Platform area
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 2 machines as stations, 3-axis vertical machining centre 500, CNC lathe 200 swing, each with its hourly rate and utilisation stated as not known until scans measure it.
Why and how
- Why
- A machine shop needs its machines, people, schedule and job costs in one place.
- How
- Each machine module brings its own screens; machines, operators, schedule and costs span every one of them.
What is in it
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.
Setup
The machines, stock and cutting data each machine module reads, set once.
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.
Schedule
Jobs placed on machines against the daily capacity each machine has set.
Costs
What each job cost in machine time, labour and material; gaps stated, never zeroed.
The products that bring it
The parts it hosts
- CostingWhat a job cost against its machine and operator, standard against measured minutes, rolled up per machine, operator and month
- TraceabilityEvery shop job gets its own code, and starting or finishing it at a machine station records station in and out events
- MonitoringMachine idle: no run recorded against a machine for a set number of hours
- RolesThe operator role, and a machine station signed in by device key rather than by a person
- PresetsA preset switches its machine modules on and adds an inactive machine station, never a machine, a rate or a cut chart
- ActivityA job moved at a machine station is one trace event carrying the station, and its measured minutes land on costing
It follows your products
- AI
- Orders
- Customers
- Machinist
- AI
- Sales
- Quotes
- Orders
- Customers
- Products
- Catalogue
- Stock
- Servicing
- Operations
- Machinist
- Route
Questions
- 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