We use to set the tool up as a material like you did, but we would issue the
part to the job. We determined that we would decrease the cost of the tool
by 50% of its existing value every time it was used. At the end of the job
we would receive the tool back into it's part number and bin to indicate
that it was available for use on the next job. When we received it back
into inventory we received it at 50% of its value at that time. If the tool
broke during a job and had to be replaced we did not issue it back but left
the remaining cost on the job and received the new tool back into inventory
at its current value. So if a new tool cost $500.00, the first time it was
issue to a job the job absorbed $250.00 and it was returned to inventory at
$250.00. The next job received $125.00 and we returned it to inventory at
$125.00, etc. Because of the number of run normally done with a tool and
the life expectancy, for various reasons, The tool was usually consumed by
about the 4th or 5th usage. It was also reasonable to assume that it was
more likely to need replacing the more times it was removed and put back
into service. If your usage is difference you could use a difference
percentage or a fixed dollar amount.
We kept the tool location by bin. The bin represented the location on the
tooling cage. If the bin had 0 in it, the tool was already on a job and
showed as a material shortage during scheduling, which kept us from
scheduling two jobs with the same tool. Hope this was helpful.
Cameron A. Janish
Misha1
866-464-7421
cameron@...
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Marston [mailto:
pmarston@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 05:44 PM
To: '
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Subject: [Vantage] Tool Numbers as a Material
Our company does die casting. In order to know what tools are available
for
making parts we added the them as a material, quantity of 1 fixed, on the
ABOM and related them to an operation so they would be backflushed when
production is reported. The problem we are having is that they are
backflushed as a percentage of what has been produced of the total job
quantity. We need to be able to track the output of a tool as relates to
pieces produced over a period of time for life of a tool.
Does anyone else have tooling that they use to make a product you are
tracking against a job for usage, life and also to show its availability?
If so can you offer suggestions on how you have worked around this
problem?
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