Annapurna and Solenzara allow additional frame types to be specified outside the four standard. Up to now, the only additional frame type has been "Plastic Cold Frames".
This has been extended to cover Plastic Safety and Metal Safety with additional restrictions on the lens thickness - similar to Nylon Supra.
Friday 31 October 2014
Thursday 30 October 2014
Intelligent Assesment of Supra Thickness
Finished lenses may not have sufficient edge thickness for supra lenses or it could be that a larger diameter finished lens does have the sufficient edge thickness when cut down to the shape.
Currently, finished lenses are not accepted by a simple power check for example to exclude all plus powered lenses.
Annapurna has now been developed to have an additional setting - Intelligent Assessment. The software will estimate the thickness of the finished lens to the diameter. The software will also estimate the thickness of the required lens as shown via the estimate button. If the finished lens diameter is less than the required thickness or exceeds the required thickness by a value then the finished lens is rejected. If there are larger diameters then these are considered in turn.
The value for exceeding the required thickness is also made in the settings - see
Pricing - Surfaced Prices - Supra/Rimless Limits - Intelligent Assessment
This process does depend on having the correct figure for the finished stock lenses. Annapurna will guess this by calculating the thickness of a lens with the largest power over the necessary diameter but this does depend on a guess on the edge thickness of the finished lens.
It is recommended that this setting is turned on and reviewed against real jobs.
Currently, finished lenses are not accepted by a simple power check for example to exclude all plus powered lenses.
Annapurna has now been developed to have an additional setting - Intelligent Assessment. The software will estimate the thickness of the finished lens to the diameter. The software will also estimate the thickness of the required lens as shown via the estimate button. If the finished lens diameter is less than the required thickness or exceeds the required thickness by a value then the finished lens is rejected. If there are larger diameters then these are considered in turn.
The value for exceeding the required thickness is also made in the settings - see
Pricing - Surfaced Prices - Supra/Rimless Limits - Intelligent Assessment
This process does depend on having the correct figure for the finished stock lenses. Annapurna will guess this by calculating the thickness of a lens with the largest power over the necessary diameter but this does depend on a guess on the edge thickness of the finished lens.
It is recommended that this setting is turned on and reviewed against real jobs.
Wednesday 29 October 2014
Frame Hotel
A new feature is being added into Annapurna and comments / suggestions are welcomed.
The traditional approach for glazed work has been to put the frame in a tray and store the tray on a shelf while the lenses are sourced. If a frame is being sent in then this needs to get matched to the lenses so an empty tray can be placed on a shelf.
For larger labs, the space for the shelving and the looking and finding can take some time.
The frame hotel is a solution to this. The frame hotel is a set of racking divided into Aisle/Bay/Shelf/Box/Position.
The frame hotel also means that work can scheduled according to rules set in the software rather than picking up the first job in a pile of work trays.
When an order is entered and the job is a glazed order then a hotel room is allocated and printed on the order. The logistics department are asked to pick the frame and place the frame into the hotel room. The software will know if the frame requires tracing by a flag in the frame file. The lenses are ordered or surfaced. If a frame is taken from stock and lenses are stock then the hotel room can be skipped and logistics will pick and send for production directly. A jobs is also assigned a difficulty level which is based on the frame and the lenses.
When the lenses are available from surfacing then the lenses are also placed in the hotel room. If the lenses are from the supplier then the barcode on the lenses is scanned and a put-away list is produced. While waiting for lenses, frames that need tracing can be taken out of the hotel room, traced and restored to the hotel room. A list of frames needing tracing can be produced.
When the lenses and frames are in the hotel room then the job is available for checkout. The software will produce a list of jobs to pick. The list of jobs to pick is made by following rules e.g. earliest needed with other filters - supra / rimless. These jobs are then sent into glazing.
When the job is sent for assembly the difficulty level can be printed on the job ticket so it is assigned to the correct person.
The traditional approach for glazed work has been to put the frame in a tray and store the tray on a shelf while the lenses are sourced. If a frame is being sent in then this needs to get matched to the lenses so an empty tray can be placed on a shelf.
For larger labs, the space for the shelving and the looking and finding can take some time.
The frame hotel is a solution to this. The frame hotel is a set of racking divided into Aisle/Bay/Shelf/Box/Position.
The frame hotel also means that work can scheduled according to rules set in the software rather than picking up the first job in a pile of work trays.
When an order is entered and the job is a glazed order then a hotel room is allocated and printed on the order. The logistics department are asked to pick the frame and place the frame into the hotel room. The software will know if the frame requires tracing by a flag in the frame file. The lenses are ordered or surfaced. If a frame is taken from stock and lenses are stock then the hotel room can be skipped and logistics will pick and send for production directly. A jobs is also assigned a difficulty level which is based on the frame and the lenses.
When the lenses are available from surfacing then the lenses are also placed in the hotel room. If the lenses are from the supplier then the barcode on the lenses is scanned and a put-away list is produced. While waiting for lenses, frames that need tracing can be taken out of the hotel room, traced and restored to the hotel room. A list of frames needing tracing can be produced.
When the lenses and frames are in the hotel room then the job is available for checkout. The software will produce a list of jobs to pick. The list of jobs to pick is made by following rules e.g. earliest needed with other filters - supra / rimless. These jobs are then sent into glazing.
When the job is sent for assembly the difficulty level can be printed on the job ticket so it is assigned to the correct person.
Monday 20 October 2014
Wednesday 15 October 2014
Annapurna Base Camp
On October 3rd, I reached the Annapurna base camp.
And it was an amazing view of the mountains and well worth the five days walk to get there, even if we did take it the easy way and had a porter to carry our bags.
And it was an amazing view of the mountains and well worth the five days walk to get there, even if we did take it the easy way and had a porter to carry our bags.
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