00;00;09;00 – 00;00;35;18
Unknown
Hello, everyone. I’m Kevin Durant, associate editor at Money Machine Shop, and I’ll be your moderator today. The presenters for today’s webinar streamlining tool Crib Management from CMC programing machinery include Paul Van Meter, co-founder of Pro Shop, Andrew Park’s tool crib attendant at Rush Yates Manufacturing Solutions. Todd English, marketing and strategic partnership expert. Also appreciate and Ricky Schrader, CNC program CNC programmer.

00;00;35;18 – 00;01;00;20
Unknown
Also appreciate. The presentation will focus on Pro Shops integration with toolkits with examples from Russia on how it can document tool requirements. Think information about Tony Tan Cam software and otherwise streamline your 20 workflow. If you have questions for our presenters, please use the Q&A box on the right side of your screen. As a reminder, today’s webinar is being recorded and will be available for viewing shortly after today’s session.

00;01;00;25 – 00;01;22;44
Unknown
With that, I’ll turn it over to our presenters. Take it away. Thank you Evan. Appreciate it very much. Welcome, everybody. Great to have you all here. I always love to start webinars and we have a pretty big audience today. If you would put in the chat just where you are joining from, your city, your state or whatever. It’s always great to see such a wide diversity of folks from all over the place.

00;01;22;48 – 00;01;43;36
Unknown
So yeah, I’m Paul Van Meter, one of the co-founders here at Pro Shop and, super, privileged to have this fine group of professionals here talking about how, we have worked together with Roush Yates to really kind of streamline their tool crib and how they go from programing. Thanks for kicking us off in Los Angeles, New Hampshire.

00;01;43;36 – 00;02;08;27
Unknown
Awesome. From programing to the shop floor and trying to make, that process smoother, more digital, more streamlined, and ultimately, you know, keep the spindles turning more often. So, we always like to start our webinars with our mission, we deliver powerful manufacturing software by deeply understanding our clients challenges in order to meaningfully improve their businesses and in turn, their communities.

00;02;08;27 – 00;02;29;16
Unknown
And, I believe, Roush Yates is a great example of that. Obviously, we’re talking about a pretty deep topic today, probably a topic that most ERP companies don’t even begin to talk about. But it’s such a critical aspect of running a precision manufacturing company like Roush, Yates. And I know that as partners over the years. And, Todd, you can attest to this.

00;02;29;21 – 00;02;49;24
Unknown
You guys have grown massively over the last several years. We’ve also grown hand in hand. More jobs, in the community. So it’s just, it’s a good virtuous circle to be a partner with. Just a little thing about the history of pro shop and why people choose us. This picture right here, that’s me in the middle.

00;02;49;29 – 00;03;09;17
Unknown
My partners and I started a machine shop right out of college in 1997. Bought a horse VF four, with a second mortgage, and went on to grow that machine shop for many years and ultimately build the software that ran our business and then ultimately started selling it to other companies when they started seeing it and asking us about it.

00;03;09;22 – 00;03;31;49
Unknown
So people choose us for, you know, in getting rid of the paper out of their shop, which we’re certainly going to talk about combining all their systems into one, which we’re also going to talk about, scheduling and QMS and, better job casting. So, just a few reasons why we really love supporting this industry. And, now let’s get into the agenda for today.

00;03;31;50 – 00;03;54;52
Unknown
We’ll do our intros. We’ll talk a little bit about, rush Rush Yates first just adopting pro shop in the first place. And then get into sort of the sinking of the CAD and the cam and the tooling, and then talk about the impacts of that and set up production and then get into the actual meat potatoes of inventory management and how that works, both the physical and the digital side.

00;03;54;57 – 00;04;18;26
Unknown
Do some Q&A, do a poll, and, we’ll be done. So let’s start. Andrew, welcome. Thank you for joining us. And just tell us a little bit about yourself. Thank you for having me. I run the tool firm for Roush Yates Manufacturing Shop. So I handle, any fixed bring any holders, any, any tools that, enter the shop or leave the shop, everything goes through me.

00;04;18;31 – 00;04;36;23
Unknown
Everything is handled by me. So I make sure that, all the machines have what they need. All the operators have what they need. All the programmers get what they want when they want it. Shipping is a big part of it. So I really control the flow of that. So pro shop is really, really important to me.

00;04;36;28 – 00;05;03;36
Unknown
Awesome. Thank you. And, Ricky, how about yourself? Well, I’ve been, with Ralph Sheets for quite a while now. It’s been about 24 years, and, I’m a programmer, so I handle, doing all our setup sheets, programing the parts, fixture design. I even create tools for our tool system. Just write work instructions and many other things inside of it.

00;05;03;36 – 00;05;21;09
Unknown
So there’s a little bit of everything for me, and I think I. Yeah, you started actually as a machinist. Yeah. 2001 and yes, I did, yes, I did, yeah. Awesome. So you really seen the full spectrum of the entire shop from front to back? And, we don’t have a slide for Todd, but everyone I think knows Todd.

00;05;21;09 – 00;05;46;54
Unknown
Todd, why don’t you introduce yourself and a little bit more about Bruce Engines and Bruce State’s manufacturing solutions? Yeah. Paul, thanks for allowing us to join and I’ll keep my portion pretty sweet. So I think I would start back in the probably the 1990s. And while we moved into manufacturing and machining. So, back in the 1990s, Robert Gates Racing was, known for its cylinder head and power.

00;05;46;54 – 00;06;10;08
Unknown
And Ricky joined us a few years later. But in the 90s, it was a lot of manual machining and hand grinding, and we came up with a set of cylinder heads that added 50 additional horsepower to our engine as well. The sport called all of that. And then we started developing additional cylinder heads for additional teams. And our challenge back in the 90s is we couldn’t have any consistency in.

00;06;10;08 – 00;06;32;10
Unknown
It actually took us three months to come up with a final set of cylinder heads. So we knew that we had to develop a process of manufacture and to be able to machine these cylinder heads in a timely manner, but also have a consistent and final product, says back in the 90s, we started manufacturing cylinder heads for more, teams besides Robert Yates Racing.

00;06;32;10 – 00;07;01;21
Unknown
So that’s really back in the early 90s. We started manufactured components not only for the engines, but also the cars. Quick history. Jack Roush and Robert Yates decided to merge their engine companies, at the end of 2003. In the 2004, today we are the Ford exclude design, developer and build of over 900 high performance engines in the focus of manufacturing to the engines that we produced in racing.

00;07;01;21 – 00;07;24;33
Unknown
We’re always looking for that next competitive advantage, and part of that is people. Part of that is the product that we put out on the racetrack, and part of that is partnerships like Pro shop, where we look to really move our company in the future very quickly. So in 2004 that I mentioned is we are strictly on the NASCAR side where we started with NASCAR engines as the sport has changed.

