The shop, machines, operators, schedule and costs
The Machinist area holds each machine module's screens, plus machines, operators, schedule and costs across them.
The Machinist Machines view with 3 machines as stations, Plasma table 1, Wire EDM 1, CNC mill 1, each with its hourly rate and utilisation stated as not known until scans measure it.
What is in it
Each machine module brings its own screens; machines, operators, schedule and costs span every one of them.
Setup
The machines, stock and cutting data each machine module reads, set once.
The Arcline cut chart as it ships: 7 rows of feed, pierce and kerf per material and thickness, 7 of them marked estimated until an engineer saves the shop's own figures. Aluminium 5083 is listed with no row, so no part can be drawn in it yet.
Schedule
Jobs placed on machines against the daily capacity each machine has set.
The Machinist Schedule view for one demonstration week: 11 jobs placed on 3 machines, each lane laid out against the daily capacity its machine was given, read only.
- First on CNC mill 1
- KAB-J26-00005Pump housing face and bore, Burneston Pumps
- First on Plasma table 1
- KAB-J26-00016The nest of CUT-2 for Saxby Engineering Ltd
- First on Wire EDM 1
- KAB-J26-00001Punch die insert, Nettleham Tool and Die
Costs
What each job cost in machine time, labour and material; gaps stated, never zeroed.
The Machinist Costs view by job: 6 finished jobs from the demonstration workspace, each with its standard minutes, the minutes its scans measured and the machine cost at its station's rate. Labour shows as missing because no labour rate was set.
Shop
Now, per machine module: open orders, the queue, low stock and the trail.
Parts
Each machine module's part library, with the material every part is made from.
Orders
Production orders by customer and due date: what is nested, cut or outstanding.
Cut or run
The queue grouped by material and thickness, then nested onto real sheets and run.
Machines
Every machine as a station, with its hourly rate, current job and measured utilisation.
Operators
Who runs which machine, their certifications and their hourly rate on the cost card.
Comes with
Questions
- A machine shop needs its machines, people, schedule and job costs in one place.
- Machinist brings it, with a machine module for each kind of machine you run.More on Machinist
- Utilisation is scan minutes over the capacity you set. With no capacity or no scans, the screen says why rather than showing zero.
- Yes. Each machine is a station with its own device key, and every plan includes a number of stations.More on Pricing