Your Partner for Solving
Production Planning and Scheduling Challenges
Your Way!
Core Capabilities
It's the right time to focus on the main
challenges in production scheduling by:
Implementation & Optimization Process
We guide you through a structured five-step path to move from raw data to an Optimal Schedule that reflects shop-floor reality.
From a routing you drew to a plan you can defend
Six real screens from EDGEBIC by User Solutions, in the order you would actually use them. This is what planning a week looks like when the schedule respects finite capacity. Click any screen to see it full size.
Draw the routing as a flow chart, not a spreadsheet
Build every routing by dragging steps onto a canvas. Steps are nodes, dependencies are arrows, sub-assemblies branch where they really branch, and you can put a photo of the actual machine on each node. The plan ends up looking like the floor it runs on, so an operator recognizes it without training.
Drag and drop routing designer with sub-assemblies and machine images
Give managers the whole schedule on one timeline
A job level Gantt chart that answers the only questions an owner or plant manager actually asks. What ships this week, which jobs are late, and which ones are safe. No operation detail to wade through, no training session required before the first useful glance.
Job level Gantt chart built for top level managers
Move one operation and every downstream step re-plans
Every operation on every machine, on one board. Drag an operation to a different resource or a different hour and the schedule rebuilds instantly against finite capacity, so every downstream operation moves with it. You are planning, not chasing the consequences of planning.
Drag and drop planning board with instant finite capacity rebalancing
Know exactly where your capacity actually is
Utilization, assigned load, backlog and genuinely free capacity, broken out by shift, by work center, and across any date range you pick. This is the number you want in front of you before you promise a delivery date, quote overtime, or sign off on buying another machine.
Utilization, backlog and free capacity by shift, work center and date range
Ask what it would take, before you promise it
Run the plant again in memory with the mathematical solver. Open the weekend on one machine, run the day longer, add or remove a machine, or send an operation out to a vendor, plant-wide or for one job, then compare the result against the plan you are running now. Experiments run in memory: nothing is saved until you press Accept, completed work is never touched, and the answer is never worse than your current plan.
Mathematical solver and what-if variants, run in memory, plant-wide or per job
Charge the real changeover, not a flat average
Setup time depends on what the machine just finished. In a paint booth, white to black is fast and black to white is slow. Configure the from-to changeover matrix once at family level, override the individual products that behave differently, and every schedule after that charges the true changeover instead of one averaged number that is wrong in both directions.
Sequence dependent setup matrix with setup families and per-product overrides
See these six screens run on your own jobs
Bring one week of real work: your products, your machines, your shifts. We will build the routings, run the schedule, and show you the answer against your own numbers rather than a demo dataset.
EDGEBIC APS
$25,000
Advanced planning and scheduling
A plan the shop can actually run
Finite capacity scheduling for a plant that already knows what it needs to build. Every date the plan gives you is one the machines, shifts and people can genuinely hit.
- Finite capacity scheduling, forward and backward
- Schedule optimization, never worse than the plan you had
- Multi-shift capacity with holidays, downtime and overrides
- The Planner view: jobs and machines on one screen
- Drag and drop, staged until you save
- One live plan shared across every workstation
- Sequence-dependent setup, work center groups and alternates
- ERP integration by import and export
EDGEBIC Complete
$35,000
Planning, materials and inventory
The whole planning stack, one system
Everything in APS, plus the material side. Work out what to build and what to buy, and see the jobs that are waiting on a delivery instead of finding out on the floor.
Everything in EDGEBIC APS, plus:
- Multi-level MRP with dependent demand
- Inventory: on-hand ledger, projected balance, available to promise
- Master production schedule
- Purchasing, suppliers and receiving
- Material pegging: a job waits for the order that covers it
- Sales orders and firm demand
Already running RMDB, EDGEBI or Resource Manager for Excel? See what changes when you move to EDGEBIC, or talk to us about which edition fits.
Trusted by Manufacturers Worldwide for Over 35 Years
Joel K.
Lean Facilitator
Furniture
"Flexible MRP with great ongoing support"
A unique scheduling system with the flexibility we need for custom jobs that have many variables, at the right price point. User Solutions has great ongoing support needed for our continuous improvement objectives after initial implementation.
Robert K.
Epicor ERP Consultant
Management Consulting
"Resource Manager DB Review"
Being a seasoned Epicor Software ERP implementation consultant and also a customer for Resource Manager DB (RMDB) in a previous role working for Instruments For Research And Industry (IFRAI), I can personally state that RMDB is easier to implement than the larger ERP packages and requires minimal training, a short implementation cycle, minimal network infrastructure, data friendly import/export capability.
Mike W.
Regional Manager
Management Consulting
"Resource Manager Capabilities"
The software has many desirable capabilities, including the ability to engage in capacity planning by resource. However, the most powerful feature is the ability to engage in "what if" scenario analysis before firming a schedule, and the ability to do both forward and backward scheduling. Can answer the questions..... "if we start the order today, when will it be complete?" and "if the customer wants it by XX date, when do we need to start the order?"