00;07;24;33 – 00;07;48;02
Unknown
Right. We’re still doing about 900 engines, but the components are not changing. Is often we manufacturing machine about 50% of the items components that go into our engines. But around 2008, we noticed that our volume started to kind of go off a little bit. As of now, sometimes engines are run throughout the entire weekend in multiple usages.

00;07;48;07 – 00;08;16;44
Unknown
So we started really to diversify the business in 2018. Again, at one point, all of our CNC machines was located within the engine facility. Now we are a is not a 100. The ISO 1345 company, two manufacturing facilities that, have about 135,000ft² over 70. Some cc machines and only 10% today of our business goes back to our engine shop.

00;08;16;44 – 00;08;37;11
Unknown
So again, we’ve had a pretty, huge amount of growth into some other areas, such as, medical, such as defense, such as space and some other categories. And again, it’s been important for us to continue to look for ways to help us scale the business, grow the business in Pro Shop has been a huge part of that back in the early 90s.

00;08;37;11 – 00;09;05;09
Unknown
And I’m to say early 2000 and even 2010, Ricky could attest to this. It was really we were notorious for overnighting machine tools in and oh yeah, cutting tools. We just didn’t have the infrastructure in place to support the sport and also manufacturers. So the big push for us is when we diversified the business into other segments, we knew that we need to look out, find the right, pro shop that help us assist moving forward.

00;09;05;09 – 00;09;23;14
Unknown
So, Paul, that’s, a quick short story about Ralph’s eats engines. And if there’s any questions, I’ll stay on and try to answer them. Thank you so much, Todd, I appreciate that. Yeah. It is, as you see from this picture, which is what Roush Yates looks like all the time, I don’t think they clean up when I visit or when they take pictures.

00;09;23;19 – 00;09;44;30
Unknown
It is the highlight of my year when I get to go visit their facility. So it’s a huge honor to be, partnered with such an incredible legacy like these guys. So all right, let’s get into, sort of what first happened when adopting pro shop. And Ricky, I’d love to, maybe lean on you the most since you were there from way before.

00;09;44;35 – 00;10;01;57
Unknown
You know, Todd just alluded to a couple of things that have improved, but, yeah, I mean, people can read the bullets here, but can you just kind of give a little bit more voiceover as to what that was like to go paperless, really build a digital system that supported the shop and, and, what that was like a scan.

00;10;02;02 – 00;10;19;30
Unknown
For us, it was, it was, big on taking at first because we had so much, just paper that we had in our we have filing cabinets everywhere with our part records and stuff. So it just took a little bit of time to get it into, pro shop and get all our part records created and stuff.

00;10;19;30 – 00;10;39;21
Unknown
But once we did, it made it a lot better because now we have, PCs at all our machines. So the, the guys on the floor can just access it from there. And they can see your set up sheets are our documentation if there’s any special instructions for the job. We have all our just, just everything they would need there.

00;10;39;21 – 00;11;01;08
Unknown
We have pictures of the jobs fixtures. We have all their, offices. We were just able to put all that in one spot for the guys to be able to find it, locate it, versus when I was on the floor. You know, I had to go here to get this piece of information if I needed it. Or you might be setting it up on multiple machines, and one guy has all the information.

00;11;01;09 – 00;11;23;08
Unknown
You had to go get it from him. And the nice thing about Pro Shop two is we could be setting up multiple jobs in multiple areas in our shop, and all the guys have access to the exact same information, so there’s less room for error. And, it keeps it, you know, nice and streamlined for them too. They don’t have to go around and find out where everything’s located.

00;11;23;08 – 00;11;47;37
Unknown
And and they already know it’s right there in front of them. While they’re setting up the machine. Fantastic. Yeah. And you guys have done a really great job of, especially tying in the tools to that. Obviously, as we all know, the tool crib is kind of the backbone. You know, you’re not going to machine anything without those tools being there, the right ones in the right holders at the right times, which makes, what Andrew does.

00;11;47;37 – 00;12;09;09
Unknown
So, essentially critical. So let’s, just I just want to share this this was actually snapshot in from a virtual tour that, that Roush Yates has on their website or had at one point. So, yeah, there’s you can see the, you know, the PC right there at the workstation I love they got their logo all over all these workstations.

00;12;09;09 – 00;12;30;33
Unknown
Again, it’s such a beautiful facility. But, really? Yeah. This is this is the central place where those machinists are getting all their work instructions. Everything relevant to, to what they do now, moving back over into, like, the tool crib side. Here’s a snapshot. This was straight out of your system. Thanks for sending that.

00;12;30;38 – 00;13;01;27
Unknown
Let’s just talk a little bit about this. Do you want to also lead this one, Ricky, of kind of what what what you as a programmer are seeing or even entering if you’re creating a new one? And how that ties into the part numbers and the jobs. Yes. For me, on the programing side, where I use this as like if I need to see if we already have a tool, I can just go in to Pro shop and I can search, you know, our say, our email category, for example, see what sizes you know, if I’m looking for just in this case one inch with, you know, say a radius or something,

00;13;01;27 – 00;13;18;37
Unknown
I can go into the search field and put that in and see what we have available, what the length of cut we need. And I’m also, as the programmer, responsible as I’m doing a new, a new project, and I need a tool. I add it to pro shop so that it’s in our system because I know what I need.

00;13;18;37 – 00;13;37;41
Unknown
So I create it, put the vendor information in there, and then Andrew would take it and give it a location and fill in all the other stuff and do the ordering of the tools. Awesome. And it’s, of course, really sweet that you guys use Master Cam because this little link right up here. But we’ll get to that in just a second.

00;13;37;41 – 00;14;07;45
Unknown
Here. To be able to export, you know, this geometry. And then, and then generate this list which feeds right back into, the Pro shop tool list for that particular part number. So maybe you can talk about this exact example, the next gen up. Right. I think we’re talking about here. Yes. This is, this is, this is my master cam list that comes out and we use, the CSV tool you guys have and, we, we load, we loaded in Excel and get the categories the way we want.

00;14;07;45 – 00;14;33;54
Unknown
Then we import it into our sequence detail so we don’t have to do a lot of key any. And it just automatically imports it in force. We just have to, you know, get our categories lined up the way we want. We have it set up or we just load it right in and put our tools in there for the the guys in the floor and on the well for basically for Andrew in the tool crib to be able to pull these tools for the guys when they need them for the job.

00;14;33;59 – 00;14;49;12
Unknown
Yeah. And the asset of the tool, having all that information in the sequence data really helps save time in the crib, pulling the tools when you get, so you can see to like that long. And there are like, 30 tools that you have to pull. And that’s how I’m counting the holders. We’re just talking cutting tools.

