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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.
EDGEBIC Manufacturing Orders Explained: The Job the Scheduler Plans
What a manufacturing order is in EDGEBIC, the fields that drive its scheduling, and how a job moves from created to scheduled to in progress to complete without losing its history.
EDGEBIC + Prodsmart: The Complete Scheduling Integration Guide
Prodsmart production scheduling integration with EDGEBIC: export items, work centers, operations and orders to CSV, map columns once, and schedule at finite capacity.
EDGEBIC + Realtrac: The Complete Scheduling Integration Guide
Realtrac production scheduling integration with EDGEBIC: export parts, work centers, routings and jobs to CSV, map columns once, and schedule at finite capacity.
The EDGEBIC Resource Calendar Explained: Pool Capacity at a Glance
How the EDGEBIC resource calendar sums the live capacity of a machine pool from its member work centers, so you see a group's true available hours without inventing any.
The EDGEBIC Resource Load View Explained: Seeing Load Against Capacity
How the EDGEBIC resource load view lays each work center's booked hours next to its real available hours, so overload and idle time are a picture you can act on, not a number you have to hunt for.
EDGEBIC Scheduled Integration Runs Explained: Import Masks on a Timer
How EDGEBIC automates its import masks on a schedule or a watched file, with end-to-end run history and a built-in simulator, so ERP data flows in without a native connector and without manual re-imports.
The EDGEBIC Shop Floor Kiosk Explained: Where Actuals Come From
How the EDGEBIC shop floor kiosk lets operators start and finish operations and log hours and pieces on the same database the planner uses, so the schedule learns what really happened.
EDGEBIC + Statii: The Complete Scheduling Integration Guide
Statii production scheduling integration with EDGEBIC: export parts, work centers, operations and jobs to CSV, map columns once, and schedule at finite capacity.
The EDGEBIC Timeline Board Explained: A Resource View of the Schedule
How the EDGEBIC timeline board turns the schedule around to put work centers on the rows, so you read a plant by machine instead of by job and see contention before it bites.
The EDGEBIC Visual Routing Editor Explained: Draw the Process
How the EDGEBIC visual routing editor lets you build a product's routing as a diagram of connected steps, so branches, alternates, and parallel work read as a picture rather than rows in a grid.
The EDGEBIC Work Center Schedule View Explained: One Station, One Screen
How the EDGEBIC work center schedule view zooms the plan down to a single station, so a supervisor sees exactly what one machine runs and in what order without the noise of the whole plant.
Exporting a Committed Schedule for the Shop Floor in EDGEBIC
Commit a schedule, then hand it to the floor: export the Job View and per-work-center grids to Excel snapshots and read the dispatch list, with an honest note on what exports and what does not.