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24 ALS 4.0 XE P R O D U C T M A N U A L EN For the example Standard Piece List presented earlier you would need six bins (similar to the diagram above) to store the Standard Pieces when they are cut by the ALS. When you load a job into the ALS, it looks for any of these six pieces that might be in the job and automatically marks them as already cut on the assumption that the bins have enough in them to build that job. Each time the assembly crews build a job that needs some of these pieces, they go to these bins and get what they need. But if one of the bins is full, and you don't need any more of those pieces for a while, you can mark that piece with a red flag. The Standard Pieces feature will not cut any more of that piece until you change the mark to green. In the example above, the bin for 16RB is full. That's why its flag is red on the Standard Piece List. Conversely, let's say one of the bins is chronically low, like the 14DIAG and 16DIAG above. You can correct that situation by setting the priority for that piece higher. That's why these pieces are priority 1 and 2 on the example Standard Piece List. If that fails to cut enough of those pieces to keep the assembly line supplied, it probably means that the piece is not a good candidate for the Standard Piece feature. Remove it from the Standard Piece list, and the ALS program will cut it with every job where it is needed. You can make changes to the priority or flags at any time and as often as necessary. There will be a period of "tuning" the process to find the combination that works best for your operation. After that, frequent changes will probably not be necessary. Using this simple Dead Reckoning Inventory system, you will be able to keep an adequate supply of Standard Pieces, but you won't have to maintain a detailed inventory management system. Just keep an eye on the Standard Piece bins and make some common sense adjustments when necessary. If you try to open StdPcs.trs as a job, all the pieces will be marked cut, and you will not be able to restore them very easily. If this ever happens, use the following procedure. Go to the Standard Piece List, turn OFF Mark Found Pieces Cut, Save, go back to the StdPcs.TRS job file, use the Restore function to remove the red marks, Change Job Location to another directory, go back to Standard Piece List, turn ON Mark Found Pieces Cut, and Save. Dead Reckoning Inventory System – This is a simple, common sense system for making sure that the Standard Piece function produces enough, but not too much, of the pieces you need. Let's look at a sample Standard Piece List: Figure 31 There are two controls that are used in the Dead Reckoning Inventory Control System, and both of them are on this list. 1. Priority – Note that the highest priority has been assigned to the longest pieces in the set. That way, these longer pieces will be cut as often as possible. Since they are the longest pieces, they would not be chosen as frequently if the shorter pieces had a higher priority. 2. Flags – Also note that one of the pieces (4) is marked with a red flag (darker gray in illustration). As long as that flag is red, that piece will not be cut. Figure 32