I spent the last couple of weeks working with our draftsmen on their V6 projects and the processes we are using. We’re making some great progress here. Our LAX project is an amazingly complex challenge for V6. I’ll try to post some pictures in the near future so you can see what we are doing.We built a plan this week for fabrication tickets on the job. There are approx. 1500 units on the project and over 1000 unit types. The geometry is complex with 5 and 6 sided units, sloped, curved walls, etc… The system is unitized with a pressure plate and face cap and lots of parts and pieces. Over 50 custom dies on the job. Most of the pressure plates and face caps run different than the bodies so you have lots of complexity and notching also.
Our shop is going to produce 80 units per week for about 14 weeks. We built a plan this week to release fabrication tickets, CNC programming and cutting lists in the same weekly cycles. This puts the tickets in our shop’s hands about two months before they are ready to fabricate allowing lots of time for planning. We start tickets on Monday. I’ll keep you posted on our progress.
November 20, 2010
