Filing a mill test report against the heat received
Bars arrive on Tuesday and the certificates arrive on Friday, as a PDF attached to a mail from the service centre, often covering several heats in one file. Somebody has to split it and match the heat number on each page to the number stamped on the end of the bar. A type 3.1 certificate under EN 10204 reports specific inspection of the delivered material, validated by someone independent of production, where a type 2.2 test report carries results from non-specific inspection that need not come from the heat in the rack. On defence orders that carry a specialty metals restriction, the country of melt printed on the page is what an auditor will ask about.
The quote was built against one revision and the drawing in the operator hand is another, which is the defect this sector is built around.
A request to quote arrives as an archive of geometry files and drawings, or as a line in a customer portal, or as a scan. An estimator opens each one, decomposes the part into operations mentally, estimates setup and run times, and emails suppliers for material pricing before typing a number into a spreadsheet.
- Outlook
- JobBOSS2
- Excel
When this is the wrong thing to build
Pick something else if you buy material only from one mill on standing orders and the certificate arrives inside the same portal as the invoice. The work is worth doing when material comes from several service centres in different formats, and when a customer can ask you to produce the certificate for a heat shipped long ago.
The constraint that shapes it
Quality certification is the constraint that shapes everything here. More on how this sector works.
A file arrives. The fields come back typed and checkable. Read what this shape is, or start from one of these.
- Reading dates out of a ratified contract
- Abstracting a commercial lease into dated fields
- Filling an MLS input sheet from the listing agreement
- Turning a docket entry into a calendar
- Turning a delivered transcript into a usable set of cites
- Coding a filing fee to the matter that will repay it
- How do I match a mill certificate to the heat on the rack?
- What is the difference between EN 10204 type 3.1 and 2.2?
- Where is the heat number stamped on a bar of steel?
- How do I prove domestic melt for a defence machining order?
- What happens to traceability when a remnant goes back untagged?
Back to manufacturing, or see how this is priced and scoped.