Tracking the Manufacture of Custom Kitchen Cabinets

The KnarrTek Job and Materials Tracking (JMTS) software can track the manufacture of custom kitchen cabinets using barcode tracking and mobile computer technology.

JMTS tracks:

• The receipt and put-away in a stock room of raw materials such as laminated sheets of ply and other board, as well as components such as knobs and hinges.
• The sawing of the sheets of raw materials into many different parts of many different sizes for many different jobs and cabinets.
• The milling, drilling, and doweling of the parts and their assembly into finished cabinets.
• The packing and shipping of finished parts and their shipment to site.

JMTS can import bills of materials for the cabinets and for each overall job from Computer Aided Design (CAD) programs and then automatically creates work orders from these. JMTS then uses these work orders to track and display the real-time status of all the parts for each job, including which trolley or cart work-in-process parts are located on.

With the TAG option, JMTS can automatically print out tracking barcodes for each of the parts as they come off the saw and then use these tracking barcodes to track the parts through the machining operations and their use in assembling the cabinets.

JMTS can also print out tracking barcodes for each cabinet and for the boxes into which they are packed. These barcodes are then scanned to record loading the parts on a truck for delivery to site thus helping ensure that the correct parts get assembled into each customer's cabinets and that the correct cabinets and needed installation parts get shipped to site.