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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.
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.
What Is Capacity Level in Work Center Scheduling?
Capacity level bands a work center's load into low, medium, and high so overloads stand out at a glance. Learn how the utilization bands map to color and what each one means.
What Is Capacity Type in a Work Center?
Capacity type sets whether a work center is measured in hours, pieces, or both. Learn how the hours, pieces, and both settings change how a schedule loads a machine.
What Is Transfer Delay in Lot Streaming?
Transfer delay is the flat material-handling lag after a transfer batch is ready before the next step can start. Learn how it differs from transfer batch size and queue time.