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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.
How the Scheduler Sequences Orders Before Placement
Before EDGEBIC places a single operation, it decides the order in which whole jobs get first claim on capacity. Here is the global sort, why it is deterministic, and how it differs from dispatch rules at the machine.
How the Setup Time Resolver Picks a Changeover Time
A single operation can draw its setup from six different places. Here is the precedence ladder EDGEBIC walks to decide which one wins, from a sequence matrix down to the work center default.
Katana to EDGEBIC: The Data Mapping Reference
Katana data export scheduling field by field: map products, resources, operations, manufacturing orders and labor into EDGEBIC masks, with CSV and upsert rules.
Keeping Your ERP and EDGEBIC in Sync: The Weekly Import Routine
A weekly ERP scheduling import routine with EDGEBIC: the import order, what to refresh each cycle, why re-imports are safe, and the twenty-minute Monday rhythm.
Linking a Quote to a Customer and Sales Order in EDGEBIC
A quote in EDGEBIC ties to a customer and, optionally, a sales order, and both links carry to the manufacturing order at conversion. See how the relationships hold together.
Migrating Open Jobs and Their Actuals to EDGEBIC
The cleanest way to migrate open jobs to EDGEBIC is to let in-flight work finish on RMDB and start new jobs on EDGEBIC. When you must carry WIP across, actuals import and completed work is preserved.
Migrating Your Work Center and Shift Definitions to EDGEBIC
Migrate work centers, shifts, and plant holidays to EDGEBIC through import masks, attach per-work-center calendars, and verify capacity against RMDB before you trust a schedule.
Migrating Your Item and Customer Master to EDGEBIC
Migrate your item and customer master to EDGEBIC first, through saved import masks, because routings and orders link to them by name. Get the foundation right and the rest resolves cleanly.
Moving an Operation to Another Machine on the EDGEBIC Gantt
Reassign an operation to another work center in EDGEBIC by dragging its bar to a different lane: the move stages as pending, saves as Resource Replaced, and can survive the next reschedule.