00;14;49;12 – 00;15;14;07
Unknown
That saves time. Having all the locations right there and ready can just be printed out, sent to me, sent to the operator, to the set up guy. You know, it really saves time. Awesome. And I’ll point out something that’s maybe not obvious to other folks. This little, breadcrumb here at the top of the screen, you know, this this number here, that’s your internal part number for that next gen up right up 60 is the machining operation we’re talking about.

00;15;14;12 – 00;15;38;36
Unknown
And the sequence detail is the list of tools in each sequence for roughing and finishing and tapping and drilling and the or whatever that and it includes even, you know, tool usage. So, to life can kind of be predicted here as well. And then we’ll jump to the next slide. You obviously use a very large monitor when you use Inshot.

00;15;38;41 – 00;15;56;22
Unknown
But you just want to describe a little bit of what’s here. This is actually really nice for the guys on the floor when they’re, they’re doing setups because it’s an overview of all of the for like that op 60 for the upright. It gives you everything in one time. So you can see your fix during your sequence detail.

00;15;56;22 – 00;16;17;27
Unknown
Your tool sheets or any other written information we may have there. They can access any of it by just, you know, clicking on it from this is set up overview. It gives it gives them like basically a snapshot of all of it at one time instead of going into each individual, field. And when you’re in the actual app.

00;16;17;32 – 00;16;47;31
Unknown
Awesome. Yeah. And yeah. So again, this screenshot is such a big, big screenshot. But yeah, this this what we’re seeing here are what we call, operation components that can be added or removed from an operation as needed. So this top one here is the work holding one. Then we have sequence detail. We have what we call written description which is often like set up notes and then run description which is often like the the step by step, you know, a sequence of what you need to do when you’re running that part.

00;16;47;36 – 00;17;09;04
Unknown
And I’ll just point out here what you guys have linked in, and these are presumably straight out of Master Cam, some of these and then others are just some sheets that you guys put together. No, this is all straight out of Master Cam. So this would be our tool, this right here, and then our front pages, you know, just got our cover on it and basically a little bit of part information for the guys.

00;17;09;09 – 00;17;31;27
Unknown
And you know, some work instructions. This is just like a general shot and gives them all the lists and what it’s doing in the operation. So they can look at this list and see what the tools doing on the part. Awesome. And, you know, Todd, of course, mentioned in the intro about, you guys being the, you know, the the, the manufacturer of Ford engines for NASCAR.

00;17;31;27 – 00;17;48;19
Unknown
But I just, I love this part. This particular part so much is is so cool, you know, that just, you know, in the last few years, you guys also got the contract to make the uprights for pretty much every car and is in the series. Is that right? That is correct. This this part here is on every car every Sunday.

00;17;48;19 – 00;18;12;15
Unknown
So, it’s on every make and out there it’s not just on the Fords. So it’s just for the in, next, next gen car. So we do all the uprights, which is four corners. So we make four different versions of, well, three other versions of this part that you see on the screen form. So we get to have have our parts on every car out there every Sunday, which is pretty cool.

00;18;12;20 – 00;18;32;51
Unknown
That is very cool. Yeah. For race fans in the audience, it’s just, super fun to to know those things. And you guys make a number of other components that go into those, like, yes, we do. Yes we do. Awesome. All right. So here’s just an example of I mentioned earlier the work holding component that was added into this, this part number.

00;18;32;55 – 00;18;51;54
Unknown
So yeah, just obviously this is the fixture you guys are using. So just take a picture up and this is obviously a screenshot, right? It’s not an actual photograph, but you have clients that do both, you know, screenshots or an actual photo, from a tablet or something and uploaded right here. So everyone knows exactly what it looks like.

00;18;51;59 – 00;19;15;23
Unknown
Any other things to add to that? Either of you? For for me, I just, I really enjoy giving the guys on the floor this this screenshot because, you know, when I used to do it, you know, if you needed to know what a fixture look like, a lot of times, if you didn’t know, if you never set the job up, you can spend a long time looking for a fixture.

00;19;15;27 – 00;19;32;51
Unknown
And we didn’t really have the kind of identification on it as we do like this fixture in this picture. So, you know, you never knew what you’re looking for other than, hey, it’s you know, it’s this fixture there was over there. And nice thing here is this fixture doesn’t have the location because it stays on the machine.

00;19;32;56 – 00;19;49;03
Unknown
Some of our others we have, we have racking and shelving where we keep it, and it shows the location of the fixtures. Andrew can speak a little bit more on that, but the guys can go locate it. Yeah, we keep we keep it, in their own areas, just like we do like cutting tools with their own area.

00;19;49;03 – 00;20;07;08
Unknown
So when they get these sheets, they’ll have a location. Everything has a place. And so they go straight to that place and then pull the sheet. And then we can change that data, correctly, reflect quantity. So if for some reason in the future they look back on it, they can see how much we currently have in the fixture cabinet.

00;20;07;13 – 00;20;25;59
Unknown
Nice. And then of course this shows your zero point for your program. Right. So they have that bit of context as well. Yes. Yeah definitely. I mean these are all things that you know, for any of you out there that, that are involved in this process, you know, that all that information, you know, and humans are visual, visual creatures.

00;20;25;59 – 00;20;50;39
Unknown
So being able to see the picture, know where to find it, know where the zero point is, you know, have the tools. It just all helps accelerate, you know, and reduce setup times. And then you add on top of that the kidding. So you know Andrew’s getting all that ready in advance. They’re not running around looking for things, you know, really kind of ends up with, you know, and I don’t know about what you guys, we haven’t even talked about this.

00;20;50;39 – 00;21;15;46
Unknown
But when we talk to our customers and even do sort of interviews and testimonials and we ask them what kind of setup production you see, honestly, the most common answer we get is about 50%. Right. And that’s not, you know, that’s not a specific like thing that pro shop is, is doing besides guiding them to the best practice of having it all documented, totally available to the machinist.

00;21;15;51 – 00;21;33;34
Unknown
And, you know, reducing that, that ambiguity, you know, ambiguity, make sure everyone’s on the same page. So, so, Ricky, can you, maybe speak to a little bit of that and maybe contrast it to how you guys used to do it years before? Yes. In the past, like I said, we had a filing cabinet.

00;21;33;34 – 00;22;01;02
Unknown
You had to go pull the stuff, the information, go find the fixture, and that would be in a completely different area. And that’s if you had enough information to do it. And then your tool list, you’d have to take your, your paper then. And you’d had to just go individually, find a tool. Whereas like with our system now with our shop, we can actually just go to one computer, pull all that information up, we can pull our tooling.

00;22;01;02 – 00;22;35;01
Unknown
We can we can send that to Andrew, have him pull it, order, do whatever we need, can find the fixture with the friction. Looks like the location of it. We can even, see you got inspection gauges up there. And for even for optics, it even specifies what gauging they check certain features with to so they can actually go ahead and get a gauge and kit for that to pull to the machine and go ahead and set it up so it it really cuts down on setup time a lot because it is centralizes it to one place where they can go get all the information at one time.

