Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
(OP)
Currently I am using MS Word and digital photos with minimal verbage to depict assembly methods. Although this is highly effective, and the operators love them, they are extremely labor intensive up front.
My question is, does anybody know of a any work instruction software that will compile text with digital photos that doesnt take hours and hours to complile?
It should reflect operation sequence number, cycle time, BOM, tools required, ect.
My question is, does anybody know of a any work instruction software that will compile text with digital photos that doesnt take hours and hours to complile?
It should reflect operation sequence number, cycle time, BOM, tools required, ect.





RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
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RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
I used a software before that you type the text, associate it to the pic number, and press a button and is ties the pic to the text, and constructs the WI's for you, it was a wonderful software. Unfortunitly they are out of business.
RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
Other than that, we are doing things with web publishing software so that our processes go out on the company intranet. You could take a look at something like that as it may be friendlier for integrating text and graphics.
Regards
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RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
thanks again.
RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
http://www.productionmanuals.com
http://www.techviewcorp.com
joejack7
Mfg. Engineer
"Fighting the 'Good' Fight"
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RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
jck26
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I am a novice programmer and I can write pretty much anything in Access. I still think Word is harder to use than Access! It is horribly inefficient and it never works the way you want it to. It is sad it is one of the only pieces of software available though.
If a day comes I can do such a thing, it would make sense to create some kind of work instruction template in Access in which you insert everything through a form and it will output to a set report. It is how other companies may do it already.
For now, most people get stuck with Word and end up losing all of their hair.
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RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
I created a template in Pagemaker which has space for build sequence, and a visual BOM (component photo or illustration) for each station.
The photos are downloaded into a dedicated folder, and then drag/drop into the document. Description is entered in the space provided below photo.
Each workcenter has a Pagemaker file, each station has it's own page (seperated into tabs much like MS Excel)
You have a lot more control over placement and none of the formatting issues that come with word/excel.
We use photoshop for image cropping/editing. Frequently our parts change color, and it's much easier for us to edit the photo than send a person from location to location re-photographing.
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RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
What is SEQUENCE like, it looks good but does it save time compared to word, I like the e-doc option.
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We have not officially used them yet, but our conversations thus far have been great. They are very friendly and helpful to talk to and they seemed to have worked with alot of different ERP/MRP systems. I would recommend giving them a call b/c I think they will do a demo.
To reiterate the point...we currently have a lot of time involved in the process of creating and maintaining instruction documents and their software seems to try and handle that process very well.
Good Luck.
joejack7
Mfg. Engineer
"Fighting the 'Good' Fight"
RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
Many thanks.
RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
Regards,
RE: Work Instructions, SOE's, SOP's, Build Instructions.
I've used it, pagemaker and a custom application for instruction sheets and found that with word and pagemaker the problem was a tendency to tweak the layout because you can. The custom application I wrote myself in Delphi didn't let me do as much with the pictures and as a result was a lot quicker to use.
The last place I had to do operator instructions I created a really simple template with a table for the main content.
|Op | Image | Narrative |
I just dragged and dropped all my pictures from a folder into the table (it works with word), resized them then added text and annotations using words drawing tools. I avoided trying to do more than that.
I think the key is the quality of the pictures, a clear space, good lighting and a clean backdrop all help. Taking pictures in the shop is less than ideal.