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From the production plan to quality control — you can tell which lot every part you delivered came from.

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Slide of the machines that worked the most in April: six machines with hours, work orders, log entries and each one’s share of the total.
A real system screen, with sample data. The screens are in Portuguese today.Scroll sideways to see the whole screen.

The machines that worked the most this month. A real system screen, with sample data. The screens are in Portuguese today. Scroll sideways to see the whole screen.

A day in this industry

The schedule arrives in a spreadsheet; the complaint, by the lot

Output dropped and nobody knows whether it was a machine down, material that didn’t show up or a long setup.

NCRs are filled out by hand; at year-end nobody knows how much was scrap and how much was rework.

With Develop

From the customer’s schedule to a part you can account for

  • The schedule comes in without retyping
  • The shop floor logs, production planning reads the capacity
  • Material with certs, vendors with a score
  • The part ships released and traceable
What a production parts shop needs from a system

Scheduled releases

  • Customer schedule imported from the customer’s own file, without retyping
  • Daily shipping plan by customer
  • Load by machine and by employee, week by week
  • Each item split between make, buy, pull from stock or rework

A shop floor with numbers

  • Time logged on a touchscreen, with good parts and scrap
  • Live machine dashboard, with machines that are down listed first
  • Downtime hours by reason, in decimal hours
  • Capacity utilization by machine group

Quality the customer audits

  • Control plan by customer and part, with each characteristic’s class
  • NCRs with severity, due date and corrective action
  • Disposition as scrap, rework, use-as-is or repair
  • Gauge calibration with interval, deviation and next due date

Vendors under evaluation

  • Vendor quality score, month by month
  • Receiving inspection with checklist, attachments and verdict
  • New vendor qualification: certifying body, questionnaire and certificates
  • Minimum score by vendor profile, with a meets / does not meet status

New parts and traced lots

  • New part development in sixteen stages, planned vs. actual
  • Sample (first article) approval in the design review
  • Material cert and heat number of the lot issued to the job
  • Consolidated spec sheet in PDF, revision history included

The modules that matter here: Production, Quality, Engineering, Projects, Inventory, and Purchasing.

Which lot did the last part your customer rejected come from?

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FAQ

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My OEM customer sends me a release schedule every month.

It’s imported from the customer’s file or from the spreadsheet, and the grid merges instead of starting over. We check the file format with you before promising anything — every customer sends it differently.

My customer requires lot traceability.

The material requisition carries the cert and heat number of the lot issued to the job, and traceability links customer and part number to the jobs, the invoices and the open balance. It works if the material is issued through the requisition — that discipline is what implementation sets up.

The customer audits my control plan.

The plan is by customer and part, with the characteristics classified, and final inspection pulls the right plan on its own. The form your auditors have already approved is kept as it is.

Does it do SPC?

Control charts are not part of it. What exists is expected vs. achieved capability within the new part’s design review — and we’d rather say so than sell what isn’t there.

And preventive maintenance for my presses and molding machines?

Not that either. Downtime is logged with reason, start and end, and downtime hours by reason come out in a report — but preventive maintenance plans and maintenance work orders are not part of the system today.

My machine utilization came out with a strange number.

Almost always there’s a machine on file that isn’t a machine — an outside service, outside heat treat — adding capacity that doesn’t exist. The report tells you how many records were left out of the calculation and why.

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