Estimating Fundamentals
This unit is multiplied against our time standards to determine cost.
What is Budgeted Hourly Rate (BHR)
This unit of measurement is used to determine the sheets per lift on the guillotine cutter.
What is stock caliper?
A print method that saves plates and setup time
What is work and turn?
The tooling used on a diecutting press.
What is a Steel Rule Die (SRD)
The number of sheets weighed to determine basis weight
What is 500?
Virtually all machines require some expensive _______ to setup.
What is M/R Material?
They increase our cutting speeds and BHR.
What are helpers?
The offset equivalent to duplexing.
What is perfecting?
The most accurate method of costing SRD's.
Cost Centered Pricing
The calculated weight of a standard sized sheet.
What is equivalent weight?
The person responsible for gathering the specifications of a project.
What is the salesperson?
A unique cost consideration for machines with bins.
What is replenishment/stoppage time?
The number of plates necessary for a 4/4 S/W order.
What is 8?
The variables necessary to determine the setup costing on a glue folder.
What are the number of folds and glue spots.
What is Broken Carton pricing?
A particular machine or closely related manufacturing tasks.
What is a cost centre?
What we must do to our sheets per lift calculation if we get a pesky decimal value
What is round down?
Based on the amount of ink colours or printing units used; whichever is higher.
What is washup time?
The reason we ship most new boxes flat.
What are shipping costs?
This type of paper is slippery and hard to work with.
What are coated stocks?
The estimator is responsible for generating this summary of production tasks.
What is the Preliminary Production Plan?
The units that our cutting hours are based off of.
What is cuts per hour?
The variable that changes the price of different colours of ink.
What is pigment?
The type of diecutting press that allows for some level of in-line stripping.
What is an automated diecutting press?
The sheet size that all metric papers are weighed against.
What is A0?