Good morning All,
I’ve recently partnered up with two of my long-time Army brothers to start a Machine Shop. We bought a failing shop in March and are now finally resuming production. I want to update our shop routing systems and create routing processes. Since we’re high mix, can I create a template process? Or will each specific job require complete attentiveness and it’s own specific process.
If you guys could help out that’d be great. Any feedback, documents, manuals you could send over would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
–Gungnir Actual
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When I managed a job shop many moons ago and before I used any shop routing software. I created a spreadsheet to help determine similar process flows. At top in each column, I would list a process, usually in a logical sequential order, eg. Saw, Deburr, Lathe, Inspect, Package, Ship. or Saw, Mill, 2nd Op Mill, Clean, Inspect, Package, Ship, as examples, You should be able to see your entire process chain by adding all the processes available.
In the vertical first column would the the work order. I would then in my planning phase, start entering a sequential number in the corresponding fields under each process. After a brief period of job creation and planning, I could see certain jobs had the same process flow, then I created a template that I could apply when another like-kind job came up.
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@ReedMatz,
Congradulations on your venture! I would definitely take a look at Autodesk Fusion Production. It is a shop management tool that will help you to streamline and stay up to date with the day to day operations of your shop. Highly recommend it!
-Shawn
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I agree Fusion Production will help immensely. It did for me.
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