Planning system key to laser tube success

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In any busy works department job planning is key to maximum efficiency, and the Top Tubes laser tube department is no exception, even more so now that a fourth laser tube machine is in operation.

Our Laser Tube Planning System – a customised extension of our Tube Manager software – has been in operation for about a year and a half and is now well proven and thoroughly bedded in.

Steve Powell and Adam Bradley

Dave Wise: “Increased workload due in part to

success of planning system”.

David wise on factory floor
Dave Wise: “Increased workload due in part to success of planning system”.

 

With it, we get an overall view of every job going through the laser tube department at any given time: the stage it’s at and when it will be completed. It enables us to juggle jobs if necessary, perhaps pulling a job forward if it’s especially urgent. Crucially, it allows us to keep a customer fully informed as to the progress of the work and to provide an instant answer to a customer without their having to wait.

As Dave Wise, Laser Production Manager, says, “An element of fire-fighting is inevitably going to be present from time to time in a busy department like ours, but this is fire-fighting in a planned manner”. “We’re sure”, he says, “that the increased workload that has necessitated our new laser tube machine is due in part to the success of our planning system”.

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