Customer Story: Ford Meter Box

Customer Story: Ford Meter Box

The Ford Meter Box Company is headquartered in Wabash, Indiana. There they operate a brass foundry and manufacture items including water meter setting equipment, valves, couplings and meter boxes. They also have a manufacturing facility in Pell City, Alabama, that produces pipe tapping sleeves, repair clamps, pipe restraints and other pipe products.

Ford products are sold worldwide through a network of distributors. Still privately held, Ford Meter Box is, to this day, owned by descendants of Mr. Edwin Ford.

Company Challenges

  • Numerous groups of scheduled jobs run multiple times per day(Sales Order movement)
  • Changes to scheduled jobs require hours of CNC time & increase opportunities for error
  • Changing a job from ‘Not Active’ to ‘Active’ submitted many instances
  • Lacked notification of issues (long running jobs, scheduler failure, etc)
  • Limitations with scheduling options, reporting & dependencies

Smart Scheduler Solution

  • Use of Streams enabled the creation of a single instance for a group of jobs (Sales Order Movement) and the ability to manage that single instance
  • Recurrence options for Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Workday, or other logic
  • Purge Scheduled Jobs allows CNCs to remove all scheduled jobs in a stream at once
  • Events offer a number of options for actions at various states of initialization, execution & completion of a job or stream
  • Events at Stream Level – Send an email to interested party when stream completes normally/abnormally
  • Events at Job Level – Can email or place output into network drive
  • Option to increment variable each time a job completes normally
  • Dependencies can be defined between streams or jobs within a stream
  • Single Dependency – Single job/stream is dependent on only one other stream
  • Multi-Dependency – may be two or more parent streams that must complete before child will execute
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