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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.
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.
Scheduling Conveyor and Material Handling Equipment by Ship Set
Conveyor manufacturing scheduling that holds a ship set together, overlaps fabrication with transfer batches, and works backward from each installation start date.
Scheduling Dental Labs by Case Due Date
Dental lab scheduling that works backward from each case ship date, routes work to certified technicians, and holds thousands of one-off cases to promised days.
Scheduling Electrical Enclosure Fabrication From Punch to Wire-Out
Electrical enclosure scheduling that overlaps punch and brake with weld, batches powder coat by color, and times wire-out sub-assemblies to the final build date.