Epicor + AI engines: Has anyone actually tamed Epicor’s scheduling

[Mark_Wonsil]

This sounds more like a nesting problem and the scheduler will not do nesting for you.

Check out this post about batching and see if it gives you any ideas:

Job Batching -- Nesting Sheet Parts for CNC

We are in the process of setting up Epicor Kinetic and have run into, what we feel is, a very fundamental issue. Our shop has 2 Bystronic CNC lasers and 1 CNC waterjet. Primarily, we’re dealing in sheet metal material, which we nest multiple parts onto via a dedicated Bystronic nesting software. These “nests” can have dozens of different parts on it, with multiples of each. [Screenshot 2025-04-10 110017] I’ll give an example of the issue: Traditionally, we would sell a weldment on a sales o…