Anerol C
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I'm working in a company where I'm not sure how we could improve identification.
The flow of process is as follows: receive steel sheets, when they are received they are color coded, then they are cut by laser or plasma and send to warehouse, the parts should be identified with a permanent marker before they are stored by materials personnel but this is not happened 100% (as the process is not well controlled), when the parts are needed at fabrication they go out from warehouse most of the times in Kits and there is a "pick list" - papers with the list of parts and drawings in the kit- with the parts; all the parts goes to cleaning because they are stored outside and depending of the time stored they got rust, so during cleaning any identification is removed, then the parts "should be marked" again with the part number and "pick list" is placed again on the parts, then the parts are moved to welding or machining depending of the work order. The issue that I'm seen is that the process of marking manually the parts is not being 100% effective, so it is common to see on floor kits the parts where the single parts are not identified. If pick list is on the kit you can check it which part is against the paper but some times the pick list is not available neither. In most of the cases Production personnel is familiar but for any one unfamiliar it is difficult to know the parts. This issue has been addressed during an internal audit. So I'm looking for advice or information about how are you handling identification in a similar fabrication process.
Thanks for your time.
AC
The flow of process is as follows: receive steel sheets, when they are received they are color coded, then they are cut by laser or plasma and send to warehouse, the parts should be identified with a permanent marker before they are stored by materials personnel but this is not happened 100% (as the process is not well controlled), when the parts are needed at fabrication they go out from warehouse most of the times in Kits and there is a "pick list" - papers with the list of parts and drawings in the kit- with the parts; all the parts goes to cleaning because they are stored outside and depending of the time stored they got rust, so during cleaning any identification is removed, then the parts "should be marked" again with the part number and "pick list" is placed again on the parts, then the parts are moved to welding or machining depending of the work order. The issue that I'm seen is that the process of marking manually the parts is not being 100% effective, so it is common to see on floor kits the parts where the single parts are not identified. If pick list is on the kit you can check it which part is against the paper but some times the pick list is not available neither. In most of the cases Production personnel is familiar but for any one unfamiliar it is difficult to know the parts. This issue has been addressed during an internal audit. So I'm looking for advice or information about how are you handling identification in a similar fabrication process.
Thanks for your time.
AC