Anybody out there tracking tooling availability (think stamping or
molding die primarily) simlar to material availability?
Tools have a warehouse location so having an inventory balance of one
and a requirement (as a stocked material) of one on a BOM I guess
would be something simple that might work. I could probably backflush
it and then put it either back on the shelf (warehouse/bin) or send
it to a (non-nettable)'toolroom' warehouse for maintenance like
sharpening, etc.
A toolroom stock status report would show everything awaiting
maintenance of some kind and they could do a stock transfer to it's
home location when refurbished / repaired.
Where it gets tough for me to get my head around is seeing if I could
also keep track of how many parts the tool has made since its last
sharpening. We want to make sure we sharpen and/or examine tools
after a set number of hits. We use the 'max lot size' field to store
that value.
Complicating things also is the fact that many tools make more than
one part munber. Some with a simple change (remove a perf or change
material type) and some requiring extensive changing of die blocks,
etc..
Any ideas?
molding die primarily) simlar to material availability?
Tools have a warehouse location so having an inventory balance of one
and a requirement (as a stocked material) of one on a BOM I guess
would be something simple that might work. I could probably backflush
it and then put it either back on the shelf (warehouse/bin) or send
it to a (non-nettable)'toolroom' warehouse for maintenance like
sharpening, etc.
A toolroom stock status report would show everything awaiting
maintenance of some kind and they could do a stock transfer to it's
home location when refurbished / repaired.
Where it gets tough for me to get my head around is seeing if I could
also keep track of how many parts the tool has made since its last
sharpening. We want to make sure we sharpen and/or examine tools
after a set number of hits. We use the 'max lot size' field to store
that value.
Complicating things also is the fact that many tools make more than
one part munber. Some with a simple change (remove a perf or change
material type) and some requiring extensive changing of die blocks,
etc..
Any ideas?