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Workshop Capacity Planner

Twenty day-book pages ruled In, Job, Machine, Out, twelve habit pages tracking ten stations, and sixteen for notes.

Specification

Trim: 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
Pages: 60
Leaves: 30
Sheets: 15
Signatures: 3 × 20pp
Spine: 3.43 mm
Paper: white
Ruling: lined
Ruling pitch: 7.14 mm · 20.25 pt · 9/32 in
Rows per page: 24

Ten names run across the habit page: lathe, mill, grinder, press, three benches, a welding bay, paint, assembly. A row goes down for each day, with ten boxes across it, and a mark in one means that station ran that day. It is not a schedule. It is a record of what actually happened, made after the fact.

Twenty day-book pages follow the habit tracker, ruled into four columns: in, job, machine, out. This is the job-by-job record the habit page cannot hold, the same four fields every time a job crosses the floor.

Sixteen lined pages at 7.14 mm pitch hold whatever the boxes and the columns leave out: why the mill was down half a day, which job actually needed the press twice, a part to reorder before it runs out. A box marked says a machine ran. It does not say why it stopped.

What is inside

Habit: 12pp; Ten stations across the page, lathe through assembly, one box per day each.
Daybook: 20pp; Four columns per job crossing the floor: in, job, machine, out.
Notes: 16pp; For why a machine was down, not only that it ran.

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