UK plastics + composites — vacuum form, CNC, laser — small-batch and run production with material traceability.
UK plastics and composites — vacuum form, CNC, laser — small-batch and run production with material lot traceability, tooling library, and first-pass yield tracking.
Each material lot logged at goods-in and tied to every part it touched. Recall scope down to the part, not the whole month's run, when a customer flags an issue.
Every tool indexed with location, condition, last service, and the parts it produces. End-of-life flagged before a run rejects, not after.
Resin draws, cycle time, labour bookings rolled into per-job margin while the run is still on the floor. No surprise loss-makers at month-end.
Every reject logged with reason code at the point of failure. Patterns surface in days, not quarters — so the tool, the resin, or the operator can be fixed.
Sample approvals, drawing RFIs, delivery dates — pulled into a single project thread per customer. The buyer, the office, and the production lead on the same page.
Mould specs, resin datasheets, cycle parameters, retain photos, customer-specific finishes — indexed and searchable from the floor or the office.
An eight-staff plastics shop ran vacuum-form and CNC for a handful of repeat customers but couldn't say which lot, which tool, or which shift drove rejects. Two-week build: lot capture at goods-in tied through to part, reject reason-codes on a tablet at QC, Pareto rolled up weekly. Six months in: first-pass yield from 84% to 96%, two tools retired before they cost a run, one resin supplier replaced after the data showed it.
How we measure: First-pass yield calculated as parts passing initial QC / total parts produced, weekly rolling, baseline 12 weeks before go-live; tool retirement decisions tied to per-tool reject curve hitting threshold; supplier change reconciled against per-lot reject rate over 90-day windows.
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Bring a recent run sheet, the reject log, and the tooling list. We diagnose from the numbers.