Outgrow Excel Without Losing What You Love About It
Your Excel scheduling has served you well, but it cannot scale. RMDB keeps the Excel familiarity your team relies on while adding finite capacity scheduling, MRP, and automation that spreadsheets simply cannot provide.
Our scheduling is in spreadsheets and keeps breaking. How do we replace it?
Move the schedule into finite capacity scheduling software that imports the spreadsheets you already have. EDGEBIC (RMDB 2.0) by User Solutions maps your existing columns into Excel, CSV or database import masks, schedules every job against real machines, labor and shifts, and replaces fragile formulas and one-person workbooks with a single shared plan. Kyocera Industrial Ceramics replaced a complex employee-written Excel program this way, and Homestead Furniture shrank a 40-hour-a-week spreadsheet scheduling job to a few hours.
See EDGEBIC and its published one-time pricing, the honest spreadsheet vs scheduling software comparison and how to migrate a homegrown spreadsheet scheduler.
Excel Scheduling vs. RMDB
Excel scheduling limits
- No finite capacity scheduling, so real constraints are ignored
- 40+ hours/week maintaining complex custom formulas
- Single-person dependency: it breaks when that person leaves
- Cannot schedule machines, labor, and materials simultaneously
- No what-if analysis for new orders or capacity changes
- 10 separate master files with no integration (USS Nimitz)
EDGEBIC (RMDB 2.0) with Excel integration
- True finite capacity scheduling across all resource types
- Basic weekly schedule: a 2-hour clerk task (Homestead Furniture)
- System-driven scheduling, not dependent on one person
- Schedules machines, labor, materials, and tooling simultaneously
- What-if analysis secured largest order ever (Turner Bicycles)
- One unified system replacing fragmented spreadsheets
Your Path from Excel to Real Scheduling
User Solutions has moved manufacturers off spreadsheets since 1991, first with RMX (Resource Manager for Excel) and then RMDB (Resource Manager DB). Both remain supported. The path today is EDGEBIC (RMDB 2.0) by User Solutions: it reads the spreadsheets you already have through Excel, CSV and database import masks, so your data comes with you. Pick the edition that fits.
EDGEBIC APS
$25,000 one-time. The RMDB scheduling engine, continued.
- Imports your existing Excel sheets through import masks
- Finite capacity scheduling across machines, labor and tooling
- Forward and backward scheduling
- What-if scenarios and a schedule optimizer
- Single user on SQLite or multi-user on SQL Server
EDGEBIC Complete
$35,000 one-time. Adds material planning to the schedule.
- Everything in EDGEBIC APS
- MRP with BOM explosion
- Inventory and purchasing
- Material pegging
- Material availability constrains the schedule
“This replaced a complex employee written Excel program that was becoming very time consuming and difficult to maintain. We were also able to use previously entered data from an Access Database to bring the system online quickly.”
Brian Kendall, Industrial Engineer
Kyocera Industrial Ceramics
Excel Migration Results
40 to 2 hrs
Basic weekly schedule moved from a 40-hour scheduler task to a 2-hour clerk task
Homestead Furniture
10→1
Separate Excel master files replaced by one unified system
USS Nimitz
3 Depts
Coordinated under one schedule, replacing 3 separate Excel systems
Kyocera
Zero
Learning curve thanks to Excel-compatible interface and data
Multiple Customers
Frequently Asked Questions
Excel Migration Success Stories
See how manufacturers upgraded from spreadsheet scheduling to RMDB.
Defense
Finite Capacity Scheduling of USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier
US Navy
Read storyElectronics
Li-Ion Battery Production Scheduling for Enevate
Enevate Corporation
Read storyConsumer Products
Affordable MRP for Smaller Manufacturer
Sleepmaster Ltd
Read storyWoodworking
Amish Manufacturer Rapidly Amortizes Scheduling System
Homestead Furniture
Read storyGlass Manufacturing
Job Shop Increases Throughput and On-Time Shipping
Technical Glass Products
Read storySoftware / Manufacturing
ERP Vendor and Manufacturer Turn to RMDB
ERP Partners
Read storyExplore Related Solutions
Discover how these capabilities work together to transform your manufacturing operations.
Production Scheduling
Finite capacity planning, MRP, and ERP integration
Learn moreMRP for Small Manufacturers
Material requirements planning without ERP complexity
Learn moreFinite Capacity Scheduling
Schedule to real machine, labor, and material limits
Learn moreJob Shop Scheduling
High-mix, low-volume finite capacity planning
Learn moreERP Integration
Bi-directional data sync with SAP, Oracle, Epicor, and more
Learn moreReady to outgrow your spreadsheet?
See EDGEBIC (RMDB 2.0) by User Solutions scheduling your own Excel data in a working session. RMDB and RMX customers remain fully supported.
Or see free Excel templates or pricing.