Process and material flow design for vise manufacturing with routing sheet and from to chart

Process design is important steps in production layout planning. At this step, processes and machines for making parts and products are identified. Then these processes and machines are arranged so the flow of materials can be minimized. Vise is a support tool for various manufacturing processes such as cutting, drilling and grinding. Vise consist of various parts such as platform base, body and clamping parts. To make these various parts several manufacturing processes are required. This paper aims to demonstrate the use of routing sheet to identify processes and machines to manufacture vise as well as to show the use of from to chart to arrange those machines in order to minimize material flows. Several machines configurations with minimum material flows are presented.