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How the Optimizer Preserves Completed and Started Work
The optimizer never moves work that is already done. Completed rows pass through optimize and Accept byte-identical, using the same actuals-preservation machinery as any reschedule.
How the Optimizer Scores a Schedule
One calculator produces every optimizer number: weighted tardiness, late jobs, makespan, setup, and instability. Here is how EDGEBIC scores a plan so the comparison you read is the math it chose by.
How the Shift Operator Roster Works in EDGEBIC
The roster is a weekly shift-by-weekday pattern that says who works which shift. Learn how it keys to global shifts and why parentless custom shifts can never be staffed.
Keeping the EDGEBIC Database Healthy Over Time
Keeping the EDGEBIC database healthy over time: the backup habit, safe data clearing, log hygiene, and the recovery path so a scheduling database stays dependable for years.
Load Leveling Across a Planning Week
Load leveling smooths the peaks and valleys of work across a week so no single day is overloaded. See how a finite scheduler spreads load forward, with worked numbers.
Made2Manage to EDGEBIC: The Data Mapping Reference
Made2Manage data export scheduling field by field: map items, work centers, routings, jobs and labor into EDGEBIC masks, with load order and upsert rules.
Marking a Job Complete From the Floor in EDGEBIC
Tapping Complete Operation closes the punch, rolls up the day's hours, and stamps the actual end. See the end-of-day snap that keeps same-day completions valid.
MIE Trak Pro to EDGEBIC: The Data Mapping Reference
MIE Trak Pro data export scheduling field by field: map parts, work centers, routers, work orders and labor into EDGEBIC masks with load order and upsert rules.
Min-Max vs Reorder-Point Replenishment
Min-max vs reorder-point replenishment compared: how each method decides when to reorder and how much, when to use one over the other, and how a projection reads either.
Minimizing Weighted Tardiness With the Optimizer
Weighted tardiness is the optimizer's core delivery measure: total lateness scaled by job priority. Here is how it is computed, why it leads most goals, and how to read it.
Running a Month-End Capacity Review in EDGEBIC
A capacity review walkthrough: read the Work Center Utilization report end to end, find the overloaded and idle machines, and turn the numbers into a plan.
My Forecast and a Firm Order Were Both Counted
When a forecast quantity and a firm order for the same period both show up as demand, the forecast consumption rule is what nets them together. Here is how consumption works and how to configure it.