One of our first clients was Diversified Machine from Pennsylvania, USA. We’ve conducted detailed analyses of their work process after introduction of 1DCutX. The result was very promising – material savings from $200 to $1500 per month.
The following case studies have been done by online survey of our clients who had been used 1DCutX for more than 6 months.
| Industry: | Metal Fabrication |
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| Company Size: | 11-50 Employers |
| Cutting Material: | Flat Bar, Rectangular Hollow Section (RHS) |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | Yes |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Once a day |
| 1DCutX plans usage: | Utilise these cutting plans in estimates and orders. |
| Additional benefits from 1DCutX: | Accuracy in quantity & lengths of material & time saved from not having to do cutting lists by hand. |
| Industry: | General Building Materials |
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| Company Size: | 101-500 Employers |
| Cutting Material: | Aluminum, PVC, and Wood |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | Yes |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Several times per day |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 26-40% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 6-10% |
| Material savings per month: | From $2,000 to $5,000 |
| 1DCutX plans usage: | Our part descriptions contain routing information that is used in the optimizer headings. We take the tally sheet format from the 1D_matrix tab and concatenate the length and column heading. We then do a merge cells operation to combine the text strings in each row. The end result is a very easy to use optimized cut planner with work instructions. |
| Additional benefits from 1DCutX: | 1DCutX could very easily be adapted to be a closed loop MRP system. We are using a purchased order entry software that provides CSV output. This output is used to generate the bills of material and lineal requirements. 1DCutX provides the waste saving optimization of our lineal components. |
| Industry: | Construction (Residential) |
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| Company Size: | 11-50 Employers |
| Cutting Material: | 48' and 52' beams and other longer material |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | No |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Once a month |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 1-5% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 1-5% |
| Material savings per month: | Less than $100 |
| Additional benefits from 1DCutX: | I only used the product on a specific project I had, but it worked really well. I would see myself using this more if it had a option to return the cutoff material back automatically to the inventory for later jobs. |
| Industry: | Construction (General) |
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| Company Size: | 11-50 Employers |
| Cutting Material: | Aluminum Extrusions |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | No |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Once a month |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 6-10% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 6-10% |
| Material savings per month: | From $100 to $200 |
| Additional benefits from 1DCutX: | I used 1DCutX mostly to figure out how much material I need and the best size to order. |
| Industry: | Construction (General) |
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| Company Size: | Less than 10 Employers |
| Cutting Material: | Aluminum Extrusions |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | Yes |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Once a day |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 6-10% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 1-5% |
| Material savings per month: | From $200 to $500 |
| 1DCutX plans usage: | We use reports from 1DCutX as final cutting plans. |
| Additional benefits from 1DCutX: | Help to streamline inventories. Cut cost. |
| Industry: | Aerospace |
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| Company Size: | 1000+ Employers |
| Cutting Material: | Round Titanium and Steel bar stock. |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | No |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Several times per day. |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 11-25% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 6-10% |
| Material savings per month: | More than $10,000. |
| 1DCutX plans usage: | We need to create a new layout map each time because we feed our material in as a weight, not a size, which renders the cut map locations useless. This is to account for the variability in our material diameter from the vendor. |
| Additional benefits from 1DCutX: | 1DCutX provides a repeatable process that any user can run in a mater of minutes as opposed to taking a specialist hours in the past. |
| Comments: | The software is simple and ideal for an average Excel user. I would improve the layout maps so that they scaled to the number of cuts since material requiring dozens of cuts is often not displayed in full detail. |
| Industry: | General Building Materials |
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| Company Size: | 11-50 Employers |
| Cutting Material: | Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic structural shapes. |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | Yes |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Once a week. |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 11-25% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 6-10% |
| Material savings per month: | From $5,000 to $10,000. |
| Additional benefits from 1DCutX: | The reports were the greatest advantage and we use them for our in house paper work. Better than what we had created in the past. |
| Comments: | Sometimes the error messages can be a bit cryptic but when I adjust a setting here and there I can usually get things to work out. |
| Industry: | Fiberglass manufacturing |
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| Company Size: | Less than 10 Employers |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | Yes |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Once a week. |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 11-25% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 6-10% |
| Material savings per month: | From $200 to $500. |
| Industry: | Construction (General) |
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| Company Size: | 101-500 Employers |
| Cutting Material: | Aluminum Curtainwall material. |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | Yes |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Once a month. |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 11-25% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 6-10% |
| Material savings per month: | From $1,000 to $2,000. |
| Industry: | Construction (Heavy) |
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| Company Size: | 51-100 Employers |
| Cutting Material: | Structural shapes. |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | No |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Several times per day. |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 11-25% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 1-5% |
| Material savings per month: | From $500 to $1,000. |
| Industry: | Construction (General) |
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| Company Size: | Less than 10 Employers |
| Cutting Material: | Cooling pipes |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | No |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Once a month |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 26-40% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 1-5% |
| Material savings per month: | From $2,000 to $5,000. |
| Additional benefits from 1DCutX: | We use it to make a document supporting the cutting process, but also the make the purchase list. Because we don't want to have storage of the materials. |
| Industry: | Metal Fabrication |
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| Company Size: | Less than 10 Employers |
| Cutting Material: | 24 ft stock lengths of extruded aluminum storefront material |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | No |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Once a month |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 6-10% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 6-10% |
| Material savings per month: | Less than $100 |
| Additional benefits from 1DCutX: | We use to optimize on paper, but this programs save hours of time. |
| Industry: | Metal Fabrication |
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| Company Size: | 11-50 Employers |
| Cutting Material: | Metal tubing |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | Yes |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Once a day |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 6-10% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 1-5% |
| Material savings per month: | From $500 to $1,000 |
| 1DCutX plans usage: | 1. The 1D_matrix is copied to the stock&parts sheet. 2. Expanded from item cut pieces to total project cut pieces and sorted. 3. The 1D_report utilization number copied to the s&p sheet and converted to "scrap %" and part of this page printed and provided to the operator. 4. Operator makes his marks during cutting and returns this "form" back to the office. |
| Industry: | Construction (Residential) |
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| Company Size: | Less than 10 employers |
| Cutting Material: | Wood for residential houses |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | Yes |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Once a month |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 11-25% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 6-10% |
| Material savings per month: | From $1,000 to $2,000 |
| Additional benefits from 1DCutX: | Fast mass list calculation and ordering form for whole seller. |
| Industry: | Glass and Glazing |
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| Company Size: | 11-50 Employers |
| Cutting Material: | Window Framing |
| Keep track of inventory in Excel: | No |
| How often use 1DCutX: | Once a week |
| Material waste before 1DCutX: | 26-40% |
| Material waste with 1DCutX: | 11-25% |
| Material savings per month: | From $1,000 to $2,000 |