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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.
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.
The Smallest Slice of Capacity a Scheduler Will Use
Why a finite capacity engine refuses to book six-minute fragments of a shift, how the minimum allocation unit prevents rounding drift, and what it means for short operations.
The Ten-Second Piece Undo at the EDGEBIC Kiosk
A mis-tapped piece count is fixable on the spot, but never invisibly. See how the ten-second undo works at the kiosk and why every undo leaves an audit row behind.
What Is a BOR Item Type in a Routing? EDGEBIC Definition
A BOR item type says what kind of thing a routing position refers to: a product, a work center step, a raw material, or a sub-assembly component. See how EDGEBIC uses the four values.