Notes on production management, quality and traceability.
Tooling is the cost item most often lost: bought, handed out, misplaced, and never written against any part.
A single percentage does not run a factory. OEE only becomes useful when it is split into its three components.
The delay does not happen in the last week; it becomes visible in the last week. The difference lies in where the plan is kept.
The quietest gap in calibration tracking. With the set incomplete, the check still looks passed in the record — but half of it wa…
"The machine stopped for three hours" changes no decision. What changes decisions is the reason, picked from a list at the moment…
If this number is unknown, part cost comes out short and the price always rests on a guess. The calculation takes half an hour.
Audits rarely fail because a procedure is missing. They stall because the record proving the procedure was followed cannot be pro…
If actual work order cost never feeds back into quoting, every quotation is derived from the estimate behind the previous one.
In job shops the same part is rarely produced on the same machine twice. Where the routing lives decides how flexible your planni…
We listen to how you produce and decide together which modules you need. Installation is done on site and training is included.
