Defining a Product Structure

["Jeanne Schrader" <schraderj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good Afternoon All,

I work for a company that produces forgings, and we're taking on some new 
items.  We've always produced one forging for one piece of steel cut, but now, 
they want to cut one piece of steel, and produce 4 forgings from it.  Has 
anyone done this in Mapics?  We're at a loss of how to set up our Product 
Structure and Routing to accomplish this.  We're running XA R6 with just PDM, 
no EPDM.

For example:    Routing step 0010 is to cut the steel into 10lb pieces
                        Routing step 0020 is to forge the pieces, yielding 4 - 
2lb pieces with 2 lbs of scrap...

Thanks in advance for any help I can get!



Jeanne Schrader 
IS Manager, Milwaukee Forge
schraderj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: 414-489-7067