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Measurable:
• Productivity
• Reduced set-up
• Improve runtime
• Improve throughput
• Reduce Scrap
• Reduce Job setup cost
Intangible benefits:
• Quality
• Accuracy
• Flexibility
Cost of not changing
• Lower efficiencies
• Longer than planned
set-up times
• Requires vanishing
skills
• Requires “tweaking”
to successfully run good parts
• Produces scrap parts,
hurting efficiency, adding to material cost
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Things that are
surprisingly overlooked by companies:
Allowing CNC operators
to manually program their CNC machines. This is very costly in several
ways even with “our simple parts”. Potential typing error, and the
operator has to cautiously step through the first part run off to allow
for any mistakes.
Operators need to leave
their machine to go get the CNC code from another location like a floppy
disk or a USB device (yes, there are companies still doing this)
Operators select their
own tooling for their programs so there is no consistency across the
shop.
What really
happens once the CNC operator receives his next job. Do you have a way
to monitor cycle time, setup time, idle time, etc.? How are you
currently tracking these to be more efficient?
There's more.
However, this justification method does not consider important technical
and strategic aspects for maintaining competitiveness. Quality for
instance is one of today's top priorities for end-users.
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Payback.
Doing a Return on Investment analysis can help you to make a good
decision. The ROI indicates how the investment will impact a company's
cash flow, based upon the revenues and expenses associated with the
project.
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