The document outlines plans to improve the organization and tracking of cores in a core yard. It proposes creating a middle access aisle to allow easier picking from both sides of rows. It also recommends rotating stock to prevent degradation, arranging all items in labeled rows, and using a locator program to pick the oldest stock first. The document then describes a proposed lot control system to better track customer cores through the receipt, storage, picking, and processing stages. This includes attaching lot control documents with serial numbers and quantities to cores and updating records as cores are consumed. Finally, it discusses how the lot control documents can be collected and used to generate work orders tracking production by lot and employee.

1. ALTEC CANADA
Core Yard
To
Work Order
ACTION PLAN

2. Core Yard Re-Organize
• Create Middle Access Aisle to allow picking from
each side. Longitude and Latitude access.
• Rotate stock to prevent degrading of the plastic
shrink wrap. Shrink wrap has one (1) year life
span in this environment.
• Put all items in rows, reading left to right, ROW1,
ROW2 etc.
• Use Locator program to pick oldest stock to fulfill
Pick or Customer Order.

3. Possible Core Yard Configuration
MIDDLE ISLE ALLOWS ROTATION OF STOCK

4. Lot Control Step 1
• Create Locator program to print out Lot
Control Documents, with Part, Qty,
Customer Number and Lot Serial number.
• Place Paper document in plastic zip lock
bag. Place Lot control document inside
shrink wrap to identify customer cores.
• Keep track in locator system of customer
cores, oldest cores etc. Use color paper to
help segment cores by type, or customer.

5. Lot Control Step 2
• Cores unloaded off truck, all get Lot
Controlled. Check BOL to insure receipt off
proper number of core “CUBES”.
• BOL is used to generate with Locator system Lot
Control Documents.
• Tracking now will be enabled for all customer
cores for audit purposes.
• As Core “CUBES” are consumed or added the
Lot Documents are turned in and the Locator
System, is updated accordingly.

6. Lot Control Step 3
• All LOT Control “Cubes” are placed in
proper rows. Location off stored Lot
Controlled “Cubes” is reported an placed
in the Locator System.
• Locator system will tell workers what Lot
to pick and from which ROW and location.
• Office Control Can direct by radio, paper
document what to Pick, from where and
what Lot Serial numbers.

7. LOT CONTROLED CORE CUBE
CUSTOMER NUMBER
LOT SERIAL NUMBER
DATE 12/25/2004
PART NUMBER
QTY
Expiration Date 12/25/2005-Plastic fatigue.
Place in row, add to locator database.
All pallets must have identification.

8. Lot Control Cores In Production
• As Core Cubes are consumed the Lot
Control Documents are turned in.
• Lot Control Documents are placed in Box
by the Core Washer, in the order they
were consumed.
• Lot Control Documents are collected and
may be used for various purposes. Labor
collection, inventory, customer scrap
reporting etc.

9. Lot Document Flow
Lot 1001 in process!
• Core Cube 1001 going into process.
QTY 216 PC.
Lot 1001 in process!
Put Lot Lot 1001 out.
Doc in
QTY 216 PC.
box.
Altec Process.
LOT TO BOX CONTROL

10. Lot Control, Picks and Work Orders
• PICK Document can be used to direct
Core Yard Employees by radio what to
Pick, from where, and by lot serial to put in
Altec process.
• Lot Document can be aligned up with
Work orders. “I picked and processed
these Lots this hour or today, therefore I
did this much work.”

11. LOT WORK ORDERS
• Collect Lot Documents from BOX.
• Enter Production from Lot Documents
again Monthly, Weekly, Daily Work Order
for Part.
• Use Generic Employee Numbers 100 for
day shift, 200 for evenings.
• Calculate back flush crew size to be
applied against employee number 100.

12. LOT Ticket Issuing From Truck to
PRE-SORT (Mixed Part Lots).
Path-A
• Shipping receives pack list, and makes as
many copies as there are pallets.
• Pack list is placed in plastic zip bag for
protection, and placed with pallet.
• As Lots are dispersed to retrieve a
particular part to be placed on a new
pallet, the exact amount of parts actually
retrieved are written on the packing list.

