Scrap Management in Punching Staion of Sheet Metal Industry

Automotive industry has been experiencing the competitive environment and striving hard to find out the way to reduce the manufacturing cost of the product. Cost reduction could be achieved either by using low cost material or by reusing the scrapped material. Since the customer requires the standard material for their product, low cost material could not be used to achieve the cost reduction. So reusing the scrapped material will help to reduce manufacturing cost. Tracking and retrieving of material is necessary to reuse it. Scrap Tracking and management system is one of the major tool used in the industry to track and retrieve the parts without major effort. This work is carried out in a sheet metal industry with the objective of improving the resource utilization. Aim of this case study is to develop the real time data tracking system to track scrapped sheets. Database is used to store the information about scrapped sheets. This database is linked with scrap tracking application to allow user to add and update the information and also to retrieve the required information. Scrap tag is prepared and attached to the scrapped sheet to retrieve the particular material from the storage without any difficulty.