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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.
Deciding Who May Change the Schedule in EDGEBIC
Running the scheduler, dragging the Gantt, logging actuals, and editing actual dates are separate rights in EDGEBIC. Here is how to split them across your team.
Documenting Your Plant's EDGEBIC Conventions
The one-page conventions document every EDGEBIC site needs: naming rules, data ownership, mask sources, role definitions, and the scheduling policy decisions with their reasons.
Handing EDGEBIC Over to a New IT Owner
The handover pack for a new EDGEBIC owner: which database, who holds administrator access, where the backups are, which roles exist, and what to do when it will not start.
Handling ERP Part Number Revisions on Import
Whether a revision should create a new product in EDGEBIC or update the existing one, how identifier matching decides it, and how to stop revisions creating duplicate part records.
How a Dispatch List Replaces the Loudest Voice
When sequence is decided by whoever shouts, the plant pays in setups and late jobs. See how a due-date-driven dispatch list changes that, with the arithmetic.
How a Routing Snapshot Settles What You Actually Built
When a customer disputes how a part was made, the routing snapshot answers it. See how a frozen routing copy per job turns a claim into a records lookup.
How a Shared Plan Shortens the Daily Production Meeting
The daily production meeting runs long because it is really a data reconciliation session. See how one shared plan cuts it to ten minutes, with the arithmetic.
How a Shutdown Week Stops Breaking Your Promise Dates
Every shop promises into its own shutdown at least once. See how a plant holiday calendar removes those days from capacity before a quote goes out.
How Capacity Evidence Answers a New Machine Request
The we-need-another-machine argument is usually settled by conviction. See how utilization bands and a modeled reschedule settle it with numbers instead.