00;22;35;06 – 00;22;52;43
Unknown
And it’s, you know, it’s it’s right there. They don’t have to go multiple places in the shop. They don’t have to go in to QA room to look for this or that. They can get all that information just from an inside a pro shop. And importantly, they don’t have to climb those stairs and come bother you at your desk.

00;22;52;46 – 00;23;11;39
Unknown
Okay. Yes, yes, it has definitely helped with that being able to for me to put as much information as they would like to have or need in there and it cuts down on the amount of distractions I get get there in a day, which allows me to keep programing and doing what they they want me to do the most.

00;23;11;39 – 00;23;43;56
Unknown
So. Well, you know, I’m, I’m actually glad this came up because I think I’d love to have you, speak to this sometimes, you know, when we’re when we’re doing our sales demos and stuff for people and they see, you know, what’s possible with the documentation, they’re like, oh, we don’t have time to document it like that. Like we just need to get to make and ships and, you know, and I think it’s a funny statement because, it’s you will actually cut way more chips way more often if you spend a little bit more time and document it thoroughly.

00;23;44;01 – 00;24;05;25
Unknown
And just people can work more efficiently, have more confidence in their setups. Not gonna bother you 20 times a day. So, yeah. What would you say about someone that says they don’t have time to document more? Oh, for me, I love I love the fact that I can give them more documentation because, you know, I’m going back to when I was on the floor.

00;24;05;30 – 00;24;23;41
Unknown
There’s so many times where I wish I would have just had more information, and I had to always like, say, go seek it out, whether that was the programmer or the lead set up guy at the time. So for me, you know, I’m, I’m open to him to come in, let me know what they need. I’ll provide as much information as I can.

00;24;23;45 – 00;24;42;48
Unknown
And now, for me, I’ve done it so much. It’s kind of second nature. I just do it up front, you know? I’ll put all this stuff in there form, you know, and I’ll just tell the tell them if they need anything else, let me know. It’s easy to add, you know, I can add a, a picture, I can add a word document, I can add anything they can access.

00;24;42;53 – 00;25;05;04
Unknown
So it’s it’s really nice. That’s awesome. And let’s talk a little bit about machine as being a participant in that process. Because I don’t know if you guys use the process development feature or, you know, ways that they can contribute to problems that are having and things that they want to suggest as troubleshooting or improvements to the process, can you speak to that a little bit?

00;25;05;09 – 00;25;21;06
Unknown
We have used the actual written description section before where we allow them to key and stuff for us to see if there’s, let’s just say they had to use a different clamp on a job than what I had called out. They can put in the notes there. They had to use this plan for this reason and all.

00;25;21;06 – 00;25;39;30
Unknown
And then, we can we can check that and see that information. And it also stays with the job so that next time somebody else can see it, we haven’t really used the, process development as much yet. We’ve we’re trying to figure out how to implement that because being that we’ve done parts for a long time, we do have a lot of legacy parts.

00;25;39;42 – 00;26;01;03
Unknown
So for us, we just been trying to work through that. Got it. Okay. And I add, before we move on in the next slide, I do want to talk about this concept that we, we really espouse, that a machinist should be able to walk up to their machine for a job they’re about to set up and have everything they need to get that that part off.

00;26;01;03 – 00;26;21;53
Unknown
They’re off the machine, you know, first, first article piece and hand without ever having to leave the machine and go walk and find things and get information. Do you guys kind of push for that or believe that that is a possible thing? Are you doing that? Or it’s documented well enough? They can just really focus on getting that first part off without having to leave.

00;26;21;58 – 00;26;52;01
Unknown
Yes. For most jobs, yes, we do have that. There are some special circumstances where, you know, the gauging, you know, it doesn’t sure. Intel for that and sharing some of the gauging, but we’re getting much, much better at that now and making that a part of it so the, the guy can set it up, run his first piece, get his, you know, all of his his RFCs done and everything documented and get get up and going faster than much faster than we used to for sure.

00;26;52;05 – 00;27;13;32
Unknown
That’s awesome. All right. And before we move on, can we just take a moment and talk about the machines you guys have? You know, this is, I think, a three, three oz to sell. Right behind it. You can’t see there’s maquinas like, you guys invest in some seriously nice machines. Yeah. So we got, Yeah. The users are really, really nice.

00;27;13;37 – 00;27;42;50
Unknown
Those both have, pallet systems on them. And thank each, hold, over 300 tools, but there’s some really nice, machines. And we also have, some machine odors. We have, robotic cell with, A60 ones in it that has six machines in that cell. Then we have an assortment of other maquinas and houses and, a bunch of lathes, some, Swiss Sagami.

00;27;42;50 – 00;28;11;37
Unknown
We got a little bit a little bit of everything when it comes to machines, but must be nice to work on such an environment with beautiful machines in a beautiful facility. It is. It is a it’s a privilege. Yeah. Very cool. All right. Let’s dig into a little bit more nuance on the tool inventory and tool crib. So, Andrew, just grab this from, part of the filming we actually did with, with, Tony Gunn, a few months back.

00;28;11;37 – 00;28;35;34
Unknown
But that’s that’s up to your holder rack. And then why don’t you talk a little bit about the organization system for where you store your tools? So, like, as I was saying before, everything has to that a place. So we’ve really we’ve tried to like simplify it. So our cabinet number and then it follows by row, drawer number and then row letter.

00;28;35;34 – 00;28;56;11
Unknown
So as you can see in this example, it says A31B. And so you would go to the third cabinet and it’s labeled at the top. It kind of cuts out of the top of the drawers, but it says it up at the very top. So it would be cabinet three and then this, this example doesn’t show 2 or 1.

00;28;56;16 – 00;29;21;31
Unknown
Yeah. This is a different screenshot than the drawer we actually are showing. But, when you read down it, you can see the numbers. So J 1681 J 2256 eight 4517 so that’s the idea. If you order went into the first store at the very top of that cabinet and row B and read down the row, you would find 37, 55 and then earlier, that page also reflected the quantity.

00;29;21;31 – 00;29;46;47
Unknown
And so, that, that quantity is reflecting pro shop. You wouldn’t have come all the way down to the crib and check this or five other tools. You know, as long as I’m doing my job correctly. Ricky can just look up from pro shop and find that correct quantity or current or. And so one of the other things that I wanted to ask you about is, which tools you put in, which, slots here.

00;29;46;47 – 00;30;10;04
Unknown
Do you guys try to have dissimilar tools, near each other or so? Most definitely. While we are doing it, we try to separate, as you can see, a lot of a lot of, turning inserts or, and, just the charts below that you’ll find, like our milling inserts. So, especially like older and a lot more use tooling.

