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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.
How a Job's Hours Roll Up From the Schedule Graph
How EDGEBIC totals a job's planned, actual, and remaining hours from the placed schedule rows, why it excludes sub-assembly and parallel duplicates, and why the order estimate is the wrong source.
How a Multi-Day Operation Spreads Hours Across Days
How EDGEBIC attributes the hours of an operation that spans several shifts to each calendar day, and why that daily breakdown drives load reports, capacity checks, and actuals comparison.
How a Shared Schedule Reduces Key-Person Risk
When the schedule lives in one veteran planner's spreadsheet, the whole plant depends on that person. A shared scheduling model turns tribal knowledge into a system.
How a Sub-Assembly Feeds Its Parent Job
How EDGEBIC schedules a multi-level routing where a sub-assembly must finish before its parent operation can start, and how the sub-assembly's hours roll up into the job total.
How a Supervisor Corrects a Kiosk Punch in EDGEBIC
A bad punch is never edited in place. See how a supervisor corrects kiosk hours, pieces, or a reason code with an append-only adjustment that keeps the original record intact.
How a Work Center Inherits or Overrides Its Calendar
How EDGEBIC lets a work center use the plant's global shifts and holidays or define its own, and why that inherit-or-override choice decides when the capacity search finds open time.
How an Operator's Hours Are Attributed to a Job in EDGEBIC
Every kiosk punch carries the operator's name. See how one person's productive hours are attributed to a job and summed across a shift, and why setup and downtime stay out of it.
How Backward Scheduling Trims Finished-Goods Inventory
Finish jobs too early and you pay to store them. Backward scheduling times each job to its due date, cutting the days finished goods sit waiting to ship.
How Fast You Answer a Customer Date Change
When a customer moves a due date, the shop that answers in minutes keeps the order. A live scheduling model turns a date-change request into a same-call answer.
How Import and Export Masks Cut Double Entry Between ERP and the Floor
Re-keying orders from your ERP into a scheduling tool wastes hours and breeds errors. Reusable import and export masks move the data both ways without retyping it.
How Shop Floor Actuals Close the Plan-vs-Actual Loop
Shop floor actuals feedback loop: how kiosk punches keep the next schedule accurate, resume jobs from where they really are, and stop the plan drifting into a wish list.
How Operator Time-Off Reshapes the Schedule in EDGEBIC
Record a PTO or leave range for an operator and the next reschedule routes work around it. See how operator time-off works and why a named person's absence surfaces as a visible slip.