changes with scheduling software, and so do four others. Here is the daily and weekly split that keeps a schedule accurate.
A Fourth Shift Site's First Week With EDGEBIC (An Illustrative Walkthrough)
An illustrative Fourth Shift site scheduling rollout, day by day: legacy exports, tooling constraints, knowledge captured in a model, and honest dates.
A JobBOSS Shop's First Week With EDGEBIC (An Illustrative Walkthrough)
An illustrative 40-person JobBOSS shop scheduling improvement, day by day: exports, import masks, the first honest schedule, and what typically changes.
Eight Production Actuals Mistakes (and the Symptom Each One Produces)
Production actuals mistakes that quietly corrupt a schedule: weekly logging, habitual backfill, sibling edits, unstamped completions, and how to spot each.
An Epicor Plant's First Week With EDGEBIC (An Illustrative Walkthrough)
An illustrative Epicor plant scheduling improvement, day by day: scope, exports, resource groups, the first finite capacity plan, and the parallel run.
Available to Promise in EDGEBIC: The Calculation Behind a Safe Answer
The available to promise calculation tells sales what is still free to sell. Here is how EDGEBIC computes discrete and cumulative ATP, negatives included.