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Importing Sub-Assembly Routings From Your ERP
How to bring multi-level BOM and sub-assembly routings out of your ERP into EDGEBIC: one routing per level, how a child feeds its parent, and the import order that wires them.
Job Priorities Versus the Schedule Optimizer
Good priorities set the queue, but no fixed priority order fixes every interleaving problem. Here is what each tool does and why you still need both.
Keeping Job Numbers Aligned Between Your ERP and EDGEBIC
How to keep work order and job identifiers consistent across your ERP and EDGEBIC: natural keys, order references, multi-line auto-numbering, and what breaks when they drift.
Mapping Alternate Work Centers From Your ERP
How to carry an ERP's alternate machine data into EDGEBIC: what a true alternate means, speed factors, priority, machine pools, and what to do when the ERP holds nothing at all.
Mapping Your ERP's Units of Measure for Scheduling
How to reconcile ERP units of measure with EDGEBIC when you import: quantity units, time units, per-hundred standards, and the conversion factors that keep dates honest.
Optimizer Messages and What They Mean
Every message the optimizer shows has a specific cause and a specific fix. Here is the full list, from no open orders to a missing goal to a stale proposal banner.
Planned Crew Versus Who Actually Worked in EDGEBIC
The schedule books operator hours in advance and the kiosk records who really ran the job. Learn why EDGEBIC keeps those two records apart and which one to report on.
Rolling a Job's Actuals Up to the End Product in EDGEBIC
Actuals are captured per operation, but planners ask about the job. See how EDGEBIC rolls operation actuals into one end-product view and when a job counts as complete.
Splitting One ERP Operation Into Multiple EDGEBIC Steps
How to break a single coarse ERP operation into separate EDGEBIC routing steps when work runs across different machines, so finite capacity scheduling sees the real flow.
The Auto-Filled Actuals Badge Explained in EDGEBIC
Some actuals are typed by a person and some are filled in by the system. See how the auto-filled badge tells them apart and why that provenance protects your numbers.
The Makespan Metric in Schedule Optimization
Makespan measures the span from the first start to the last end of your whole plan. Here is how the optimizer calculates it, when to chase it, and when to ignore it.
Preventive Maintenance and the EDGEBIC Kiosk: What Operators Actually See
The EDGEBIC kiosk shows one banner, and it is not a maintenance banner. See what the kiosk really warns about and how to protect service hours with a per-day capacity override.