Finding jobs running to a superseded drawing revision
The traveller in the hand of the operator carries the revision printed at release. The item master carries another, because an engineering change notice landed by mail two weeks later and somebody updated the record without pulling the paper. The comparison itself is arithmetic on two fields. The decision behind it is not, since a live job may have material already cut to the old geometry, and a loosened tolerance is not the same problem as a moved hole. Superseding a controlled print has to leave the old one retrievable.
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.
- Epicor Kinetic
- JobBOSS2
- Excel
When this is the wrong thing to build
Pick something else if your work is all repeat parts on frozen prints where a revision letter has not moved in years. This pays where customers push engineering changes mid run, and it needs the current revision to exist in one place. If the newest print lives in a mailbox rather than a controlled folder, fix that first.
The constraint that shapes it
Quality certification is the constraint that shapes everything here. More on how this sector works.
Two sources of truth. One queue of the rows that do not line up. Read what this shape is, or start from one of these.
- Rebuilding an annual operating expense reconciliation from the lease
- Reconciling a broker trust account three ways every month
- Matching a closed transaction back to the lead that produced it
- Collapsing two overlapping MLS feeds into one property list
- Widening a conflicts search past exact spelling
- Rebuilding a billable day from the trail the systems already keep
- How do I find open jobs running to an old drawing revision?
- What happens when an engineering change arrives after the traveller prints?
- How do I recall printed travellers after a revision change?
- Does superseding a controlled drawing require keeping the previous version?
- Why does the router revision not match the drawing revision?
Back to manufacturing, or see how this is priced and scoped.