Production Release

The Operation Manager/Production Manager and authorized personnel shall determine the production schedule for the machine shop. Production release is based on daily review of:

• delivery date

• current customer needs

• machine center availability

• manpower

• work in progress status

• material availability

• lead time requirements

Job will be assigned based on review of the production schedule.

Upon receipt of a job, the production machinist shall review the job packet and job traveler to verify all documentation required to manufacture the part is available. If documentation is incomplete, the machinist will contact the Production Supervisor before going any further with the job. Production Supervisor will obtain required documentation for addition to the job packet.

Production machinist will obtain raw material for the job.

• non-certified material will be pulled from general material inventory

• certified material will be distributed by the production supervisor or authorized personnel by retrieval from the certified material inventory

• only certified raw material assigned to the current job will be at the work center.

• Production machinist will program the CNC code required to produce the customer product using: programming software, customer model, customer print and additional documentation required as required

Production machinist will select required tools to produce the customer product.

Production machinist will build required fixtures to produce the customer product.

Production machinist will build the first part.

First part is submitted to quality control for first article inspection to verify the manufacturing process is producing a part that satisfies all customer requirements.