Industries · Moulds and dies
Time tracking for mould and die makers
A mould or a die builds up hours over weeks, and the last ones, fitting and trials, are the hardest to predict. With Vexyon every hour ends up on its order and in its section.
One mould, many stages
Making a mould or a die combines very different stages: rough and finish machining, EDM, fitting and polishing, assembly and trials. Some are hours of attended machine time; others are painstaking bench work.
When they all land on the same sheet, there is no way to tell which stage ate the margin.
Typical sections
- Machining
- Roughing and finishing plates, cavities and inserts.
- EDM
- Sinker and wire.
- Fitting and polishing
- Bench work until everything closes as it should.
- Assembly
- The complete mould or die.
- Trials
- Trials and corrections until sign-off.
Fitting and trial hours
The corrections after a trial are real hours the quote does not always allow for. If they are clocked to their own section, the order shows how many there were, and the quote for the next similar tool can take them into account.
The comparison with planned time recalculates on every entry, so the overrun shows while the tool is still in the shop. Actual hours against planned time.
Long orders, long history
A mould can come back years later for a modification or a repair. Because entries are stored on Vexyon’s side and do not depend on the ERP, the hours from the original build are still in the history even if that order is no longer in the ERP.
Drawings and clocking in the toolroom
Drawings are uploaded by hand in the panel by customer, by order or by order and section; at section level they carry a status (done, in progress or pending). There is no ERP sync: you upload them when needed.
Operators clock in from the touchscreen kiosk or a phone, with no keyboard. What clocking in looks like.