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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 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.
MRPeasy to EDGEBIC: The Data Mapping Reference
MRPeasy data export scheduling field by field: map items, workstations, routings, manufacturing orders and labor into EDGEBIC masks, with CSV and upsert rules.
Planned Start Pins: Parking a Future Operation Without Faking an Actual
A planned start pin in EDGEBIC holds a future operation on a chosen date and machine without recording an actual, so the next reschedule honors your intent and the pin dissolves once real work begins.
Preparing Your EDGEBIC Install Before Migrating
Before migrating, prepare your EDGEBIC install: choose SQLite for a single planner or SQL Server for a team, let the setup wizard handle the connection, and confirm the data source before you import.