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Migrating Quotes and Quote History to EDGEBIC
Old quoted dates are not worth re-creating, and there is no quote import anyway. Here is what to do with historical quotes, how to bring live ones across, and the two cost settings to fix first.
Your First 30 Days on EDGEBIC After Cutover
The migration ends at cutover; the habits start there. A four-week plan for the period that decides whether planners trust the schedule or drift back to the spreadsheet.
Migrating Operators and Skills to EDGEBIC
Operators, skills, certifications, rosters and time off are all entered in the interface rather than imported. Here is the order to build them in, and how to prove a certification is gating the schedule.
What EDGEBIC Cannot Import, and How to Handle It
Eight kinds of data come in on an import mask. Everything else is built in the interface. Knowing which is which before you plan a migration keeps you from waiting on a bulk load that does not exist.
Who You Need on Your EDGEBIC Migration Team
A scheduling migration needs six roles, and only two of them are technical. Here is who does what, which decisions cannot be delegated, and the one role that is most often missing.
Migrating Work Center Groups to EDGEBIC
Machine pools are created by hand in EDGEBIC, not imported. Here is how to turn the alternate lists repeated across your old routings into groups, and why you import the routings first.
Migrating Your Setup Matrix to EDGEBIC
Sequence-dependent setup times are configured per work center in EDGEBIC, and the editor can import a matrix or take it by hand. Here is the order to enter them in, and how to verify the matrix is live.
An OEE Week on One Machine: 40 Hours In, 65.5% Out
A worked OEE calculation example: one CNC machine, 40 available hours, one lost day, and how availability, performance, and quality multiply out to 65.5%.
An Operation Shows Running Forever Though All Hours Are Logged
A step stays in progress after every hour is logged because completion is an explicit stamp, not an hours threshold. How to close it and stop it recurring.
Another User Changed This Record: Causes and Fixes
EDGEBIC refuses a save when the record moved after you loaded it. The usual cause is a colleague, but the message also appears when you are alone. How to read it and what to do.
Deciding ERP Import Frequency by Data Type
Set a refresh cadence per data type instead of one global schedule: why work orders come daily, routings come on change, and why re-importing everything nightly costs more than it gives.
Handling an ERP Export That Changed Column Order
When an ERP export adds, moves, or renames columns, here is how an EDGEBIC import mask reacts, which changes are safe, and the ten-minute repair that keeps the schedule honest.