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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.
Rough-Cut vs Detailed Capacity Planning
Rough-cut capacity planning checks a few key resources against aggregate demand; detailed capacity planning schedules every operation finitely. Compare the two with worked numbers.
Routing a Job to a Backup Machine When the Primary Is Full in EDGEBIC
A true-alternative walkthrough: set a fallback work center, watch the engine route overflow to it automatically, and keep a started job on its original machine.
Running a Dedicated Oven Day: One Job Per Chamber in EDGEBIC
A OnePerDay walkthrough: schedule a batch furnace so each chamber runs a single job per day, three chambers hold three jobs, and a fourth waits.
Sales, Production, and Consumption: The Three Forecast Types in EDGEBIC
How the Sales, Production, and Consumption forecast types add together in EDGEBIC, why the type is part of the identity key, and how each feeds gross requirements.
Scheduling a Five-Job Week With Mixed Priorities in EDGEBIC
A production scheduling walkthrough: load five jobs with different priorities and due dates, run the scheduler, and read how the engine sequences competing work.
Setting the Optimizer Time Budget
The optimizer runs on a time budget of 10, 30, or 60 seconds. Here is how the budget shapes the search, what an interrupt returns, and how to pick the right one for the run.
Setting Up the EDGEBIC Kiosk for Your First Shift
Bind a kiosk terminal to a work center and machine, remember the selection, and start punching. A step-by-step guide to standing up the shop-floor kiosk.
Slack-Based Job Sequencing
Slack-based job sequencing runs the job with the least slack first, where slack is time until due date minus work remaining. See the minimum-slack rule with worked numbers.
Splitting a Large Order Across Parallel Work Centers in EDGEBIC
A parallel scheduling walkthrough: run one big job on two machines at once, split the hours with load balancing, and finish in roughly half the time.
Staleness Protection in the Optimizer
If the schedule changes while an optimizer proposal is open, Accept refuses to overwrite it. Here is how the snapshot stamp catches drift and protects your data from a stale apply.
Standing Up the Kiosk and Logging a First Shift in EDGEBIC
A shop-floor kiosk walkthrough: bring a terminal online, run one operation from setup to complete, count pieces, and hand off the shift with real actuals.
SYSPRO to EDGEBIC: The Data Mapping Reference
SYSPRO data export scheduling field by field: map stock codes, work centers, BOM operations, WIP jobs and labor into EDGEBIC masks with load order and upsert rules.