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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.
Why Your ERP Sync Belongs on a Server, Not a Workstation
By default any open EDGEBIC workstation can dispatch scheduled integrations. On a shared database that is the wrong place for them. What the always-on sync host does and how to hand hosting over to it.
A Make-to-Stock Product Cannot Hold Inventory: Causes and Fixes
When a make-to-stock product has the stocked flag off, builds post no receipts and nothing nets against it. How to spot the mismatch and turn stocking back on.
A Monthly ERP to EDGEBIC Data Audit
A 45 minute monthly audit that catches the slow drift a per-import check misses: phantom work centers, stale jobs, reverted instance counts, and standard times reality has moved past.
A Product Yield Value Is Out of Range: Causes and Fixes
Yield must sit between zero and one. A yield of zero blocks the build quantity calculation and a yield above one inflates nothing. How to spot and correct both.
A Run Failed With a Resource Shift Mismatch: Causes and Fixes
A shift mismatch means a slot was allocated and then rejected because it fell outside every configured shift. How it differs from no capacity and how to fix it.
A Satisfied-From-Stock Job Did Not Draw Down Inventory: Causes and Fixes
When a job is marked satisfied from stock but the ledger shows no consumption, on-hand is overstated. Why the issue entry goes missing and how to post it.
A Satisfied-From-Stock Job Still Shows a Work Center Row: Causes and Fixes
A fully covered job should carry one material-shaped row and no machine work. Why a work center row appears on it and what it breaks downstream.
A Work Center Is Booked Past Its Shift Design: Causes and Fixes
A warning that daily bookings exceed the shift-design cap means planned overtime or a stale shift setting, not a physically impossible schedule. How to tell which.
Anomaly Checks Show Nothing When I Filter to One Job: Causes and Fixes
Inventory and setup matrix anomaly checks return no rows on a single-job scan because they are plant-wide. How to read the chip strip and pick the right scope.
Choosing a Safe Change Window in EDGEBIC
Which EDGEBIC admin changes need everyone signed out, which take effect at the next sign-in, and which land on the next scheduler run. A timing table for planning your changes.
Choosing the System of Record for Each Scheduling Field
Decide which fields your ERP owns and which EDGEBIC owns before the second import: the mapping rule that stops a nightly export from overwriting your machine counts and setups.
Deciding Which ERP Work Orders to Import
How to filter an ERP work order export for scheduling: which statuses belong in the plan, why MRP planned orders usually do not, and why a status filter beats a date window.