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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.
Handling Multi-Plant ERP Exports in EDGEBIC
How to import ERP data for several plants into EDGEBIC: naming work centers per site, filtering exports, modeling transit between plants, and deciding one model or several.
How a Constraint Schedule Subordinates Every Other Step
When a job is anchored to a constraint, the engine ranks every other step below it on a descending priority ladder. How the ladder works and why upstream steps drop fastest.
How to Keep a Slow Machine Out of a Machine Pool
There is no automatic efficiency screen on a pool. Four real controls decide which machines a step can use: the member list, the Active flag, the per-member factor, and the selection strategy.
How a Step-Level One-Per-Day Rule Overrides the Machine
One job per day can be set on the machine or on the individual routing step. How the step-level rule wins, when to use it, and what it does to capacity on a shared machine.
How a Synchronized Group Buffer Differs From Queue Time
A parallel group can carry its own buffer after the machines finish together. How that padding differs from queue time and transfer delay, and which one to use when.
How Kiosk Punches Roll Up Into Daily Actual Hours in EDGEBIC
Punches are the source, daily actual hours are the rollup. See how EDGEBIC groups closed run and rework punches by date and rebuilds the numbers the plan reads.
How Sub-Assembly Actuals Are Logged Separately in EDGEBIC
A step that builds several components keeps its actuals split per component. See how EDGEBIC separates those rows, who maintains them, and why totals never double count.
How the Optimizer Is Verified Against Public Benchmarks
The solver is checked nightly against a public job shop benchmark with a known optimal answer, plus parity, determinism, and never-worse tests. Here is what each proves.
How to Create a Setup Family in EDGEBIC
Setup families group interchangeable products so changeover times are configured once instead of per pair. How to create a family in EDGEBIC and assign products to it.
How to Export a Report to PDF in EDGEBIC
Produce a PDF of any EDGEBIC report for archiving, customer delivery, or a management pack, and set up the grid correctly before you export so the file reads well.
How to Export the Gantt Chart as an Image in EDGEBIC
Capture the EDGEBIC Gantt as a PNG for a meeting, a shop floor print, or a customer update, and set the visible date range correctly before you export.
How to Export the Setup Matrix to CSV in EDGEBIC
Export a work center's full changeover matrix from EDGEBIC to CSV for review, sign-off, or archiving, including both family-level rows and product-level overrides.