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EDGEBIC Status Lifecycles Explained: What a Quote, an Order, and a Job Each Mean
How status works in EDGEBIC across quotes, sales orders, and manufacturing jobs: the values, what each one changes about system behavior, and where the handoffs happen.
EDGEBIC Localization Explained: Renaming the Software to Your Plant's Words
How the EDGEBIC Localization tab lets an administrator rename on-screen labels to plant vocabulary, how the alternate-strings toggle works, and when to use it.
EDGEBIC Material Steps Explained: The Routing Row That Books No Capacity
How material steps work in EDGEBIC: a routing row for a consumed component, scheduled as an instant gate with no capacity booked, and how it differs from a sub-assembly.
EDGEBIC Monthly Capacity Overrides Explained: Budgeting a Whole Season
How EDGEBIC monthly capacity overrides set a total-hours budget for a work center across a date range, spread it over available days, and rank against daily overrides.
Preventive Maintenance and EDGEBIC: Where the Service Window Meets the Plan
EDGEBIC does not track service intervals or warn operators. See where preventive maintenance genuinely meets the schedule, and how to protect the hours a service will take.
How Several Planners Share One EDGEBIC Database
How multi-user scheduling works in EDGEBIC: one shared database, per-user screen layouts, sign-in identity, refresh behavior, and what happens when two people save the same row.
EDGEBIC Sub-Assembly Scheduling Explained: One Job, Several Levels
How EDGEBIC schedules multi-level products: a component with its own routing is exploded into the parent job, timed to feed it, with hours and cost rolled up recursively.
EDGEBIC Units of Measure Explained: The Unit That Also Tells the Scheduler How to Count
How EDGEBIC units of measure work as master data: name, symbol, category, the default unit, and the scheduling behavior flag that ties a unit to hours or pieces.
The Utilization Report Says CRITICAL: Finding and Fixing the Overload
An overloaded work center walkthrough in EDGEBIC: read a CRITICAL rating, drill into the backlog, find the real cause, and fix it with the cheapest lever that works.
Following a Job From the Gantt to Its Routing in EDGEBIC
A bar on the schedule board is a doorway. The drill-down path from one Gantt bar to the job's hours, its change history, and the routing it is actually running.
A Customer Asks to Pull In a Delivery: Answering It in 20 Minutes
A customer pull-in request walkthrough in EDGEBIC: change the due date, re-plan, read Days Late, and work three honest levers until the earlier date holds or you say no.
Hours Landed on a Date Outside the Operation Window: Causes and Fixes
When an operation's day-by-day hour split shows a date its own bar does not cover, the cause is almost always rows left behind when a reschedule moved the window.