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What Is the Capacity Override Resolution Chain?
The capacity override resolution chain is the fixed priority order that decides a work center cell's capacity: daily override, then monthly override, then the shift formula.
What Is the Capacity Search Window in Scheduling?
The capacity search window is how many days forward the engine may walk looking for free capacity before it gives up on placing an operation. Learn what it protects against.
Why a Gantt Bar Will Not Move in EDGEBIC
A Gantt bar that refuses to drag is telling you something. The five reasons a bar is locked in EDGEBIC, what each one protects, and how to release it safely.
A Go-Live Cutover Plan for Your ERP and EDGEBIC
A staged cutover plan for running EDGEBIC alongside your ERP: parallel run, the trust checks that end it, who owns which data, and the first week the schedule is official.
An ERP Import Reconciliation Checklist for EDGEBIC
The checks to run after every ERP import into EDGEBIC: row counts, Created versus Reused, orphan work centers, routing chain gaps, and hours that do not reconcile.
Building a Reason Code Catalog for Your Work Centers in EDGEBIC
EDGEBIC ships 16 default reason codes across four categories and lets you add work center specific ones. Here is how to build a catalog operators will actually use.
Building a Work Center List When Your ERP Has None
How to create a scheduling-grade work center list when your ERP has no resource master: what to include, how many instances to declare, and how to import it into EDGEBIC.
Comparing Two Optimizer Runs Before You Commit
Running the optimizer twice with different goals costs a minute and shows you the trade space. Here is how to compare two proposals and pick the one to accept.
Does Running the Optimizer Disturb Your Plant?
A run holds everything in memory, locks nothing, and is invisible to other users until you accept. Here is exactly what a run touches and what it leaves alone.
EDGEBIC + Cetec ERP: The Scheduling Integration Guide
Cetec ERP production scheduling integration with EDGEBIC: export parts, work centers, routings and open work orders, map columns once, then schedule at finite capacity.
Scheduling Agricultural Equipment Builds Around In-Season Parts Rushes
Agricultural equipment scheduling that protects the whole-goods build line while absorbing in-season service parts rushes, using alternates and honest what-if reschedules.
Scheduling Boat Building Around Molds, Cure Time, and Launch Dates
Boat building scheduling that counts hulls molds as finite units, carries lamination cure as real elapsed time, and works backward from each customer launch date.