Case Study – Re-task labour to sort add-on parts for a fabricator
RE-TASK LABOUR TO SORT ADD-ON PARTS FOR A FABRICATOR
Innovation has arrived to remove cost and improve the schedule for the structural steel fabricator to sort the add-on parts prior to fabrication.
SMS is yet to witness any steel service centre or fabricator with in-house processing machines supply add-on parts that are sorted to a fabrication workshop. Every fabricator has low skilled labour sorting the correct add-on parts to be fabricated for the correct beam. This unavoidable manual part sorting process increases the man-hours per tone to fabricate and increases a delivery schedule.
No fabricator wants to have boilermakers/fitters waiting for add-on parts to be sorted before they can be fabricated and assembled to beams. A structural steel workshop with a capacity of 3000 ton per year will have 10-15% of this tonnage for add-on parts. How man man-hours a month would it take your fabrication workshop to sort through 450 ton of add-on parts? SMS has two solutions!
- Add-on part Steel Part Sorting (SPS) machine that will sort angle, channel, H beam, flat and SHS parts.
- CNC flat bar add-on part processing machine with automatic outfeed part sorting.
A steel service centre motivated to re-task man-hours from their clients' workshop will win more work when supplying add-on parts that have been sorted prior to dispatch. This will improve the fabricator's cost and schedule so they will place orders accordingly.
The fabricator that has add-on parts supplied externally or internally can now have these parts sorted cost-effectively so man-hours can be re-tasked and price per ton to fabricate can be improved.
Either the fabricator or steel service centre can invest in a CNC flat bar add-on parts processing machine with the automatic outfeed sorting system from SMS. This strategy will improve cost and schedule and increase profit when processing a low cost commoditized structural steel add-on part.
Additional cost and schedule savings can be reviewed on the following case studies and white papers when processing add-on parts on a CNC flat bar machine with the option for automation out-feed part sorting functionality.
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