13. LOT Ticket Issuing From Truck to
PRE-SORT (Mixed Part Lots). Path A
• As the pallet is disassembled, the pack
lists are used to record against they are
turned in and tallied up in a database,
when all for that shipment are in, they are
compared against the original BOL and
Pack List, variance.
•

14. LOT DISPERSION CONTROL
PATHS
SAME TYPE PARTS DROPPED OFF, ORDERED CORRECTLY
No Sorting Necessary. All from Same Customer. The Ideal Situation.
Copy PACK Slip:
Place Pack Slip in Zip Bag
Place Pack=Lot Document with each pallet.
Place Pallet in Row in Core Yard.
Record Location of Pallet to Locator Program.
Information handed into front office.

15. LOT DISPERSION CONTROL
PATHS
DIFFERENT TYPE PARTS DROPPED OFF, NOT ORDERED
CORRECTLY
Sorting Necessary. All from Same Customer.
Consolidate LOTS into like parts on pallets.
Tally new consolidated lots to lot ticket control.
Place Lot Ticket in Zip Bag.
Place Lot Document with each pallet.
Place Pallet in Row in Core Yard.
Record Location of Pallet to Locator Program.
Information handed into front office.

16. LOT DISPERSION CONTROL
PATHS
DIFFERENT TYPE PARTS DROPPED OFF, NOT ORDERED
CORRECTLY
Sorting Necessary. All from Different Customers. Currently Parts are
Sorted into like type pallets, but no control over who the customer was
who provided the material.
4 LAWS OF SORTING
2. Sort/Segregate by Customer where possible.
3. Store by part type in Core Yard.
4. Process material by Customer/Supplier Part.
5. All REMAN processed Cubes must be from Lot
Controlled pallet, for scrap, and value.

17. LOT DISPERSION CONTROL
PATHS, Consolidate by Customer.
• Sort By Customer into Part Specific
Pallets. If customer/supplier sends in
mixed lot cores, sort into like part pallets.
• Same Customer, Same parts, different
deliveries.
Tag lots with Customer Name and Lot Control Information, See slide 7.
Put Away in Sorted Core Yard, Full Pallets of same type parts. No part
Should be in sorted Core Yard that are not controlled.

18. Lot Consolidation Problems
By Customer
• I sorted by Customer, then by Part type,
but now I have uneven core loads on my
pallets.
• I want to store by even cube pallets.

19. Lot Consolidation Problems
By Customer, with paper alone.
Consolidation of two customers into one lot, is “manageable”.
Three or more very problematic.
1. Worker writes down number, of Cores from first customer.
2. Then adds Second customer to pallet.
3. After cube is assemble, total count tells number of Second.
4. New Lot packet assigned, to new consolidated Lot, old lot tickets
Are tuned in, and new lot is now combination of both.
5. Loss of scrap visibility by individual customer here.
6. Diagnostics if combo/lots have high scrap, pull by problematic customer.

20. I have a Lot I need to sort

21. I sorted the lot by customer here’s
what I got.

22. How do I consolidate another
customer into these new lots? And
keep track?

23. Tally Counters

24. Brake Shoe Tally Count
• As Brakes are placed on skids, the worker
presses the tally counter or flips the
number card on the pole in front of the
skid. This keeps count per skid.
• When the customer lot has been
dispersed, the workers walk and take note
of the tally counters per skid.
• Reset tally to zero, disperse another
customer into the lots. Repeat till full.

25. Running Tally Tools
• Tally Counters.
• Flip Card Counter
• Count Sheets

26. Pros/Cons of Tally Counter
• Pro: You know exact count from customer.
• Pro: You can compare count to BOL.
• Con: Lose track of scrap, in consolidated
lot. Check for obvious scrap during sort,
set aside on RED Skid, note by customer.
• Diagnostic: If consolidated lot has high
scrap, you can track which customers and
lots gave birth to these new lots. Pull
diagnostic on these customers.

27. Smarter Environment
• Make the environment work for you.
• Make the counting process easy to be
remember by artifacts that don’t forget.
• Use flip cards, pocket computers, hand
tallies or calculators to “remember” for the
workers.
• Keep it simple, smarter. KISS method.
• Environments are information systems.
• Define and label space or spaces.row/col

28. LEAN WORK ORDER
• To be continued………….