Manufacturing and Industrial
Software for Glass Manufacturing
Cutting and processing where breakage is constant, offcuts have real value, and every panel is made to a dimension.
Glass processing is cut-to-size work on a material that breaks. Yield from a sheet depends on how cuts are nested, breakage happens at every stage, and a panel made to the wrong dimension cannot be reworked. The economics are decided by nesting and by how much of the sheet leaves as a sale.
What gets in the way
- Yield per sheet depends on nesting and is rarely measured
- Breakage occurs at cutting, processing, handling and delivery with no attribution
- Offcuts are usable and unfindable, so new sheets are cut
- Site dimensions change between measurement and manufacture
- Toughening and coating add stages that are not costed separately
What the software handles
- Cut plans recorded with the sheet they came from
- Breakage recorded at the stage where it occurs
- Offcuts recorded with usable dimensions and location
- Site measurements dated, with a re-check before cutting
- Processing stages costed individually rather than as one rate
What changes
- Yield per sheet visible and improvable
- Breakage attributable to a stage rather than accepted as a percentage
- Offcuts used before new sheets are cut
- Rework from stale site dimensions reduced
Software for your glass manufacturing business
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