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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.
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.
My On-Hand Quantity Does Not Match the Inventory Ledger
When a part's on-hand number disagrees with the sum of its ledger entries, the ledger is authoritative and the on-hand is a cache. Here is how to confirm the drift and reconcile it.
Odoo to EDGEBIC: The Data Mapping Reference
Odoo data export scheduling field by field: map products, work centers, operations and manufacturing orders into EDGEBIC masks, with conversions and upsert rules.
Onboarding a New Work Center and Rebalancing the Plant in EDGEBIC
A capacity expansion walkthrough: add a second mill, assign its shift, route jobs to it, reschedule, and watch the overloaded machine's load drop by half.