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Jan 17, 2023 at 12:35 PM

Rawmaterial remaining quantity

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Hello all,

a customer has the following problem:
A rawmaterial (sheet of metal - 6000mm long) is cut into smaller pieces, e.g. 5000mm to further process it. The system knows that there will be 1000mm left. After a couple different cuts it happens that the system wants to use multiple of these residual amounts to process (take 5x 1000mm to basically have the 5000mm), which isn't working.
The current solution is to manually book the residual materials in a separate storage location. This way you know how much material and in what length is in stock.
Manually doing this is too much effort and the customer is now looking for a way to automize this and still have correct results.
My question: how to manage rawmaterials and the residual amounts when cutting them into smaller pieces. Currently the material data has mm as a measurement - is piece a better solution? In that case we would have 1 piece of metal which is 6m long.
I am thankful for any advice on this topic.

Best,
Hendrik