The Romac Production Control system is designed to assist the steel fabricator with bill of material weight calculations, shop cutting lists, sequencing of shipments, tracking of production milestones, and printing of shipping tickets. The following will give you a brief overview of the program's features.

The Production Control system includes a shop bill of material, master shipping list, shop cutting list, a cumulative weight report, tracking of production milestones and printing of shipping tickets. Other reports include a task milestone posting summary, shipping report, shipping piece status report, and a shipping piece shortage report.

The heart of the Romac Production Control system is the shop bill of material. This module allows you to enter the bill of material including piece marks, material descriptions, material specification, etc. directly from the shop detail drawings. Larger jobs can be broken down into multiple shipping sequences to make the job more manageable. The data entry routine is designed to allow less experienced office personnel to quickly and easily enter the bill of material data. The program will calculate the bill of material weights and provide shipping piece weights, shipping sequence weights, and drawing total weights. In addition to providing weights, the shop bill of material data acts as a job data base for the other production control modules.

The automatic sorting and printing of shop cutting lists can be a tremendous time savings. Once the shop bill of material has been entered, a sorted shop cutting list can be printed. The sort routine groups the material by specification and description and provides subtotal weights for each grouping. The cutting list can be selected by drawing numbers, shipping sequences, material type, or shipping load.

The production control program gives the ability to track production milestones through the shop and also allows you to print shipping tickets. Up to six different production milestones (such as Fit- up, Inspection, Painting, etc.) can be tracked.

Printing of a shipping ticket can be as simple as entering the quantity and piece mark of the items being shipped. The shipping module uses the previously entered shop bill of material data to list the item description, length, and weight to the shipping ticket. The printed shipping ticket can be used as a packing document to send with the shipment.

• User changeable data base: The Production Control system uses the Series 5.3 Fabrication Package data base. Material descriptions and specifications along with weight units can be added to this data base by the user.
• Shop Standards: If your shop uses standard details such as connections, they can be added to the Shop Standards listing. These items can then be added to the bill of material without re- entering the entire material description.
• Job Standards: Similar to shop standards, detail items that occur on multiple drawings can be added the Job Standards listing.

• Integrated Length Nesting: A length nesting module is included for the shop cutting list. If our Inventory Control program is used, the length nesting routine can use available material from inventory. Otherwise, available material can be entered from the keyboard. The nesting routine will produce a suggested cutting pattern which makes efficient use of the material.
• Data Import: A data import utility is available to import bill of material data from selected detailing packages or other sources. Please inquire for availability and pricing on specific import modules.