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01/07/2003
And it is that in many companies the budgeting of certain work has become today a real problem. In the frantic dynamics of dates of delivery and production planning, single drawing up a budget is assumed as a small hassle, in addition to as a waste of time, when it's a crucial process. Make a budget possible as quickly and accurately is on many occasions which allows to get an order. That is evidence due to the immediacy of deadlines, many times the client makes the request to the company that previously sent a budget. With the aim of offering a solution to be problematic, Lantek has developed a powerful module capable of generating accurate budgets in just a few minutes in a simple and graphic. This module integrated into the Lantek Expert III production management system, can be purchased in conjunction with the rest of the modules that comprise this solution (sales, warehouses, orders, etc.) or separately.
Lantek Expert III budgets allow budgeting pieces received in DXF format, existing pieces in our database that already have been manufactured previously, or even parts that a client send us by fax or by phone.
One of the most important potentialities of the wizard of budgets is a program of quick drawing that allows in just seconds to perform a sketch of a piece whose drawing hand appeal has been received via fax or geometric characteristics we have been described over the telephone. Imagine, for example, the client X, laminated Bengoa, telephone to the subcontractor Y, workshops Gómez, in order to send you the features that would have a piece. The first step of the person in charge of budgeting the piece in workshops Gomez, after selecting the variables of thickness, material, etc. required by the customer laminates Bengoa, would be to design broadly the piece using the fast drawing wizard. All of this, knowing that in this first phase would be sufficient to make a sketch of the piece in question to hit with the budget.
Act followed, choose Center work or machine with which we would like cutting or shearing the piece in question and the system would calculated the costs of the operation would involve, taking into account the following variables:
- Cost of equipment: once calculated the amount of steel required for carrying out the work, the budget wizard imputaría this in the final budget. The customer would also have the possibility of attributed part of the surplus cutting, depending on their interests, taking into account, if it could be used in later work, etc.
Lantek Expert III budgets also contemplates the possibility that the client is who supplied material and therefore this cost should not taken into account in the budget. - Cost of machining, which is broken down into:
- Time of machining: while the machine would need to perform the work, including the change of sheet if necessary.Depending on the cost per hour that has been assigned to the machine in question and thanks to internally simulating the process of machining, Lantek Expert III budgets get a very accurate estimation of the cost/machine.
- Consumables: in the budget breakdown that the system takes place, it tells us even the cost of the required consumables (abrasive for cutting by water; gas for laser, plasma and oxyfuel; wear and tear of the punches in the event that the work was of punching consumed electricity), etc.
- Added operations: the system would take into account also other types of transactions such as deburring, painting, bending, welding, trimming, etc.
Once calculated the time of machining on a specific machine, the wizard even allows us return to the second step and choose a technology or a different machine for carrying out the work, in order to compare rates and pick the cheapest or most cost-effective alternative. This would be possible to also choosing different materials.
In summary, the advantages that this system reports are as follows:
- Savings of time of up to 80% in the preparation of budgets.
- Significant increases in the precision of the budgets.
- Possibility of drawing in matter of seconds, by means of a Wizard of fast drawing, a sketch of the work in question, without having to enter into the CAD module to draw the piece.
- Able to compare prices: once done a job with a laser machine, for example, might be calculated also how much will cost me to carry out the same task in a punching machine or even two different laser machines.
- Possibility to evaluate the profitability of a particular machine.
- Calculation of consumables and operations added in the budgeting process.
- Budgets module allows you to increase or reduce the desired profit margin and recalculate the budget with different margins.
- Possibility of charging based on the spare sheet or cutting in the final budget.
- Once accepted the budget by the client, it's really simple to turn it into a firm order and send it to manufacturing.
- Listings of all the budgeted work and even the possibility to store them in a historic budget.
