Furniture Industry & Suppliers
Whether your business manufactures furniture from concept to sale, be that for kitchen, bedroom, bathroom or office, or supplies panel products such as kitchen and bedroom doors to the fitted furniture industry the production process centres around producing a series of cut parts from stock material. This may be for high volume orders, or small batch production, or it may vary from project to project for custom orders.
Whilst making decisions as to how to cut plan production various considerations might need to be made. Are cut parts required in exact quantities, or could extra be produced for stock? Are there strict deadlines on meeting production, or is an expensive material being used which must have the absolute minimum wastage possible regardless of production time? Could multiple different orders be combined together when planning to make more efficient use of material – and what effect would that have on work in progress? What are the restrictions on the saw in terms of pattern layout and content? As a manual process this is time consuming, prone to error and unlikely to give the most efficient result.
SECANT Enterprise takes your parts list and stock availability and automatically generates cutting plans with an optimal but customisable balance between material usage and production time. Patterns can be sent directly to automatic saws, eliminating the time consuming and error prone process of rekeying, or a variety of customised printed reports can be generated giving clear instructions to saw operators.
Cut part and stock information can be imported from Excel or CSV files, or cut and pasted/entered manually into SECANT directly. For further integration with 3rd party software bespoke interfaces can be developed.
The highest yields and the most efficient saw usage can generally be achieved by allowing SECANT to freely combine any of the piece sizes in the cutting list. However, such patterns may result in an unacceptable amount of work in progress where at any time a large number of orders are partially complete. SECANT Enterprise can constrain the result so that pieces are produced broadly in line with a production schedule, or to meet the production requirements downstream of the saw.
The objective of an optimisation can be dependent on the current status of the business at any given time – a high value material may require an absolute maximum yield optimisation, or an urgent order may need producing in the fastest possible time. The multi-objective optimisation functionality of SECANT Enterprise allows the user to run the same cutting list and stock file against multiple control configurations. The user may then review all the results before selecting the best option to send forward for production.
For direct interfacing with automatic saws SECANT Enterprise can produce interface files in the standard PTX and CPOUT formats as well as in the native formats of a wide range of saw manufacturers. A selection of controls also allows patterns to be tailored to the capabilities of the saw.
Which Product Suits You Best?
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SECANT Enterprise
SECANT Enterprise produces cutting plans with an optimal balance between material usage and production time with both cost-based and multi-objective optimisation algorithms. It can be fully integrated with order management and stock control systems, and link directly to your cutting device.
SECANT Enterprise is for more complicated manufacturing environments producing higher volumes using beam saws or angular saw plants.
Only have a small workshop?
SECANT Sheet
Produces fast cutting, low wastage optimised plans for all types of wood and plastic sheet materials
SECANT Sheet quickly tells you how to cut your sheets in the most efficient way for your business, and is for smaller workshops processing wood or plastic sheet material on panel or sliding table saws.
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