FOD Costs

Al Mac with 405 CD

Anyone know if the cost bucket numbers in FOD Shop Operations File correlate 
to Cost Bucket numbers in Cost Master?

It would be nice if I knew for a fact that OOCST (bucket 2) meant standard 
cost of the quantity completed while OLCST (bucket 1) meant actual cost for 
the labor / machine hours reported, or some equally meaningful algorithm.

I am looking into ways to drill down into a part to identify where the cost 
variances are coming from ... for example we have a 100 sub-assembly part & 1 
of the 100 has a serious labor reporting efficiency problem ... in the past 
we have found this kind of thing through queries that look at FLT labor 
ticket history, but our sub-assemblies use common item numbering not linked 
to end item numbers.

I have now written a program (a lot of it was cloned from SSA code) that goes 
down BOM to find all manufactured sub-components, looks at the FRTL03 
operations on them to get standards, looks at FOD & FSO current activity to 
get actual rates of current activity, charts labor reporting efficiency & I 
was noodling around to find the most elegant way to show where the actual 
cost is coming from.

A lot of our worker time is not production time but setup, inspection of 
their output, and while we do not track it, I figure they probably take a 
minute or two to fill out each labor ticket.  Are there any industry 
statistics or standards on what percentage of production worker time we would 
expect to find them actually working on the end products, as opposed to 
setup, inspection, & paperwork?

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
MIS Manager Green Screen Programmer & Computer Janitor of BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 
running on AS/400 V4R3 http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of 
Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical 
sub-assemblies
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