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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.
Planning a Month of Preventive Maintenance and Scheduling Around It
A preventive maintenance walkthrough in EDGEBIC: list what is due, pick the cheapest days from the utilization heatmap, block the hours, and reschedule.
Reading Parallel and Alternate Branches on the EDGEBIC Canvas
Three connector types, three very different meanings. How the EDGEBIC routing designer draws a sequential step, a parallel machine, and a true alternative.
Rescheduling Around a Late Material Delivery, Start to Finish
A late material delivery walkthrough in EDGEBIC: move the material's ready date, reschedule one job, read the new promise, and reclaim the freed capacity.
Sharing a Gantt Configuration Across Planners in EDGEBIC
Tune the schedule display once, then export it and import it everywhere. How EDGEBIC separates per-machine display settings from site-wide scheduling policy.
Shipping a Step Out to a Plating Vendor and Back: A Transit Days Walkthrough
An outside operation scheduling walkthrough in EDGEBIC: model a plating vendor's turnaround with transit days, pick calendar or working days, and watch the job's finish date move.
Showing Live Progress on Routing Diagram Nodes in EDGEBIC
Turn a routing diagram into a status board: how Node Display Fields put planned hours, actual hours, and dates under each node of a scheduled job.
The Status Strip and the Legend on the EDGEBIC Gantt
Two small parts of a production Gantt do the heaviest reading work: the per-bar status strip and the legend generated from your own state configuration.
Two Jobs Landed on the Same One-Per-Day Machine: Causes and Fixes
When a one-job-per-day machine unit shows two jobs on the same date, the cause is a stale allocation, a synchronized mirror, or too few units. How to tell which and fix it.
What Decides Which Operations Appear on the EDGEBIC Gantt
The schedule board is a filtered picture, not the whole database. The five gates that decide whether an operation draws a bar, in the order worth checking them.
What Each Segment of a Gantt Bar Means in EDGEBIC
Read a Gantt bar segment by segment: setup, run, queue, teardown, and move time, plus the display toggles that decide which parts of an operation you see.
What Happens When You Resize a Gantt Bar in EDGEBIC
Stretching a schedule bar records dates, not hours. What a resize actually writes in EDGEBIC, what it leaves alone, and when to change the routing step instead.
What Is a BOR Chain Issue in a Routing?
A BOR chain issue is a broken link between routing steps: a dangling reference, a cycle, or a missing successor. Learn the three kinds and how each one breaks a schedule.