00;30;10;04 – 00;30;37;27
Unknown
We’ll try to keep in those together. We’ll try to keep all middles together. Tabs together, drills together. Cool up through drills together. Obviously as we start getting into the, newer drills and or the newer tools. So as we’re ordering tools, I may temporarily put them in a cabinet. Just give them a location so that, you know, Ricky can put it in the sheet and then the operators can reference that, and then later I’ll put them separated with all the other tooling, properly.

00;30;37;27 – 00;30;58;54
Unknown
And this goes the same with fixtures. Fixtures have a location, a fixture cabinet number, row number. And then you can read through the row and find that exact tool number given to it or fixture number. Awesome. And so when you add a brand new tool, let’s say the next tool was 56 instead of 55.

00;30;58;58 – 00;31;25;13
Unknown
Does that going to go right in the slot after 55 in the cabinet, even if it’s a totally dissimilar type of tool? Generally. Now, like I said before, I, we like to keep them separated. So, I try to keep all like, milling and certain, turns. So if the next number is if the next number is the same type, then yes, we, they will fall back behind of each other.

00;31;25;18 – 00;31;47;47
Unknown
I personally will try to separate them. Sometimes there’s confusion when numbers get close and everyone’s seen and they make mistakes. There’s a lot of operators. But, Yeah, but besides, just trying to keep them all together in their proper, tool groups. Got it. Cool. Yeah. And then we’ve talked a couple of times about, you know, just searching the inventory.

00;31;47;52 – 00;32;14;31
Unknown
And this would be an example of, but, you know, of a tool list where you can, you know, filter by cut diameter and length and color radius and, you know. Yeah, that that’s very important. And the earlier image, again, reference the quantity. Well, there’s a lot of information. Ricky was saying, you know, trying to find that tool that has that, proper, length of cut or, you know, cut diameter, the radius on your end mill.

00;32;14;36 – 00;32;34;45
Unknown
So that sounds really helpful. We can use Photoshop to easily search. Sometimes the manual guys will come to me and they need a very specific tool while pro shop with the search query information, we can find that exact tooling. All I mean, all the way down to, like, so every search query being filled to we need this specific diameter.

00;32;34;45 – 00;32;55;38
Unknown
We need this range of length of cut because it, you know, it can fluctuate. And so on and so on. So that really helps the search queries. Awesome. So, curious, Ricky, when, prior to pro shop and prior to this digital system, if you, as a machinist or as a programmer needed a certain tool, how would you even determine whether you had that tool?

00;32;55;52 – 00;33;19;57
Unknown
Oh, if I really wanted to know if we had it, I had to go out to our cabinets at the time, which weren’t labeled or organized, and look through them and see if we had the tool in the drawer, or I just ordered it to make sure I had it one of the other. Usually I would just order to make sure I had it for the job, but, that that’s where we ended up with a lot of duplicate tooling to the amount of programmers we had.

00;33;19;57 – 00;33;42;36
Unknown
But yeah. Wow. There is a ton of Q&A. So we will get to that. We’ll make sure we leave time for that. Yeah. Speaking of duplicate tools, I mean, I, I know for a fact, having talked to hundreds of shops, you can have the issue of at the same time having way too many tools of certain kinds and not nearly enough of the right kinds.

00;33;42;36 – 00;34;08;15
Unknown
Right. And so you mentioned earlier, or maybe Todd did about overnighting tools all the time. Yep. That used to be a thing. Yeah. Do you guys overnight very often these days? Only if there it’s a new project that we don’t have a tool in the building, which is hard for us now because we have quite a big, library, as Andrew can attest, for we we have quite a bit of tooling in our system.

00;34;08;19 – 00;34;32;18
Unknown
So, yeah, we got pretty much most of all of that covered. Now that’s good. Yeah. So, I know we’ve had clients say that they have, you know, saved. I think one client said they saved, like, 20 grand a year in, expedited shipping charges just on cutting tools alone. Because they, you know, two or 3 or 4 times a week, spending 50, 60, 70 bucks for early Am delivery.

00;34;32;23 – 00;34;53;06
Unknown
And that’s not even the expensive of the expensive part. Is your machine sitting idle? Well, you don’t have a tool, so. Yeah, that’s that’s why we’re such strong believers. And this is such a critical part of, of a precision machining operation because, yeah, nothing can happen. This isn’t running smoothly. Let’s talk about the vendors and approved vendors a little bit, Andrew.

00;34;53;06 – 00;35;13;56
Unknown
So do you want to talk a little bit about how you handle that? So, this information, I will, I will compliment it’s, very communicative between sections of pro shop. So that information up there, as you can see, filled in with the EDP, the lead time. How long? Generally, how long it’ll get here. Current cost.

00;35;13;56 – 00;35;32;11
Unknown
That is usually updated by me with a programmer who sets up the tooling, the approved brand, and then, most importantly, the approved vendor. The approved vendor is where a lot of the data will communicate into our purchase orders. So, I actually see, in the Q&A, someone asked, how do I know the replenish tooling?

00;35;32;11 – 00;36;01;10
Unknown
So below that, red box, you’ll see like, quantity. And then and then you’ll see like safety stock. So I reflect these numbers and, I take a step forward Pro shops very helpful. But I also check physical quantity in the bin. And then I reflect that to our current safety number. And then with the vendor information I’ll input, but a quarter of the date, very little of the data that you see on into a, a purchase order.

00;36;01;10 – 00;36;21;24
Unknown
So the total number, our, our work order associated with it, and then like the, the Dubai date. So for like shipping information and it’ll translate course description, all of that. I don’t have to sit there and type out 50 different tools that we have to order for a job set up. I can just get the base information and the pro shop will integrate all that.

00;36;21;24 – 00;36;42;15
Unknown
As long as I keep that vendor, purchasing information of the tool accurate and up to date. Awesome. Yeah. And one thing I’ll point out, which is not obvious on this screen, but this, quantity verified field, or attribute, was something that we came up with years ago at our shop and we would have the same situation.

00;36;42;15 – 00;37;07;31
Unknown
They would say we had, you know, three tools on the shelf, and then we go to look and there’d only be one. So, you know, it’s like, well, when, you know, if it says three, how how long ago was that verified? So, it’s a pretty cool and easy system. You can just basically click the click the little green button, and it, so if you’re there looking in the bin, and you’re like, yep, I got three here.

00;37;07;36 – 00;37;28;15
Unknown
You can just click that box or click that little green button and it will do a time date user stamp. You know, recording that time. Right. Right there instantly. So if someone in the future, you know, let’s say a week from now is saying, you know, what do we do? We actually have these. And you can see it was verified by Andrew, you know, two days ago, they’re like, yeah, pretty likely those are real.

