Manufacturing preparation training curriculum

Detailed curriculum of the course

First lesson:

• Introduction to material groups
• Emphasis on specific and fictitious materials and their importance
• Role of fictitious materials
• Introduction to factory material types
• Adding new material types (pricing and multipliers)
• Setting specific materials within material types (unit prices and color codes)
• Exporting existing material types in Excel format
• Editing the exported file in Excel
• Re-importing the modified Excel file into the program
• Uploading an Excel price list from an external source into the program
  
  

Second lesson:

• Understanding the color codes of textures set in the color designer and their relation to specific materials
• Possibly adding new colors or textures to the color designer with a color code
• Assigning the color code given in the color designer to each item number of specific materials
• For simplicity, copying color codes into the exported Excel table
• Re-importing the Excel file to easily insert color codes without window switching
• Impact of material multipliers on production preparation and quotes
• Adding, setting, and pricing edge-banding materials
• Pricing fittings, labor costs, and accessories
  
  

Third lesson:

• Setting element lists in the manufacturing preparation section, creating custom schemes
• Setting material exchanges (expanding existing exchanges)
• Creating new material exchange options
• Creating a new main group for material exchange for custom materials or fittings
• Creating new selection options for custom materials and fittings according to specific materials
• Pricing worktops and linear elements
• Setting pricing in the furniture database for production preparation
  
  

Fourth lesson:

• Creating new priceable basic elements for insertion into the designer
• Adding and pricing custom accessories (dowels, lamellos, screws, special fittings)
• Adding and pricing custom lift-up fittings like Aventos with prices and item numbers
• Creating attachments from custom fittings and accessories for furniture elements
• Personalizing the quote generator by creating custom schemes
• Demonstrating the production preparation section and quote generation on a specific plan
• Creating a cutting plan and statistics based on the list obtained from production preparation
  
  

Fifth lesson:

• Introducing our new program, PipShow, through a specific plan
• Demonstrating the new features and explaining how to use the program
• Setting lights, textures, and shadows, inserting custom models
• Duplicating existing models
• Placing and setting auxiliary lights and light sources
• Choosing a panorama background
• Specifying output format, image size, and location
• Saving locally and to the cloud
• Creating a reference from cloud storage with a viewer program that can be sent to clients
• Reopening completed plans directly from Piper program and PipShow without export
• Creating high-resolution images from the completed model

The training can be ordered at: https://piper.hu/megrendeles/

Keywords: #production preparation training