Give every part and sub-assembly an ordered list of operations, tied to the faces they work, with hours and a lead time.
Give every part and sub-assembly you make a route: the ordered operations that turn a blank into the finished part. CUTL adds cutting and bending by itself, you add the rest from your own operations and machines, and a technologist approves it. The route feeds the price, the lead time, your ERP and the route card for the shop floor.
Click faces of the part and add them to the operation that works them. A steps strip shows the part as it grows.
Every line of the route can point at the faces it works on: the holes for drilling, the contour for cutting. Holes already in the part's PMI come ready to add in one click. A strip under the model walks the route step by step and shows the part as it is at each one, with the faces being worked in orange. Copy a route from another position or apply one of your templates, and reorder lines by dragging.
Hours add up per equipment type for the whole order, and Ready in estimates the working days, outside services included.
Times come from your operations dictionary, typed or worked out from the part's geometry with a formula such as 0.6 × holes. Rates come from the machine or the equipment type, so every line has a cost, and outside services such as galvanising carry a vendor, a price and a lead time. Ready in takes the longest equipment queue, from each type's hours per week, plus the longest outside-service lead time. It is an estimate, not a shop schedule.
A technologist approves and freezes the route. Export to your ERP as JSON or XML, or print route cards for the shop.
Technologists keep your standard routes as templates and apply them by rule to many positions at once. Approving freezes the operations, times and faces, while rates stay live. The ERP export carries the multi-level bill of materials, the routes, blanks and costing, with your ERP codes. The route card PDF comes as a shop traveller or a GOST 3.1118 card, with a picture of the model at every step.
Give every part and sub-assembly you make a route: the ordered operations that turn a blank into the finished part. CUTL adds cutting and bending by itself, you add the rest from your own operations and machines, and a technologist approves it. The route feeds the price, the lead time, your ERP and the route card for the shop floor.