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At the start of each project, the MECO Project Management group creates a Top Level Project Schedule utilizing Microsoft Projects. The Top Level Project includes start and finish dates for all major milestones necessary to complete a project on time. Examples of milestones include release of drawings and bills of material, customer approval of drawings, material purchases and receipts, fabrication start and completion, etc. The Top Level Project Schedule serves as the master for all other detailed scheduling.

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The MECO Engineering group enters requirements for each part to be made for a project, along with bills of material, into our ManFact ERP System.

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The Manufacturing Planning Group creates a work order for each requirement for a made part and assigns a start / completion date based on the milestones established by the Top Level Project Schedule. These work orders and dates become the foundation for driving material requirements and the allocation of manpower needed to complete each work order.

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Once the work orders and date have been entered into the ManFact System, an update of the Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) module is performed. All materials in stock are reserved for the respective work orders and requirements are generated to purchase all other materials. The MRP outlines for the Materials group all materials to be purchased, as well as the date these materials must be received to maintain the production schedule.

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The Manufacturing Planning group begins the process of allocating Production personnel to each project based on the start and completion dates required by the work orders. The Manloading Schedule is completed and provided to foremen who employ labor from their respective areas to the work orders and projects.

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Production meetings are held weekly to review material receipts, manufacturing production progress and to solve any day-to-day problems that may arise on a project or workorder.