00;37;28;15 – 00;37;49;04
Unknown
But if it was like only verified like three months ago or six months ago, like, yeah, just better go check on that. So it was an easy way to provide a little bit more information with almost zero effort. So let’s move into, this is, an on order breakdown, which actually is, right. This link right at the top here.

00;37;49;06 – 00;38;08;05
Unknown
So if you ever want to see, you know, what tools you have on order with what vendors and when they’re coming in. And I think this kind of talks to it feeds so much information. In here that, maybe just you can talk a little bit about, about how this works, you know. Yeah. And I want to make I was earlier I was mentioning the search query.

00;38;08;05 – 00;38;41;06
Unknown
So like, at the bottom, you can see some of the empty boxes. It would have that same format, would search. And so that information is just, very important. But getting on the matter of fact of like on order breakdown, when we’re, I’m dealing with so many tools, I can’t remember all of them. And so when someone comes to me like, hey, so we broke two of these tools and, we need more and, well, I need to know, you know, what purchase order that was tied to when the due to a doc date is how many or, the work order is attached to so I can figure out the

00;38;41;06 – 00;39;07;20
Unknown
program or to, let know, like, hey, this, you know, do we need to find an alternative? What can we do? Because we we don’t want a machine to sit, you know, by no means. So the on order breakdown is really helpful with, just keeping that information at my fingertips. Yeah. Nice. And obviously the fact that it’s, that the work orders are tied to it means that the cost is going to be associated with it for job costing purposes.

00;39;07;20 – 00;39;29;29
Unknown
So that’s a pretty critical part of that too. And then just jump into this one, the retire tool. So when you want to, you know, you break a tool or you wear it out and you want to just decrement it from the inventory, this is obviously the place where you can do that. You can do both retiring one or more tools at once, or you can actually just do an update if you need to verify that.

00;39;29;29 – 00;39;54;31
Unknown
Yep. I actually have three of these in this bin right now. And that’ll push back to the to the database. So any other context on how you use that one. Andrew. No, I mean, that is pretty straightforward. I daily look at that retired tool form. I mean, people constantly bringing in or taking out tools. So if they’re just taking that one, it’s simple to just hit retire tool and it you know, it tells me it changed the quantity to this.

00;39;54;36 – 00;40;18;54
Unknown
And then some kinds of, you know, multiple have been taken. I can just enter the number and update quantity. They’ve been very helpful. Pretty straightforward. Very good. We’re getting to the end and hopefully given lots of time for all the Q&A that’s coming in here. Evan get ready. There’s a lot of them, as you see. So, maybe can I’ll let you, Ricky, talk about this.

00;40;18;56 – 00;40;44;04
Unknown
I mean, again, seeing especially from what you guys used to do, these are pretty common results that, you know, our, our clients get when they really dial in that tool management. But yeah, just any final words and thoughts on this? Yeah. It definitely, improves all these things. It definitely makes for faster setups. And if you’re doing any faster set ups, you got more spindle up time.

00;40;44;08 – 00;41;18;34
Unknown
And to the, point we touched on earlier, being able to see what’s in stock or not or keeping our inventories up. So we have tooling on hand and we’re not buying too much. We’re not have you know, we don’t have empty bin. So we have what we need. So it helps keeps the spindles running too. And it definitely shortens our lead times because for doing faster setups we’re getting to the next job much sooner and which you know equates into profitability for us because it allows us to do more jobs and, it, it frees up capacity for us on our machines.

00;41;18;39 – 00;41;38;15
Unknown
And, the, the information is it’s nice to be able to just walk up to any PC all to log in to pro shop and see what we have on hand, what’s available, you know, if we have it or if we need it. And being able to, communicate with one another through that way is, is really nice.

00;41;38;15 – 00;41;58;06
Unknown
So it is definitely, good for all these things for sure on that real time information piece. I imagine this has happened because it happens all the time in shops. You know, you program a specific tool. For some reason that tool isn’t ideal and you can decide to to update it to a different tool ID number or something.

00;41;58;10 – 00;42;18;34
Unknown
Then there’s just one place to change that in the part level. And then all future work orders automatically get updated so that, that, that, that a situation that happens sometimes. Yes, we do do that from time to time. And we have tool and like I said, we have to change some things or go in and update, you know, a prefer really anything to do with the part.

00;42;18;34 – 00;42;35;15
Unknown
And you can update it real time updates, all your work orders that you have out there that are current. So that is really nice for that feature. Yeah that’s true. It’ll push to yeah, active jobs that are already out on the floor rather than chasing down a bunch of travelers. Yep. And swapping out a Google sheet. Yeah. In paper.

00;42;35;30 – 00;42;56;11
Unknown
Yeah. Awesome. I just wanted to share this. This is, the Roush Yates partnership, with, Mitsubishi materials on, you know, on that tool page, obviously a great partner for cutting tools. There’s a lot of iconic brands here. We’re feeling pretty lucky to be a part of it. So, let’s get to that Q&A, because I know there’s a lot of it here.

00;42;56;16 – 00;43;16;43
Unknown
So, Evan, do you want to, kick us off there? Yeah. Thanks, Paul. Once again, if anyone has any questions, please use the Q&A box on the right side of your screen. We have quite a few already, but we are going to get to as many as we can. First off, how does a machinist on second shift get their tools?

00;43;16;48 – 00;43;35;39
Unknown
So it’s the same process for, every machinist, whether I am present or am I am not present. We have. So, they can go in the pro shop and retire, tools. But we also have a principle, list at the tool crib. So, it’s really, two steps, just in case. I can verify.

00;43;35;39 – 00;43;54;40
Unknown
I go in behind them and verify, but pro shop keeps up all the data. I mean, everything works out as long as there’s no mistakes being made. Sure. And then when you were getting all of this implemented, did you have machinists who pushed back on getting rid of paper travelers? And if you did, how did you handle it?

00;43;54;44 – 00;44;13;12
Unknown
Maybe that’s for you, I think. No, not really, because like I said, we were actually putting it all in one area where they could access it. At first it was like I said, you know, it was just a learning curve and getting we had so much legacy work getting moved into it. So we were kind of working both ways.

00;44;13;12 – 00;44;39;09
Unknown
And the ones that were using it really wanted us to hurry up and get all the stuff into it. But no, we didn’t really get any pushback much at all. Sure. And then how much the setups get reduced by having this digital data at the fingertips of your machinists? It’s hard to put a exact percentage on it, but I’d say at least I would say 30% for sure.

00;44;39;13 – 00;45;06;34
Unknown
Maybe for depending on the complexity of the job, I can confirm this, especially when, like, moving into, like, inventory of, like, holders and then of quarters to be able to just location and, straight to building the tool. Yeah. 30% is a very generous amount. Sure. Okay. And then is the tooling on the bill of materials or routing and if it’s on the routing, is there a process known on the routing?

