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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.
How a Schedule Accounts for Scrap and Yield Loss
If a routing loses parts to scrap, you must start more than you ship. Here is where EDGEBIC inflates the quantity for you, where you size it yourself, and how to get the number right.
How a Scheduler Absorbs a Rush Order Without Wrecking the Plan
A finite capacity scheduler slots a rush order in by priority, preserves started and completed work, and reflows only the unstarted future, so you see exactly which jobs slip.
How a Scheduler Decides When to Start a Job
How a finite capacity scheduler sets each operation's start time: the later of release and prerequisite end, then a forward search for real capacity, with numbers.
How a Scheduler Handles a Shared Tool or Fixture
How to schedule a shared fixture, die, or mold in a finite capacity plan: give the tool a quantity, require it on the routing step, and let contention across every machine become real.
How a Scheduler Thinks About a Week vs a Day
A finite capacity scheduler treats the near term as executable and the far term as directional. Here is how horizon and granularity change what a plan is really for.
How a Stockout Shows Up Before It Happens in EDGEBIC
A stockout is visible weeks out, not on the day the shelf empties. Here is how projected balance, the safety flag, and days of cover surface it early enough to act.
How Available-to-Promise Answers a Sales Question in EDGEBIC
When sales asks can we ship 150 by week 3, available-to-promise gives a safe answer. Here is how EDGEBIC reads the cumulative ATP column to say yes or no.
How Build-to-Stock and Consume-from-Stock Work Together in EDGEBIC
Build-to-stock posts a receipt when an order completes; consume-from-stock posts an issue when demand is met from stock. Here is how the two halves close one loop.
How EDGEBIC Is Tested: The Quality Story for Buyers
How EDGEBIC is tested: the three-layer test suite, regression gates, and dual-database checks that keep your production schedule correct as the software evolves.
How EDGEBIC Records Every Schedule Change
How EDGEBIC's schedule change history records every reschedule, work center swap, date override, and completion with who did it and why, for a full audit trail.
How Forward Netting Connects a Producer to a Consumer in EDGEBIC
When one order builds a part and another consumes it in the same run, forward netting lets the consumer see the incoming supply. Here is how it prevents a double-build.
How Lot Sizing and Yield Inflation Shape Order Quantities in EDGEBIC
EDGEBIC rounds a raw shortfall into a buildable quantity with lot-size rules and yield inflation. Here is how lot-for-lot, fixed-order-qty, and scrap allowance each work.