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COMMON CUT or COMBINE CUT SAVINGS?

Although Combine Cutting can save more inches of cutting it is not always possible to use Combine Cutting.  P.E.P.’s Automatic nesting logic is smart enough to common cut when combine cutting is not appropriate. - automatically!

Whether a job requires 10 parts or a 100 parts, the common cutting saving derived from cutting two geometry in a single pass are:

 

#	Type of Part	Part Example	Distance Calculation	Cutter Path Savings
1	All Squares	10 x 10	40”x2”-10”	12.5 %
2	10 x 20 rectangle	10 x 20	60”x2”-20”	16.6 %
3	2   x 20 rectangle	2 x 20	44”x2”-20”	22.7 %

 

 

COMBINE CUTTING SAVINGS

The COMBINE cutting savings derived from cutting the same part quantities ( i.e. 10 parts ) and making one common cut between both the top and bottom of multiple parts is:

 

#	Type of Part	Part Example	Distance Calculation	Cutter Path Savings
4	All Squares	10 x 10	40”x2”-10”	22.0 %
5	10 x 20 rectangle	10 x 20	60”x2”-20”	30.0 %
6	2   x 20 rectangle	2 x 20	44”x2”-20”	40.9 %

 

 

DO THE MATH

We don’t know how much common and combine cutting you are doing now, however, if your software does not output the nests correctly and you missed as little as 8 hours of common and combine cutting per week, per machine, your software could cost you an additional 10 weeks of machine time per machine each year.  The table below shows the MINIMUM you would have lost per machine.

 

#	Method	Machine time	# of Wks.	Years	Distance Saved	Machine Cost	Lost Co. Income Low & High
1	Common Cut	8 hr./wk	50	5	12.5 % to 22.7 %	$100./hr.	$25K to $45.4K
2	Combine Cut	8 hr./wk	50	5	22.0 % to 40.9 %	$100./hr.	$44K to $81.8K

 

 Please recognize that PEP does both common and combine cutting automatically and that the savings shown in the right column do not take into account any engineering or programming savings.  The numbers in blue are the increased machine savings derived by rotating parts for ONE machine cutting ONE shift a day!

 

If you engineering staff is manually rotating parts and manually creating the cutter path then the savings would be more than twice what you see.

 

If you are not common cutting and combine cutting at all, then you could be losing more than twice what the amount displayed in the table shows.

 

The PEP software is the ONLY software which will AUTOMATICALLY analyze each part and then automatically nest the parts to take advantage of COMMON & COMBINE cutting technology.

 

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