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What a Quote's Estimated Cost Does Not Include in EDGEBIC
A quoted cost in EDGEBIC is labor plus material, and nothing else. See what the model deliberately leaves out, and where those real costs belong instead.
What a Rising Backlog Tells You Weeks Before a Job Is Late
Backlog is the queue length in front of a station, and its slope is a leading indicator. Here is the causal chain from a rising number to a late job, and how to measure your own warning lead time.
What an Over-Estimate Warning on a Step Actually Means
A finished step that used more hours than planned raises a warning on its Actual Live card. Learn the three causes behind it and how to tell which one you are looking at.
What Are Estimated Work Hours on a Quote?
Estimated work hours are the real work a routing consumes, not the elapsed span between quoted start and end dates. Learn why the two differ and which one prices a job.
What Are Job Status Buckets on a Dashboard?
Late, Overdue, On time, and Early are the four exclusive slices every job falls into. Learn what separates late from overdue and why the fix differs.
What Are Production Hours in Shop-Floor Tracking?
Production hours are the run and rework time credited to a job, with setup, pause and downtime kept separately. Learn why the split protects operators and reports.
What Happens When the CP-SAT Solver Is Not Installed
You selected the mathematical solver in Options but the badge still says best of N tried. That is a deliberate fallback, not a fault, and here is how to confirm it and what you keep.
What Is a Blocker Hint on a Late Job?
A blocker hint is a one-line diagnosis on the Late Jobs report telling you where to dig first. Learn the three hints, what triggers each, and how to act.
What Is a Bootstrap Administrator Account?
The bootstrap administrator is the first account, created before anything else on a new database. Learn why it cannot be deleted and how to hand it over safely.
What Is a BOR Split Around an Anchor Step?
A BOR split divides a routing into the steps feeding a pinned constraint and the steps after it, so one half schedules backward and the other forward from the same point.
What Is a Common Shift Requirement in Parallel Scheduling?
Machines that must run one operation together need a shared shift record, not just matching hours. Learn why identical shift times on separate records never intersect.
What Is a Credit Limit in Manufacturing Software?
A credit limit is the ceiling on what a customer may owe. In EDGEBIC it warns but never blocks an order. Learn what that means and how to use it well.