Mattec's Family Molding software works great in a variety of applications,
including the following:
- Left/Right And Front/Rear Parts
For example, you may be making one front bumper and one rear bumper every
machine cycle. Although the parts are related, you may make different
quantities of each or have a need to track SPC, scrap, and other data
individually.
With Family Molding, each part will be its own son job with its own
SPC history, scrap parts, lot size, forecasted end date, etc.
- Color Changes For The Same Part
For example, you may plan to make 50,000 black pen casings, 30,000
grey pen casings, and 20,000 red pen casings. All will be made with the
same tool (mold) and on the same machine.
With Family Molding, each color can be its own son job. The jobs will
be scheduled as one unit (that is, as a family), but each son job will
have its own lot size, forecasted end date, production history, and process
history. The system will accurately forecast when each son job will end
and when the next son job will start.
- Multiple Releases Of A Part
For example, your customer has ordered 200,000 parts, but wants 50,000
parts delivered May 1st, 50,000 parts delivered June 1st, etc.
With Family Molding, each delivery can be considered its own son job. As
such, each son job will have its own lot size and desired end date. The jobs
will be scheduled as one unit (that is, as a family), but each son job
will have its own lot size and forecasted end date. If desired, you can
even give each son job the same Job Number and still track the
son jobs individually.
- Unrelated Parts Made With The Same Base Mold
For example, you have 10 different "insert molds" (parts) that can be plugged
into the same "base mold" in different combinations. Each part's mold
may have a different number of cavities, and you have the need to track
Preventive Maintenance for the base mold and/or the individual molds that can
be inserted into the base mold.
As an example, today you might be making 3 key chains and 5 luggage tags
with each machine cycle now, but this evening you will be making 3 key chains
and 2 plastic toys with each machine cycle.
With Family Molding, this type of application is easily accomplished.
Each part (insert mold) will be its own unique son job. You can control the
number of jobs that will be running simultaneously (up to 100 per machine)
and the total number of son jobs in the family (up to 1,000 per family).
ProHelp® EPM will individually forecast when each son job will start/end
and you can easily rearrange the order in which son jobs will run using
Mattec's unique Gantt-In-Gantt Job Schedule. Production and process history
for each son job is maintained seperately for easy retrieval.
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