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Any ideas on best practices for identifying raw material, specifically sheet metals of various gauges and chemical compositions?
Currently we employ a tagging system to all materials, including sheets. It's a little lax at the moment. Identification consists of using tags, magic marker, vendor tags, general rack or skid labels, or the popular- 'just knowing it's 5051 aluminum if it's not tagged and it's leaning against this wall'.
This is in response to a corrective action we have open for material coming up missing for one job and potentially using incorrect material on another. Since it is not definitive what happened with the missing material, I'm not sure exactly what root cause is. I'm leaning towards lack of material identification since we are non-compliant at the moment or failure by operator to verify material prior to running.
Thanks!
Currently we employ a tagging system to all materials, including sheets. It's a little lax at the moment. Identification consists of using tags, magic marker, vendor tags, general rack or skid labels, or the popular- 'just knowing it's 5051 aluminum if it's not tagged and it's leaning against this wall'.
This is in response to a corrective action we have open for material coming up missing for one job and potentially using incorrect material on another. Since it is not definitive what happened with the missing material, I'm not sure exactly what root cause is. I'm leaning towards lack of material identification since we are non-compliant at the moment or failure by operator to verify material prior to running.
Thanks!
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We use similar material, our metal supplier stencils the raw material code onto the pallet, as we have found that tickets attached get lost and colour coding isn't helpful once the pallet is in use. Dedicated areas in a warehouse are fine in principle but don't always work as there will be instances where you won't have space where you need it.