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BILL OF MATERIALS AND LABOR

A detailed bill of materials list for an item can be retrieved at any time by simply right clicking on the desired elevation and choosing the "bill of materials" option from the pop up menu.

D-CALC^Ž FACADE has a "rules based" configuration engine with the ability to query the properties of the parametric model being created. This allows even the most complex products to be configured while at the same time, ensuring a very accurate bill of materials, labor costs and times.

The Bill of Materials includes a list of extrusions with cutting sizes, cutting angles & finish, hardware, gaskets, and a glass with all cutting sizes. The cost information per item and per job is also available as well as labor costs.

D-CALC^Ž FACADE^TM provides a wide range of reports on material requirements and optimized cutting reports. All production reports and customer documents are user definable. Data can be accessed through third-party reporting tools, spreadsheets, and databases. Cut lists include: cutting angles, complex multi-plane cutting angles, radii for bending, detailed die drawings, detailed machining operations, location of fabrication operations along all axes of the extrusion, fabrication time, assembly time, labor cost, finishing cost, and shipping cost.

An automatic data exchange between D-CALC^Ž FACADE^TM and stand-alone programs will enable constant and effective data maintenance and exchange of the bill of materials.

Labor can be setup to accommodate any aspect of the manufacturing process. Labor can be defined by "Work Centers" with "Operations" per work center. Properties of the frame can be used with formulas to accommodate costing and times ensuring complete labor costing as well as labor times for scheduling.

All properties of the labor formulas are tied directly back to the parametric model of the product. Therefore, if any of the properties of the window changes that could affect labor, i.e. size, the labor is automatically recalculated.

Labor information and times can be transferred to scheduling programs, project management programs, spreadsheets, other database applications or any other application that can accept a ASCII flat file or via the programs ODBC driver.