Best way to handle plasma cutting jobs

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Hi Eric,



I'm interested in this problem. Did you get any off-line help on it?



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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of homestyleindustries
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:29 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Best way to handle plasma cutting jobs



Andrew,

It depends. Typically most of the parts would be for jobs but for
utilization as well as labor purposes we will fill the sheet with
other parts for stock. This way the operator doesn't have to remove a
partially cut sheet, and put it in stock and hope to use it later.
There are other times that the sheet will be filled with nothing but
parts for a job. Yet, at no point will we ever cut all parts on one
sheet for inventory.

Eric
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"Andrew Best" <abest@...> wrote:
>
> When you are plasma cutting, are you cutting parts for specific jobs
or
> are you cutting plasma cut parts to stock?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
>
> Andrew Best
>
> Kice Industries, Inc.
>
> P(316)744-7151
>
> F(316)295-2412
>
>
>
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf
> Of Tim Russell
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:21 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Vantage] Re: Best way to handle plasma cutting jobs
>
>
>
> Our business is distribution of plastic sheet. We cut the sheet into
> pieces (all have 4 corners) based upon the needs of our customers.
We
> don't care about the parts we cut the sheet into so we created a
part
> in our inventory called CutPart and we set up Jobs to make 1 CutPart
> all day long. We then issue the required material and labor
necessary
> to cut the cutomers parts, then we actually only ship 1 CutPart off
> each Job to the customer.
>
> Works very well once you get everyone to understand the process. Let
> me know if you would like to discuss our process further.
>
> Tim
> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> "homestyleindustries"
> <homestyleindustries@> wrote:
> >
> > I am coming closer and closer to our go live date and need some
> > advice. I am implementing Vantage at a metal manufacturer that
does
> a
> > lot of jobs on a plasma cutter. There will be a lot of different
> > parts that come off of one piece of sheet metal (10 or 12
parts/sheet
> > at most). What is the best way to handle this in terms of jobs? I
> > don't see how setting up a job for each will really work with MES
> > (operator would spend more time clocking into jobs than actually
> > cutting). Any other plasma cutter users out there? How do you
handle
> > this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Eric
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>





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I am coming closer and closer to our go live date and need some
advice. I am implementing Vantage at a metal manufacturer that does a
lot of jobs on a plasma cutter. There will be a lot of different
parts that come off of one piece of sheet metal (10 or 12 parts/sheet
at most). What is the best way to handle this in terms of jobs? I
don't see how setting up a job for each will really work with MES
(operator would spend more time clocking into jobs than actually
cutting). Any other plasma cutter users out there? How do you handle
this?

Thanks in advance

Eric
3
Our business is distribution of plastic sheet. We cut the sheet into
pieces (all have 4 corners) based upon the needs of our customers. We
don't care about the parts we cut the sheet into so we created a part
in our inventory called CutPart and we set up Jobs to make 1 CutPart
all day long. We then issue the required material and labor necessary
to cut the cutomers parts, then we actually only ship 1 CutPart off
each Job to the customer.

Works very well once you get everyone to understand the process. Let
me know if you would like to discuss our process further.

Tim
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "homestyleindustries"
<homestyleindustries@...> wrote:
>
> I am coming closer and closer to our go live date and need some
> advice. I am implementing Vantage at a metal manufacturer that does
a
> lot of jobs on a plasma cutter. There will be a lot of different
> parts that come off of one piece of sheet metal (10 or 12 parts/sheet
> at most). What is the best way to handle this in terms of jobs? I
> don't see how setting up a job for each will really work with MES
> (operator would spend more time clocking into jobs than actually
> cutting). Any other plasma cutter users out there? How do you handle
> this?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Eric
>
4
When you are plasma cutting, are you cutting parts for specific jobs or
are you cutting plasma cut parts to stock?



Regards,





Andrew Best

Kice Industries, Inc.

P(316)744-7151

F(316)295-2412



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Tim Russell
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:21 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Best way to handle plasma cutting jobs



Our business is distribution of plastic sheet. We cut the sheet into
pieces (all have 4 corners) based upon the needs of our customers. We
don't care about the parts we cut the sheet into so we created a part
in our inventory called CutPart and we set up Jobs to make 1 CutPart
all day long. We then issue the required material and labor necessary
to cut the cutomers parts, then we actually only ship 1 CutPart off
each Job to the customer.

Works very well once you get everyone to understand the process. Let
me know if you would like to discuss our process further.

Tim
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"homestyleindustries"
<homestyleindustries@...> wrote:
>
> I am coming closer and closer to our go live date and need some
> advice. I am implementing Vantage at a metal manufacturer that does
a
> lot of jobs on a plasma cutter. There will be a lot of different
> parts that come off of one piece of sheet metal (10 or 12 parts/sheet
> at most). What is the best way to handle this in terms of jobs? I
> don't see how setting up a job for each will really work with MES
> (operator would spend more time clocking into jobs than actually
> cutting). Any other plasma cutter users out there? How do you handle
> this?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Eric
>





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Andrew,

It depends. Typically most of the parts would be for jobs but for
utilization as well as labor purposes we will fill the sheet with
other parts for stock. This way the operator doesn't have to remove a
partially cut sheet, and put it in stock and hope to use it later.
There are other times that the sheet will be filled with nothing but
parts for a job. Yet, at no point will we ever cut all parts on one
sheet for inventory.

Eric
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Best" <abest@...> wrote:
>
> When you are plasma cutting, are you cutting parts for specific jobs
or
> are you cutting plasma cut parts to stock?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
>
> Andrew Best
>
> Kice Industries, Inc.
>
> P(316)744-7151
>
> F(316)295-2412
>
>
>
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf
> Of Tim Russell
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:21 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Re: Best way to handle plasma cutting jobs
>
>
>
> Our business is distribution of plastic sheet. We cut the sheet into
> pieces (all have 4 corners) based upon the needs of our customers.
We
> don't care about the parts we cut the sheet into so we created a
part
> in our inventory called CutPart and we set up Jobs to make 1 CutPart
> all day long. We then issue the required material and labor
necessary
> to cut the cutomers parts, then we actually only ship 1 CutPart off
> each Job to the customer.
>
> Works very well once you get everyone to understand the process. Let
> me know if you would like to discuss our process further.
>
> Tim
> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> "homestyleindustries"
> <homestyleindustries@> wrote:
> >
> > I am coming closer and closer to our go live date and need some
> > advice. I am implementing Vantage at a metal manufacturer that
does
> a
> > lot of jobs on a plasma cutter. There will be a lot of different
> > parts that come off of one piece of sheet metal (10 or 12
parts/sheet
> > at most). What is the best way to handle this in terms of jobs? I
> > don't see how setting up a job for each will really work with MES
> > (operator would spend more time clocking into jobs than actually
> > cutting). Any other plasma cutter users out there? How do you
handle
> > this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Eric
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>