Cycle Counting in a Job Shop Environment

Cycle counts in a job shop (custom manufacturing) environment can be the biggest PITA I have dealt with. With many other activities, you can train your people, set them in motion, and after some repetitive lessons and a few trials and errors, things run no their own (for the most part).

With a job shop, materials change so much and so quickly, each cycle count is bound to be different and reconciling those differences is nothing less than paper chasing and detective work. All cycle counts have SOME degree of this but this environment is nuts.

If you have any comments or questions about this, go for it. I did not say it is impossible, just a pain in the A$$.