production

A systematic organization of the production is of vital importance for glass processing companies and therefore to be seen as an essential module of our applying software. In fact, the optimizing of the cutting was the starting point of all developments in this area.

The following steps can be actually done:

· completing of the commercial data taken from the registration of orders, with additional technical data for the production (formation of "jobs").

· integration of the "jobs" in producing units ("batches"), via backward termination taking into consideration the producing characterristics (automatic by producing classes) or manually.

· observing the making use of the capacties of the single "batch" as well as the transfering of the production and with it analyses of the involved types of glass.

· detailed planning of the production with calculation of the pane placement to trolleys, the optimizing of the cutting as well as the creating of all production papers and CNC data.

· compelition of the detailed planning with the data possibly available for the monitoring of the production and delivery via BDE..

Starting point for such organisations are the problems which arise during the processing of glass:

· minimizing of the clippings
· structured putting together of the various production components (glass and frame for insulating glass; similarily with the production of VSG or poured resin panes.
· delivery

The minimizing of the clippings is made via appropriate optimizimg programms (here microOpt), which have shown good results if a lot of possibly different measurements of one type of glass are optimized. Therefore, it should be aimed at a collection of special types of glass in single batches (which cannot often be done ideally, but should be aimed at).
The result is:

· printed cutting pictures
· data for the presentation of cutting pictures
· CNC-Codes for cutting machines

Further lists depending on the organisation for:

· lists for cutting by hand (for glasses which either cannot be cut automatically or for whose amounts an optimizing is not worth it)
· labels (if needed with barcodes)

In addition to all other possible organization methods, one method which works via setting aside in slot trolleys has proven to be the most flexible and the least costly.

The advantages are:

· hardly any restrictions for the minimizing of clippings
· easy checking if complete
· possibility of the consideration of production sequence and / or the sequence of delivery racks
· flexible production sequence (see below)

The increased amount of time used for the placement of the panes is regained easily through saving time during further production processes.

For the further production process it is essential to combine the glass panes being in the slot trolleys with the SZR frames etc. Because of this one should organize the control (CNC - codes) of the frame bending systems per slot trolley. That way it is possible, as aside effect, to pull forward slot trolleys alredy completly cut in the further production while others are still waiting for the complementary of spezial glasses.

While applying certain measurements we can via BDE find out and evaluate dynamically the condition of a slot trolley altogether as well as the condition of a single compartment of it.

The possibility of the dynamical managing of the processing increases as soon as the production units are linked with the server and flexible methods for the transfer of data are at hand.

As last consequence, the single production units could be aimed at dynamically and individually concerning the panes, which is only partially possible concerning the machines.