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Lab talk, the good, the bad, and the ugly
Dental-CAM
Remill Management
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<blockquote data-quote="SmartLabJon" data-source="post: 240270" data-attributes="member: 14947"><p>We've had a lot of remills creep up here recently. No one would track them so no one was the wiser. Then all of sudden your cost for consumables goes up but your billable output does not. I just ended up tracking them myself by hand. Then when I had a department meeting with the CAD/CAM department and showed them on paper, the remills dropped dramatically. Imagine that! Some employees don't realize the cost and say "ah just remill it, no big deal". The time and material adds up every time. I also personally do a quick QC in the morning of everything that is sintered overnight. It's amazing what I catch sometimes, but at least it's caught then and not a day or two later when it is being fit or stained. I trust our people too (you can't micromanage everyone!) but just the fact that they know you are watching does a whole lot of good. </p><p></p><p>In regards to the cause of remills (in my case however),I would say that a machine "error" was the cause less than 1% of the time, the other 99% is human error. Examples would be incorrect insertion directions, wrong margins, not enforcing the correct thickness, not milling out the right material (not following the rx) or milling something 4 axis that should have been 5 axis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SmartLabJon, post: 240270, member: 14947"] We've had a lot of remills creep up here recently. No one would track them so no one was the wiser. Then all of sudden your cost for consumables goes up but your billable output does not. I just ended up tracking them myself by hand. Then when I had a department meeting with the CAD/CAM department and showed them on paper, the remills dropped dramatically. Imagine that! Some employees don't realize the cost and say "ah just remill it, no big deal". The time and material adds up every time. I also personally do a quick QC in the morning of everything that is sintered overnight. It's amazing what I catch sometimes, but at least it's caught then and not a day or two later when it is being fit or stained. I trust our people too (you can't micromanage everyone!) but just the fact that they know you are watching does a whole lot of good. In regards to the cause of remills (in my case however),I would say that a machine "error" was the cause less than 1% of the time, the other 99% is human error. Examples would be incorrect insertion directions, wrong margins, not enforcing the correct thickness, not milling out the right material (not following the rx) or milling something 4 axis that should have been 5 axis. [/QUOTE]
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