While I'm Uploading Tracking Sheets....
In my last post, I re-figured out how to attach files to the post and uploaded a file of a changeover tracking sheet the box company is using.
At the metal stamping firm I just finished with, we developed a production tracking form, similar in format, a bit different in terms of how we used it.
Here it is. Again, it should download just by clicking on the link. And, again, it's an Excel file.
At the metal stamping firm I just finished with, we developed a production tracking form, similar in format, a bit different in terms of how we used it.
Here it is. Again, it should download just by clicking on the link. And, again, it's an Excel file.
Stamping Press Production and Changeover Tracking Chart
A bit more info is kept on this than on the box company changeover chart but the fundamental idea is the same: a user friendly chart that shows, at a glance, whether the operator is having a good day or not.
In this case, the operator stopped the stamping press once each hour to do a quality check. We asked that he (all the operators are male) also make a mark on the chart for the hour he had just finished: "X" if he had produced at the standard rate, "+" if he had produced above the standard rate, "-" if he had produced below the standard rate.
He also kept track of tearouts/resets (when a stamping die has a problem, it is removed or "torn out", looked at, fixed if needed, and put back into the press or "reset") and changeovers. In both cases, the operators just put the appropriate symbols (T - Tearout, R-Reset, C-Complete, O-1st good part verified by quality).
We used 18"x24" sheets and put new sheets up each week.
Lots of info in one place that's easy to record, easy to analyze, and easy to respond to. Agile manufacturing at its best.
A bit more info is kept on this than on the box company changeover chart but the fundamental idea is the same: a user friendly chart that shows, at a glance, whether the operator is having a good day or not.
In this case, the operator stopped the stamping press once each hour to do a quality check. We asked that he (all the operators are male) also make a mark on the chart for the hour he had just finished: "X" if he had produced at the standard rate, "+" if he had produced above the standard rate, "-" if he had produced below the standard rate.
He also kept track of tearouts/resets (when a stamping die has a problem, it is removed or "torn out", looked at, fixed if needed, and put back into the press or "reset") and changeovers. In both cases, the operators just put the appropriate symbols (T - Tearout, R-Reset, C-Complete, O-1st good part verified by quality).
We used 18"x24" sheets and put new sheets up each week.
Lots of info in one place that's easy to record, easy to analyze, and easy to respond to. Agile manufacturing at its best.
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