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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.
Overlapping Operations with Lot Streaming: An EDGEBIC Example
A lot streaming production scheduling example: 1,000 pieces, cut then drill, and how a 100-piece transfer batch lets EDGEBIC save a full day of lead time.
A Machine Breaks at 10 AM: Rescheduling Without Losing the Morning
How to reschedule production after machine breakdown: a walkthrough where logged work stays frozen, the down day is skipped, and the job still ships early.
A Make-to-Stock Replenishment Cycle in EDGEBIC, Step by Step
Make to stock replenishment scheduling walkthrough: a safety-stock breach, a firmed build order, a 4.5-hour press run, and the receipt that restores stock.
The Paint-Booth Math: Sequence-Dependent Changeovers in EDGEBIC
Sequence dependent setup time scheduling, worked in full: six paint jobs, one booth, and how EDGEBIC's setup matrix cuts changeover from 630 to 90 minutes.
Half-Done Is Not Undone: Rescheduling Partially Completed Jobs in EDGEBIC
How to reschedule a partially completed production order: EDGEBIC locks 4 logged hours as history and forward-shifts the remaining 15.2, step by step.
Quote to Ship in EDGEBIC: A Custom Order's Complete Journey
Follow the quote to ship manufacturing process end to end in EDGEBIC: simulation, pricing, conversion, scheduling, shop-floor actuals, and on-time proof.
Reading the EDGEBIC Gantt: Planned vs Actual at a Glance
Read a planned vs actual Gantt chart in manufacturing: EDGEBIC keeps plan and real dates side by side, so every bar shows plan, reality, and progress.
Idle Gaps in the Schedule: Waste or By Design?
Gaps in a production schedule can be queue buffers, shift boundaries, or real waste. How to tell intentional gaps from lost capacity, and what to do about each.
Steps Scheduled Out of Sequence: Diagnosing Dependency Problems
Operations scheduled out of order have four causes: display sorting, intentional overlap, broken step links, or a real violation. How to tell them apart fast.
Modeling Sub-Assemblies on the EDGEBIC Design Canvas
Sub assembly routing scheduling in EDGEBIC: connect a component with its own routing into a parent and the scheduler explodes and times every level.
Scheduling Synchronized Multi-Spindle Operations in EDGEBIC
A synchronized machine scheduling walkthrough: three ganged drill heads start together, finish together, and mirror one parent schedule in EDGEBIC.
Scheduling Around the Bottleneck: A TOC Anchor Example in EDGEBIC
A theory of constraints scheduling example: EDGEBIC pins a bottleneck CNC to a target date, schedules feeders backward and finishers forward.