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What Is an Off-Calendar Booking Check in Scheduling?
An off-calendar booking check flags work scheduled on a day the plant, the machine, or the shift was closed. Definition, the four calendar sources it tests, and how EDGEBIC reports it.
What Is the Finite Capacity Flag on a Routing Step?
The finite capacity flag decides whether a step's hours are checked against real machine capacity or booked regardless. On an alternate work center it also decides mirror versus independent booking. Definition and how EDGEBIC uses it.
When Your ERP Exports Setup as Its Own Operation Row
How to import an ERP routing that models setup as a separate operation line: merge it into the run step's setup field, or keep it as a real step when setup runs off the machine.
Who Owns What: Splitting EDGEBIC Admin Duties
Which EDGEBIC administration duties belong to IT and which belong to planning: the database and backups versus masks, roles, and scheduling policy, with a duty-by-duty split.
A Day in the Life of a Planner: Morning Review to End-of-Day Commit
A planner daily routine walkthrough in EDGEBIC: the 20 minute morning review, the midday interruptions, the afternoon capacity check, and the end-of-day commit that the shop runs on.
A Job Header Date Does Not Match Its Operations: Causes and Fixes
When a job's summary start or end date disagrees with its own earliest and latest operations, the cause is a partial replan that never recomputed the header. How to clear it.
A Kiosk Punch Did Not Appear in the Report: Causes and Fixes
When a shop floor punch is missing from a report, the cause is usually an open punch, a punch type that does not count as productive, or a date window that misses it.
A Monthly Capacity Override Was Ignored: Causes and Fixes
When a date-range capacity override does not change the plan, the cause is usually a daily override on the same date, a stale run, or a share split you did not expect.
A New Planner's First Week: From First Sign-In to a Schedule the Shop Trusts
A new planner onboarding walkthrough in EDGEBIC: five days from first sign-in to a committed schedule, with what to read, what to run, and what to leave alone.
A Permission Change Did Not Take Effect: Causes and Fixes
When a granted permission does not reach the user, the usual cause is that the session captured its permission set at sign-in. Why a re-login is required and what else to check.
A Quarter-End Push: Clearing 22 Late Jobs in Three Weeks
A quarter-end backlog push walkthrough in EDGEBIC: triage the late jobs report, resequence by priority, buy targeted capacity, and run the optimizer for the last mile.
A Quote Cost Came Back at Zero: Causes and Fixes
A quote that prices at zero usually has missing work center rates, a material fallback with no unit cost behind it, or a simulation that produced no scheduled hours.