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How the platform actually works: scheduling, optimization, the shop floor and ERP data.
Filtering the EDGEBIC Gantt to the Jobs That Matter
Filter a production Gantt chart in EDGEBIC with the job checkboxes, search box, and date window, so a crowded plant schedule narrows to the one job or handful of jobs you care about.
How a Daily Capacity Override Replaces the Formula
Sometimes a shift's real capacity for one date is not what the standing formula computes. Here is how EDGEBIC lets a per-date override replace the calculation outright, and why the same number drives both the schedule and the dashboard.
How a Job Sticks to the Same Machine Instance
When a work center has several identical machines, EDGEBIC prefers to keep one job on the same instance across shifts and days. Here is why that continuity matters and when the engine relaxes it.
How a Material Step Schedules as an Instant Gate
Material lines in a routing consume no machine capacity, yet they still control when the next operation can start. Here is how EDGEBIC treats a material step as an instant gate on the timeline.
How a Reschedule Protects Completed Work in EDGEBIC
Completed operations are never moved by a reschedule in EDGEBIC: the completed shade marks finished work, actuals stay put, and only unstarted steps are re-planned around history.
How a Schedule Handles a Shift That Crosses Midnight
A night shift that starts in the evening and ends after midnight spans two calendar dates. Here is how EDGEBIC computes the shift's true end, places work across the day boundary, and attributes the hours correctly.
How a Work Center Group Re-Shops Machines on a Reschedule
A group step keeps its pool binding after the first schedule, so a reschedule can re-shop the machines. Started operations keep the machine they ran on, and only not-started ones re-resolve. Here is how EDGEBIC does it.
How Capacity Is Computed for a Work Center, Shift, and Day
The exact formula EDGEBIC uses to turn a shift into available hours: base shift time minus downtime and holidays, scaled by utilization and instances, minus what is already booked and any late-start penalty.
How Efficiency Scales Run Time but Not Setup
A faster or slower machine changes how long the parts take to make, but not how long the changeover takes. Here is why EDGEBIC applies a factor to run hours only, and why a true alternative works differently again.
How Move and Teardown Time Fit Into a Schedule
Beyond setup and run, a routing step can carry move hours and teardown hours. Here is what each represents, how they extend an operation's footprint, and when to bother modeling them.
How Queue, Flow, and Transit Stack After an Operation
Between one operation ending and the next beginning, EDGEBIC layers three different delays in a fixed order: queue time, lot-streaming flow, and transit days. Here is how they compose and where they interact.
How Setup Time Composes Into a Step's Duration
How EDGEBIC folds a fixed setup and a per-piece run rate into one operation's total hours, why setup is charged once while run scales with quantity, and what that means for batch sizing.