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ALS 4.0 XE
PRODUCT MANUAL
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For the example Standard Piece List presented earlier
you would need six bins (similar to the diagram above)
to store the Standard Pieces when they are cut by
the ALS.
When you load a job into the ALS, it looks for any
of these six pieces that might be in the job and
automatically marks them as already cut on the
assumption that the bins have enough in them to build
that job.
Each time the assembly crews build a job that needs
some of these pieces, they go to these bins and get
what they need. But if one of the bins is full, and you
don’t need any more of those pieces for a while, you
can mark that piece with a red ag. The Standard
Pieces feature will not cut any more of that piece until
you change the mark to green. In the example above,
the bin for 16RB is full. That’s why its ag is red on the
Standard Piece List.
Conversely, let’s say one of the bins is chronically low,
like the 14DIAG and 16DIAG above. You can correct that
situation by setting the priority for that piece higher.
That’s why these pieces are priority 1 and 2 on the
example Standard Piece List. If that fails to cut enough
of those pieces to keep the assembly line supplied, it
probably means that the piece is not a good candidate
for the Standard Piece feature. Remove it from the
Standard Piece list, and the ALS program will cut it with
every job where it is needed.
You can make changes to the priority or ags at any
time and as often as necessary. There will be a period of
“tuning” the process to nd the combination that works
best for your operation. After that, frequent changes will
probably not be necessary.
Using this simple Dead Reckoning Inventory system,
you will be able to keep an adequate supply of Standard
Pieces, but you won’t have to maintain a detailed
inventory management system. Just keep an eye on
the Standard Piece bins and make some common sense
adjustments when necessary.
If you try to open StdPcs.trs as a job, all the pieces will
be marked cut, and you will not be able to restore
them very easily. If this ever happens, use the following
procedure. Go to the Standard Piece List, turn OFF Mark
Found Pieces Cut, Save, go back to the StdPcs.TRS job
le, use the Restore function to remove the red marks,
Change Job Location to another directory, go back to
Standard Piece List, turn ON Mark Found Pieces Cut,
and Save.
Dead Reckoning Inventory System – This is a simple,
common sense system for making sure that the
Standard Piece function produces enough, but not too
much, of the pieces you need. Let’s look at a sample
Standard Piece List:
Figure 31
There are two controls that are used in the Dead
Reckoning Inventory Control System, and both of them
are on this list.
1. Priority – Note that the highest priority has been
assigned to the longest pieces in the set. That way,
these longer pieces will be cut as often as possible.
Since they are the longest pieces, they would not
be chosen as frequently if the shorter pieces had a
higher priority.
2. Flags – Also note that one of the pieces (4) is
marked with a red ag (darker gray in illustration).
As long as that ag is red, that piece will not be cut.
Figure 32
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