Material, Nesting & Reuse
Material stocks, batches, cut pieces, offcuts, reservations, conditions and origin can be managed as distinct identities. Nesting and reuse become a controlled material cycle.
Today, knowledge about leftover material gets lost.
Offcuts, batches and conditions are often only known on site. New stock is ordered without reliably taking existing material into account, and the origin of a cut piece is hard to trace later.
- Searching for offcuts and stock on site
- Agreeing on reservations verbally
- Planning cutting without considering existing leftover material
- Not documenting the origin and condition of material
What the module covers.
Material stocks
Manage item, material grade, dimensions, batch, condition and location.
Nesting
Optimize and reserve sheets, raw material and offcuts for cutting runs.
Cutting & new identities
Material becomes new parts with their own origin and history.
Reuse
Suggest suitable parts/molds/groups for upcoming requirements and make deliberate decisions.
Refurbish / Shorten
Document condition, refurbish, shorten or reject – without losing history.
KPIs
Evaluate usage, leftover material, scrap and reuse rate based on real events.
From intake to a controlled result.
This is where your team reviews and decides.
secondFactory prepares. At these points, a person confirms, corrects or deliberately approves – nothing slips through unnoticed.
Confirm reservation
Material is reserved for a requirement – competing access is prevented.
Decide on reuse
Suggestions for suitable parts, molds or groups are deliberately approved or rejected.
Document condition
Refurbishing, shortening or rejecting is recorded with condition and history.
What improves day to day.
Lower material consumption
Consider existing material before new stock.
Traceable
Every part retains its origin and condition.
Industry-specific
Customizable for wood, sheets, metal, profiles or customer-specific material logic.
What goes in. What comes out.
Input sources
- Material stocks with material grade, dimensions and batch
- Offcuts and returns
- Requirements of upcoming orders
- Sheets and raw material for nesting
- Condition and origin
Results
- Reservations per requirement
- Nesting and cutting runs
- New identities with origin and history
- Reuse suggestions
- KPIs on usage, leftover material and scrap
Handovers without re-entry.
Planning and engineering
Material requirements from orders and bills of materials.
Material, Nesting & Reuse
Use material intelligently – even across orders.
Production and warehouse
Cut pieces go to production, offcuts and returns go back to the warehouse.
Review material & reuse against your stock.
In a process analysis, we walk through a typical material flow – from stock through cutting to reuse.