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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.
Protecting Administrator Access in EDGEBIC
Why every EDGEBIC site needs two administrators, what the founding account can and cannot do, and how to keep admin access working when the person holding it leaves.
Reconciling ERP Work Order Quantities After Partial Completion
How to import work order quantities from an ERP once a job is partly finished: original versus remaining quantity, avoiding double subtraction, and closing jobs that leave the export.
Running a Restore Drill for Your EDGEBIC Database
A backup you have never restored is a hypothesis. Here is a one-hour EDGEBIC restore drill: restore into a separate database, verify the plan, and record how long it took.
Scheduling a Shop That Runs Two ERPs
One shop floor, two systems of record: how to feed both into a single finite capacity model, namespace colliding part numbers, and avoid double-counting the same demand.
Setting Up a Training Copy of EDGEBIC
How to run a training or test copy of EDGEBIC beside production: a second database name on the DataSource tab, what a fresh database starts with, and how to reset it between classes.
Several Anomaly Checks Fired on One Job: Which One to Fix First
When one job trips four anomaly checks at once, most of them are symptoms. The documented pairings that share a root cause and the order to work them in.
The Anomaly Report Still Lists a Problem I Fixed: Causes and Fixes
An anomaly row that survives a fix usually means the schedule was never regenerated. Why the report reads stored state and how to clear a finding for real.
The Four EDGEBIC Roles Most Plants Need
Planner, shop supervisor, read-only, and data entry: the four EDGEBIC roles that cover almost every plant, what each one grants, and what each deliberately leaves out.
The Quarterly EDGEBIC Admin Health Check
A quarterly admin health check for EDGEBIC: review accounts and roles, prove a backup restores, confirm import masks still match their files, and re-read scheduling policy.
What Are Lost Hours in a Production Schedule?
Lost hours are hours a routing demands that the schedule never actually booked. Definition, the half-hour threshold, why completed steps are excluded, and how EDGEBIC reports them.
What Changes in EDGEBIC When You Replace Your ERP
Swapping ERPs while keeping your scheduler: what survives untouched, which masks get rebuilt, why identifier continuity is the whole risk, and how to keep scheduling through cutover.
What Happens When Two Admins Save the Same Record in EDGEBIC
EDGEBIC uses last-write-wins: two people saving the same work center means the second save overwrites the first silently. Here is why, and the working rules that prevent it.