...nearly forgot, we also stamp the part numbers on the materials whenever practical.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Kerry_Muntz" <kerry_muntz@...> wrote:
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> Hi, firstly, do you know 'why' you want to be paperless? Is it just because it's perceived to be a green thing? Is it because the current paperwork is confusing? What are you willing to sacrifice for it?
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> We had a reduced paperwork environment - where any sheetmetal jobs did not get a paper traveller. Instead they got a spreadsheet of the required work (custom cutlist), that enabled basic planning by our punch operator, as well as custom stickers (address label size) with all qty, routing and material info etc that would be attached to a part belonging to each job. Labour was captured, so tracking was easy via reports. Job washup would be done en-mass via reports that would filter out the jobs with major descrepancies. Jobs with acceptable variances were closed via macros. We had this running both on 6.1 and 8.03.405 before going "Lean".
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> Lean promised us many things, including a reduction in paperwork. I don't know whether paperwork is reduced. T-cards (mini job cards) are now used for many things, though we don't really manage jobs in the traditional sense anymore. I'm not a believer, so I'm probably going to be pretty biased. We kanban-receipt finished products only, and everything in between is assumed to have been produced as per bom or quote. IMO it doesn't really suit production environments with high product variation.
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> If anything mentioned above helps, I'd be happy to go into it further.
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> Kerry.
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> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Norman Hutchins <nhutchins@> wrote:
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> > Wondering if there is anyone running paperless on the shop floor (job queues
> > in MES), that might be willing to have a brief conference call with our
> > production group.
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> >
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> > Paperless is our goal, but we are struggling on how to make it work and
> > would love to pick someone else's brain for a bit.
> >
> >
> >
> > Norman Hutchins
> >
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> > Howell Laboratories, Inc.
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> > Shively Labs
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> > 207-647-3327
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