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.