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MRP Software For Plastics And Moulding
Output is a rate from a tool, not a count of operations, and the tool is an asset with a life of its own.
Operational Characteristics
- 1.
Production is measured in shots and cycle times. A run is a rate against a tool rather than a sequence of separate operations.
- 2.
Tools and moulds are assets in their own right, with cavity counts, maintenance intervals and a running shot count that decides when one comes out of service.
- 3.
Material is bought by weight as granule, dried, and frequently blended with regrind, so what is issued to a job does not map one-to-one onto what was purchased.
- 4.
Changeovers between tools take real hours on a real machine, and belong in the plan rather than in the setter’s head.
Common Control Gaps
Shot Counts Kept Beside The Machine
The running total lives on a whiteboard or a clipboard. A tool reaches its service interval when somebody notices, not when the plan says so.
Regrind That Never Reaches The Ledger
Reprocessed material goes back into the hopper and is used. The stock record still shows the virgin weight, so the next purchase recommendation is wrong before it is raised.
Changeover Time Outside The Plan
The schedule loads the run and ignores the two hours to pull one tool and prove the next, so every busy week overruns by the same amount and nobody can say why.
Plan Tool Maintenance Alongside Production
A tool reaches its service interval in the middle of a run. The decision is made by whoever is on shift, and the cost of taking it out late lands on a job that never sees it.
Relevant Capabilities
- 1.
Finite production planning
Changeovers and run time are both scheduled against the work centre and the hours somebody is rostered to it, with unattended running counted separately. - 2.
Stock, purchasing and receiving
Material is received, located and issued by weight and lot, so what went into a run is recorded rather than inferred. - 3.
Actual job costing
Material, machine time, labour and any subcontract land on the job that incurred them, so the next quotation for the same tool starts from evidence.
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