Offcuts and nest reports: keep usable sheet, issue a nest across several work orders
Keep the usable piece of a sheet as an offcut with its size, find it again by size, and use it on another work order. A nest report pasted from your nesting software issues its sheets and cut time across every work order in the nest at once.
Where it is
- Manufacturing → Offcuts
- Manufacturing → Orders — Return or use an offcut under a work order's Materials
Settings for this
- Inventory → Products — A sheet or plate needs its stock size (Material) before it can have offcuts
Offcuts work for any sheet or plate product with a stock size (length × width, under Material on the product). Recording them needs the Produce manufacturing permission.
Returning an offcut
On a work order, under Materials, a sheet material shows Return an offcut once some of it has been issued. Measure the usable rectangle and type its length and width. The offcut's share of a full sheet, by area, goes back into stock and off the order's material cost: a 1200 × 600 piece of a 2400 × 1200 sheet is 0.25 of a sheet. It gets a code (R-00001…) to write on it, and shows on Manufacturing → Offcuts.
Using an offcut
On another work order that uses the same material, Use an offcut lists what's on the rack, smallest first. Type the size you need to see only the pieces big enough, either way round. Use issues the offcut's share of a sheet to the order and marks it used.
Scrapping an offcut
On Offcuts, Scrap takes an offcut off the rack and its share of a sheet out of stock, with a reason if you give one.
Nest reports
At the bottom of Offcuts, Apply a nest report takes the job list your nesting software exports (or a spreadsheet you paste). It needs a header row with the work order number, the sheet's SKU, the sheets each order used (decimals for a part sheet), and the cut time in minutes (also 1:30:00 or 1.5 h). An optional step column names the routing step to put the time on; without it the time goes on the order's first step at a centre with a machine rate, else its first cutting step.
Give the nest its reference: the same reference can't be applied twice. Every row is checked first (the order is open, it uses that SKU), and if any row is wrong nothing moves. Then each order gets its sheets issued and its step gets the machine time. When the operator finishes that step, the nest's time is used unless they type their own. A step that was already finished takes the nest's time straight away, and the order's machine cost catches up.
Return the nest's usable skeleton pieces as offcuts from whichever order you like.