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How to Check a Routing's Hours and Cost Totals in EDGEBIC
Read and reconcile the three live header totals above the EDGEBIC routing grid: Estimated Hour per unit, Setup Time, and Total Cost, and know what each one leaves out.
How to Clear a Job's Actuals From One Operation Forward in EDGEBIC
Clear actual start and end dates from a chosen operation forward within one job, choose between including or keeping that operation, then reschedule the freed steps.
How to Delete a Product in EDGEBIC (and What the Cascade Takes With It)
Delete a product in EDGEBIC from the Product tab, read the cascade warning that names its routing and schedule rows, and know when leaving the record in place is the better call.
How to Edit or Delete a Saved Import Mask in EDGEBIC
Edit a saved import mask in EDGEBIC: select its entity type, click Edit, re-point the file and remap columns, then save. Or select it and click Delete Mask to retire it.
How to Import a File with No Header Row in EDGEBIC
Map a headerless extract in EDGEBIC: untick Header Present, set the delimiter, and type each field's column number into Col # instead of dragging a heading.
How to Isolate One Job on the EDGEBIC Gantt
Make one job stand out on the EDGEBIC Gantt: shade every other job from the right-click menu, or untick the rest in the job tree, and know when each is right.
How to Lock an Operation in Place on the EDGEBIC Gantt
Protect one operation from being moved on the EDGEBIC Gantt with Lock Single Operation Segment, and see how a lock differs from a planned-start pin or actuals.
How to Move an Operation to an Exact Time in EDGEBIC
Move a Gantt operation to a precise timestamp in EDGEBIC with the Move Operation to Date/Time dialog instead of dragging by eye, then stage and save the change.
Your Changeover Saving Is a Claim Until You Can Point at the Column
A setup matrix can be fully configured and quietly not firing. The Setup Reason column on every scheduled row turns an improvement estimate into something you can audit.
How to Tell Which Order Edits Need a Reschedule in EDGEBIC
Know which manufacturing order edits move the plan and which do not: the field-by-field rule, why saving never reschedules, and how to batch edits into one run.
Late vs. Overdue: Two Different Problems, Two Different Fixes
A job whose plan misses the due date and a job whose plan was fine but was not executed look identical on a late list. They need opposite fixes, and EDGEBIC separates them.
Quoting a Multi-Item Order in EDGEBIC: One Quote per Line, Held Together by the Sales Order
A quote holds one product. See how to quote a customer's multi-line enquiry as a set, read the package date and margin correctly, and where the sum of the lines misleads.