Job Planning

Job Planning reviews material requirements and builds a ‘job traveler.’ This begins with a standardized process that is then fine-tuned to each specific job. The job traveler is a set of documentation and instructions that follows an order from inception to completion of the job, and defines the most efficient processes (sawing, grinding or milling) to be used in meeting the customer’s specifications. Once this job traveler is built, materials are issued from inventory and released into production to the appropriate work-center (sawing, grinding or milling). Whenever a team member touches a job, they log into a data-collection workstation and record the work performed on that job.