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Plate Combination

The Broner Plate Combination module provides the ability to combine several orders for plate into one, baby slab. The Plate Combination groups orders by similar characteristics such as finished gauge, finished width, grade and quality and, for each baby slab, it gives all possible cutting plans for the configured cutting patterns. Plate Combination also allocates work in progress and finished pieces.

Benefits

• Maximises the utilisation of material by combining orders into the largest possible rough plates to reduce scrap
• Maximises the utilisation of equipment by processing larger pieces
• Improves the allocation, by considering all of the available cutting patterns
• Maximises delivery performance
• Provides flexibility when producing caster schedules by generating a number of prototypes for each slab.

Features

• Select orders to be grouped by several factors including due-dates and status
• Group orders by similar characteristics including gauge, width, grade and quality
• Calculates preferred slab dimension for combinations
• Outputs cutting plans for use by Production Planner, Production Scheduler, Caster Scheduler and Hot Mill Scheduler modules.

Plate Combination Viewer