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How Customer Service Answers Where Is My Order
The status call costs more than it looks: two interruptions and a callback. See how order progress reporting answers it in 30 seconds, with the arithmetic.
How Downtime Reason Codes Build the Maintenance Case
Maintenance spend usually follows whoever complains loudest. See how reason-coded downtime turns lost hours into a ranked case, with arithmetic and limits.
How Real Capacity Data Lets You Turn Down the Wrong Order
Saying yes to every order is how a good backlog goes late. See how quote simulation shows what an order costs the jobs you already have, before you accept it.
How Routing Cleanup Buys Back Hours You Already Paid For
Most shops carry recoverable hours inside their own routings. See how a ranked suggestions report finds them, what each rule means, and what it will not do.
How Sub-Assembly Visibility Ends the Late-Component Surprise
The parent job looks small because the work lives one level down. See how exploding sub-assemblies into one plan removes the feeder scramble, with numbers.
How the Production Record Shortens a Quality Investigation
A quality investigation is mostly reconstruction. See how machine, operator, shift, and scrap records narrow containment fast, with the arithmetic.
How to Assign a Unit of Measure to an Existing Product in EDGEBIC
Assign a unit of measure to an existing product in EDGEBIC so grids, reports, and shop floor screens show the right symbol instead of a blank unit column.
How to Batch Your Gantt Edits Before Saving in EDGEBIC
Set the scheduler update mode in EDGEBIC so Gantt drags accumulate as pending changes and commit together on Save Changes, with an out-of-sequence warning after the save.
How to Choose the Pieces Per Hour Rate for Actuals in EDGEBIC
Pick which pieces per hour rate EDGEBIC uses to derive hours from pieces when logging actuals, apply an observed daily rate, or revert to the routing default.
How to Clear Actuals for a Work Center From a Date Forward in EDGEBIC
Use the EDGEBIC Gantt right-click menu to clear actual start and end dates from a point in time across every job on one work center, then reschedule the remaining work.
How to Color a Routing Node in the Designer in EDGEBIC
Color a routing node in the EDGEBIC designer using the properties panel fill, border, and text colors, and keep node styling separate from work center Gantt colors.
How to Compare Quoted Hours Against Actual Hours in EDGEBIC
Use the Lifetime Accuracy panel on a converted EDGEBIC quote to compare the hours you estimated at quote time against the hours the job actually consumed.