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A Job Shows Fewer Hours Than Its Routing Requires
When a job's scheduled hours fall short of its routing math, the cause is usually partial-completion accounting or an alternate work center with a speed factor. How to read it.
A Job Was Booked During a Machine Downtime Window
When a job schedules inside a maintenance window, the closure was almost always entered after the last run. How to model machine downtime today, and how to clear the booking.
A Job's Schedule Bar Is Wider Than Its Hours Suggest
When a Gantt bar spans far more calendar time than the work hours, the cause is a low utilization cap on the order, high queue time, a large setup charge, or shifts spread thin.
A Schedule Points to a Deleted Work Center
When a schedule references a work center that was deleted, reports cannot resolve it. Restore the machine or reassign the routing step, then re-run scheduling.
A Work Center Shows More Hours Than It Has: The Causes
When a work center's daily booking exceeds its physical hours, it is one of three causes: synchronized machines, stale reschedule rows, or an understated instance count.
An Anchored Job Did Not Hit Its Target Date
When a bottleneck-anchored job fails to schedule to its target, the cause is bottleneck capacity, a past target date, or feeder steps that cannot finish in time.
Capacity vs Throughput in Manufacturing Scheduling
Capacity is the hours a shop could run; throughput is the good output it actually ships. Here is why the two diverge and why adding capacity off the bottleneck adds nothing.
Choosing a Planning Bucket: Day, Week, or Period in EDGEBIC
EDGEBIC plans demand and supply in buckets of a day, a week, or a 28-day period. Here is how each granularity behaves and how to pick the right one for a product.
Demand Fence vs Planning Fence in EDGEBIC
The two time fences in EDGEBIC's MPS suppress different things: the demand fence hides stale forecast, the planning fence protects committed builds. Here is how each works.
The EDGEBIC Control Tower: A Roadmap Vision, Not Yet Built
The EDGEBIC Control Tower is a documented roadmap vision, not a shipped feature. Here is what it would show, and the real capabilities that exist in EDGEBIC today.
The EDGEBIC Data Snapshot: A Faster Path to Support Answers
How the EDGEBIC data snapshot pulls your job records and runs integrity checks so support can answer why does my schedule look wrong in minutes, not days.
SQLite or SQL Server: EDGEBIC Database Options for IT Buyers
EDGEBIC database options for IT: when to run the local SQLite database versus shared SQL Server, how the two scale, and how to move between them without a rewrite.