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What a Pause-with-Reason Record Is Worth in EDGEBIC
Every kiosk pause carries a reason from four categories. Learn why that one tap turns lost time into a Pareto chart, a maintenance ticket, and a fairer efficiency number.
What a Visual Schedule Tells a Shop That a List Cannot
A dispatch list says what runs next. A visual schedule shows collisions, ripples, bottlenecks, and plan vs reality at once. See what a shop gains from the picture.
What Carries Forward From RMDB to EDGEBIC, and What Is New
Upgrading from RMDB? Your data, scheduling concepts, ERP data flows, and support all carry forward to EDGEBIC. Here is exactly what moves with you and what is genuinely new.
What EDGEBI Users Gain in EDGEBIC
EDGEBI gave you interactive visual scheduling. EDGEBIC keeps that experience and adds a drag-and-drop routing designer, one unified app, an optimizer, and live actuals.
What Happens When You Accept an Optimized Schedule
Accept is the only action that writes an EDGEBIC optimization to the database. Here is exactly what it changes, what it protects, the audit it records, and the staleness check.
What Is a Continuous-Process Work Center?
A continuous-process work center runs flowing product you cannot count in transfer batches. Learn how the flag changes which lot-streaming model a schedule applies.
What Is a Downtime Event in Production Scheduling?
A downtime event is a period when one work center is unavailable, planned or unplanned. How downtime removes capacity, reroutes jobs, and how you enter it in the current release.
What Is a Plant Holiday in Production Scheduling?
A plant holiday is a non-working day that removes capacity from every work center at once. Learn how plant, shift, and machine holidays differ and how they shape a schedule.
What Is a Sequence Number in a Routing?
A sequence number sets the order of steps in a routing, usually numbered 10, 20, 30 with gaps. Learn how sequence numbers order operations and why you leave room between them.
What Is a Setup Source in Scheduling?
A setup source is the short code showing which tier of the setup chain produced a step's setup time. Learn how cold start, matrix, and default sources explain a schedule.
What Is a Timeline View Mode in the Gantt?
Timeline view mode sets the Gantt's zoom to week, month, or quarter. Learn how each mode changes the horizon you see and who on the shop floor uses which one.
What Are Applicable Instances in a Routing Step?
Applicable instances set how many of a work center's machines a routing step may actually use, which can be fewer than the total. Learn how the count shapes a schedule.