00;45;06;39 – 00;45;30;42
Unknown
It’s the tooling inventory management in pro shop or some kind of a vendor kiosk? The tooling inventory is managed and, and pro shop. I do not exactly know how to answer personally. The I can’t answer the first part of that. Probably. So the, pro shop has a specific tooling bill of materials. It’s different than the regular bill of materials of a job.

00;45;30;47 – 00;45;53;01
Unknown
Where you might have inserts or pins or other things that are actually going to end up shipping with the product. So, yeah, it’s it’s own entire separate list. That’s the sequence detail, you know, that we talked about. That’s basically the list of all the tools that are needed, for any part number. And it’s associated with the operations, the operation number of a part number, which again flows to the work order.

00;45;53;12 – 00;46;14;37
Unknown
And that’s critical that it ties to an operation, because if you use multiple routing ops where you could maybe make this part on a vertical, or you could make it on a five axis instead. If you change, you know, you can have different tool lists for different operations. And so when you what we do call finalize a work order, maybe you’re going to put it on the five axis this time.

00;46;14;41 – 00;46;22;46
Unknown
It’ll have the appropriate tool list for that set of machines as opposed to a different set of machines.

00;46;22;51 – 00;46;46;33
Unknown
Sure. And then is there any way to make, like, how do you make a CSV for master cam? So for me, actually, we, we export our tools out of Master Cam. We launch it into Excel, and that’s we create it from Excel.

00;46;46;38 – 00;47;20;14
Unknown
So there’s, there’s an I’ll just add it add to that. There’s another option which, does require a little bit of work, on your post processor. But Pro Shop has the ability to import directly from parsing a G-code file. So if you, you know, if you program in a master cam and, you know, create that G-code file, and it has the right tool notes with the Pro shop tool ID numbers and in, in that, you know, in your post processor that can pro shop can you can actually load the G-code into pro shop, it can read those notes and parse it out and create that sequence detail as well.

00;47;20;14 – 00;47;32;18
Unknown
So that is a that is a function that some of our customers use as opposed to doing CSV. But both of them can result in uploading that to a list without having to type it all in manually.

00;47;32;23 – 00;48;04;28
Unknown
Sure. Okay. And then, Ricky, Andrew, are you able to, answer like, what is the, the value added ratio on some of the jobs you produce? I, I really can’t add a value because I don’t, I don’t really know all our, value of our our parts. Right now that we run, so it’s hard for me to give, an exact cost there, other than just what I feel like it improves it a percentage wise, I don’t yeah, we’re much into the financials.

00;48;04;33 – 00;48;33;53
Unknown
So we wouldn’t have the information to to, you know, answer that to fully. Sure. No worries. And then for non profit fixtures which don’t stay on the machine is the fixture quantity on hand managed from pro shop as to like the inventory location. So yes essentially yes. Even if it’s not uncommon, even if it’s, really used like, like, just a few times it enters our system that way.

00;48;33;53 – 00;48;54;54
Unknown
It goes through the process, you know, the, the, there’s no confusion later down the line of like, oh, well, they said that you need this part. It’s all in pro shop. So even if you’re only going to use it a few times and then later down the line when it’s archive, maybe for a year or so, you can then decide to remove from the system earlier, depending on how the shop sees it.

00;48;54;59 – 00;49;13;56
Unknown
So yeah, I can also add a little bit more color to that. Bob, thanks for the question. Yeah, it’s very easy to make a new fixture ID number. You can do it right from the part level. Just click a button, throw in, you know, the rack or location you’re throwing it in. The picture of course, is optional, but nice.

00;49;14;01 – 00;49;48;44
Unknown
And then there is a process, within pro shop where if, if a work order, if, if a fixture hasn’t been called on to a work order, to be used in, I think, six months, there’s a query that will get sent to, into the messaging system that says, hey, these are fixtures that you might want to consider archiving, you know, taking them out of active storage, putting it into an area, you know, that’s maybe a little further away, because we all know that fixture storage area can get pretty high rent, you know, pretty, pretty critical that you don’t have a lot of old junk in there.

00;49;48;49 – 00;50;04;46
Unknown
So it can prompt you proactively to say, hey, can you move these to archive? But they can hang out there for maybe another six months or a year before you decide if you’re trashing them or pulling them back active, if they’re going to come back as an active part number.

00;50;04;51 – 00;50;32;39
Unknown
Sure. And then, we have another question. Can you mass edit to a locations if a new style tool needs to be sorted with like items, assuming that the that the drawers are full. Yes. You can, this is, really just pulling the, the list. So again search query. It’s best friend for finding stuff so you can get all the search queries for all the tooling that you need, export it out into a CSV and then, pretty much change that data and import it back in and it’ll overwrite the data.

00;50;32;43 – 00;51;07;00
Unknown
A very simple process. Well, yeah, we’ve done it before. We’ve done it for a lot of tooling, and it’s done it really quickly. I do it’s a great question, Mike. And I do want to also give a slightly different perspective, which is different the way the Roush Roush Yates does it, but nonetheless, when when you have your, you know, your, your, your shelving or your storage racks, your storage bins and drawers, we all know that if you try to, you know, keep like tools together like half inch and mils, for example, or, you know, 3/8 tabs.

00;51;07;04 – 00;51;32;20
Unknown
That you have, you know, a limited amount of physical storage in those areas. And let’s say you have 20 spots and all of a sudden you have your 21st tool that you need, rather than trying to shift everything down and make room for that. What we always did at our shop and what we kind of our proponents of, is that when a new tool ID number gets added, it just gets added to the next spot in your, in your, in your, you know, in your physical inventory.

00;51;32;35 – 00;51;52;24
Unknown
So it doesn’t matter what the tool is. And actually we think there’s actually some benefits for having non like tools next to each other as opposed to combining them. You know challenge user as an example. You know, you have your your 495 your five, you know, half inch your 501, roamers all next to each other.

00;51;52;29 – 00;52;16;03
Unknown
It’s easy to misplace them and put them in the wrong drawer because they’re so similar looking. So the chances of pulling out the wrong tool because it’s right next to one that looks almost identical, is higher when they’re all combined. And so if you, you know, forget about, you know, trying to put common tools together and just go sort of next in, you know, next new tool goes into the next spot that eliminates that problem.

00;52;16;03 – 00;52;32;00
Unknown
Plus you never outgrow your tool storage in terms of keeping them together so you never have to redo them or update locations. So that’s just one one approach that we like to take and it’s quite scalable. You really never have to go back and do things over again.

00;52;32;05 – 00;52;54;30
Unknown
Okay. And then how do you all handle used tooling like, is it just sent back to something Pro shop? Does it get reground first and then it does it return to the same kind of tool number? So, yes or no? It’s, same number with an additive, like you used symbol at the end or, nomenclature for used tooling.

00;52;54;30 – 00;53;13;53
Unknown
So that way we know that this is if you looked into the search query, you would find that exact same tool number for the tool. But then there would be the, the you identification for you use tooling that way. And, and we keep it kind of stylized different. So that way it doesn’t mess up with keeping track of like inventory.

00;53;13;53 – 00;53;40;00
Unknown
Call it like how much we have in cost of inventory. So we negate all that information and we just keep our quantity of used tooling after it’s been verified. We don’t give out use tooling for, parts. It’s like six string. And, if you actually. Yeah, really, it’s just for fixing. But we need to have those use tooling because we’re saving money using that sort of a brand new windmill, that we could be using to make a brand new high quality parts.

00;53;40;05 – 00;54;10;43
Unknown
And we will send them out for free grinds and then return them to the that use tooling section of the pro shop. I was talking about. I can add another little bit of color to that too. In our shop, if we reground something and it became a different size, that became a new tool ID number. So if we had a, you know, a three quarter inch, you know, end mill, that was a, you know, $100 tool and we could re grind it to, you know, a 740 tool that would just come in as a it is a completely brand new tool number.

00;54;10;43 – 00;54;31;25
Unknown
So it would be retired as the three quarter and come in as the new tool. And then as far as regular tools, we did actually reuse tools, for parts if they were in really excellent shape and that would get inspected, you know, when the job was being broken down and we would just put it in an a round plastic sleeve as opposed to the original packaging that it came in.

00;54;31;29 – 00;54;49;39
Unknown
And, so, you know, it was sort of us up to the tool crib attendant and the machinist to decide, like the part number there about to set up the tools for, like the tolerances and the feet and the surface finishes, like, is it okay to put a use tool in the still in great shape, or do we need a definitely a brand new tool every time.

00;54;49;39 – 00;55;10;48
Unknown
So, so yeah, it’s a great way to, a lot like our sweater detail. A lot like. All right. Yeah, yeah. But yeah. Great questions. Keep them coming. Yeah. So beyond cutting tool life, can pro shop store other kinds of applications, specific cutting data and if so, like what kinds of data.

00;55;10;53 – 00;55;28;31
Unknown
I can answer to this one a little bit for us. Like a lot. Andrew King has seen it. Like for when I create a tool, I’ll go into the tool, page, which you can’t see it in this picture, but just a little bit below there’s a tab where you can attach stuff. Well, we got a couple resources there.

00;55;28;35 – 00;55;48;28
Unknown
We’ll attach like feeds and speeds. If it’s got like a CAD file or print or anything that we can load in from online, we can we can store there for, you know, the next programmer or whoever, it’s going to look at it. They can access that without having to go to the website again, pull that information in.

00;55;48;33 – 00;56;16;19
Unknown
So we do that to help each other out in the programing side here. So we’ll put whatever information there that can help the next online. So like says feeds and speeds the CAD file. If, if it has a CAD file in any prints if it’s a custom tool, whatever it may be. And I’ll add as well in this sort of cutting attribute section, these attributes will change based on the tool type.

00;56;16;24 – 00;56;38;37
Unknown
So if you have like a turning insert instead of an end mill instead of number of flutes, it might have, you know, tip radius or other things that would that would be relevant to that type of tool. So that’s also helpful to have in there for searching. Sure. And then do you use the tooling module to manage your Swiss machine tooling as well?

00;56;38;42 – 00;57;00;22
Unknown
Andrew, Mike can speak more on that. I don’t get to mess with the Swiss much, but pretty much yeah, if it if it gets entered in the system, the process works so well that pretty much everything falls into that process to texturing the tool, tooling in general, featuring tooling and tool holders all fall into this process.

00;57;00;22 – 00;57;21;01
Unknown
So it would have its own data, its own, purchasing information and quantity, all of that, and different, fields. So on the left side you would see like cut diameter and all that stuff. So obviously that can be changed. The attributes can be changed with what tooling is being presented. So like relief angle for inserts for example, like that would be added as one of the attributes for data.

00;57;21;01 – 00;57;26;56
Unknown
So yeah. Yes.

00;57;27;01 – 00;57;51;30
Unknown
Okay. And then how are tool numbers assigned. Is that like on the label or by file. So our letter separates, you know A’s are in mils B or vol mils. And then I can go down the whole entire list. We when creating a tool, we have the option of setting a number specifically. And then it obviously it will tell us, you know, on account upon creation.

00;57;51;30 – 00;58;09;55
Unknown
Hey, if this tool number is being used, it will tell us, but we let it generate the next number available for us. But it gives us the option to put in, a specific tooling number. We, just make sure to put it in the correct tooling letter. And we have some most clients do it that way.

00;58;09;55 – 00;58;29;50
Unknown
And I know we have some that do prefer to have it a smart number that the number means something and you know significant about what the tool is. But I think most go with this sort of randomize next number on the list. And just make sure that tool group is is accurate. Okay. And then to do that yeah.

00;58;29;50 – 00;58;51;38
Unknown
Sorry. Two quantities. Do those include tooling assigned to a machine asset in a standard pocket. And how do you handle worn or broken tooling? I think we went into a little bit of that with re grinding. So yes, we’ll say the the worn and broken tooling, it’s checked out of our system. So it’s a sign. So it’s, it’s no longer in like available stock.

00;58;51;38 – 00;59;06;22
Unknown
So if it comes back broken it doesn’t reenter the stock. It goes into our scrap bin or it goes into the bin to be verified for use to be put back in for you. So but it’s Yes.

00;59;06;26 – 00;59;28;30
Unknown
There’s one additional detail to that. And, you know, this, quantity in use that we see right here. There’s a process in pro shop where you can take a tool out of inventory and load it virtually into a machine. So, you know, it’s in a tool pocket in the carousel, of that machine. But, so that is a function that you can use.

00;59;28;32 – 00;59;47;05
Unknown
That is these guys don’t use that. But, that, that tells you if you have a standard tool set in one through 20 is always the same, then, can help. It is used in, in some of our tooling. Oh, nice. We’re we’re implementing it. But, I think Ricky said earlier, we have a lot of, like, a lot of stuff behind us that we would have to catch up.

00;59;47;05 – 00;59;52;20
Unknown
So it’s a it’s a process that we’re working on.

00;59;52;25 – 01;00;10;51
Unknown
All right. So many more. But we’re kind of at time aren’t we. Yeah. We have come up to the end of our time. So if anyone has further questions or wants to learn more and for the people that I apologize, we were not able to get to your questions today. Feel free to contact Pro Shop or cruciate, Manufacturing Solutions directly for assistance.

01;00;10;56 – 01;00;27;00
Unknown
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01;00;27;12 – 01;00;30;15
Unknown
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