how to design spreadsheets to collect data and display the total material used in a plating department

I'm posting here because I think may plan will need vba. I've tried
developing in Access, but the boss wants excel. I've looked for code
to use for looping through spreadsheets, but I haven't found an idea
yet. I don't know how to write the code for my plan.
Details:
We're using Excel 2003 on windows xp.

The boss wants to use excel to summarize material use in our plating
department.

We have several plating codes. Each plating code represents a process
the uses several tanks of differing solutions. Each tank has a code.

The same tank may be used in several processes.

We will determine the weight for each job and assign a load number.

We want to get a total weight of material that passed through each
tank and receive a notice when the total reaches 200 pounds.

The boss wants the administrator to enter the weight for each load
daily. There may be more than one load per day. Then he wants the
spreadsheet to add that weight to each of the tanks used in that
specific plating code.

Then he wants a summary that shows the total weight for all tanks.

There are several tanks, I haven't been able to determine the total
quantity of tanks yet. Here's a partial list of Tank names:

A20,A17,A18,A19,B11,B12,B13,B14,B19,B21,B22,B23,B24,B25,B27,B28,B29,B30,B31,B32,B33,B34,B35,B36,B37,B38,B39,B40,B42,B43,B44,B45,B46,B47,B48,B49,B50,B51,B52,B53,B54,B55,B60,B61,B62,B63,B65,B66,B67,C1,C10,C11,C12,C13,C16,C17,C19,C2,C20,C21,C27,C3,C4,C5,C6,C7,C8,C9

Here's a partial list of plating codes:

10,10A,24,25,30,30A,30B,48,87,90,99

Here's a partial list of tanks used in plating codes:

10A
B35 B36 B37 B38 B39 B40 B21 C10

24
B27 B28 B29 B30 B31 B32 B33 B34 B44 B46 B45 B47 B48 B49 C16 B50 C17
B51 C19 B52 C20 B53 C21 B54 B55 C11 C12 C13 C10 B19

30
B35 B36 B37 B60 B61 B62 B63
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Proposed plan:

So what feedback do you have for the following plan?

Each spreadsheet in the workbook represents activity for one plating
code.

Populate the column headers with the tank names used in that plating
code's process.

Include a column for date and a column for load number.

The administrator enters the date on the next row in cell A, then
enters the load number in cell B, then the weight in Cell C. The
spreadsheet fills that amount for all the tanks in that process.

After all the jobs are entered for the day. The administrator runs a
macros that loops through the workbook to determine the total for each
tank and put that amount another sheet--the summary sheet which will
have every tank listed in the header column.

On 21/03/2012 10:39 AM, Dan Dungan wrote:

I'm posting here because I think may plan will need vba. I've tried
developing in Access, but the boss wants excel. I've looked for code
to use for looping through spreadsheets, but I haven't found an idea
yet. I don't know how to write the code for my plan.

Details:
We're using Excel 2003 on windows xp.

The boss wants to use excel to summarize material use in our plating
department.

We have several plating codes. Each plating code represents a process
the uses several tanks of differing solutions. Each tank has a code.

The same tank may be used in several processes.

We will determine the weight for each job and assign a load number.

We want to get a total weight of material that passed through each
tank and receive a notice when the total reaches 200 pounds.

The boss wants the administrator to enter the weight for each load
daily. There may be more than one load per day. Then he wants the
spreadsheet to add that weight to each of the tanks used in that
specific plating code.

Then he wants a summary that shows the total weight for all tanks.

There are several tanks, I haven't been able to determine the total
quantity of tanks yet. Here's a partial list of Tank names:

A20,A17,A18,A19,B11,B12,B13,B14,B19,B21,B22,B23,B24,B25,B27,B28,B29,B30,B31,B32,B33,B34,B35,B36,B37,B38,B39,B40,B42,B43,B44,B45,B46,B47,B48,B49,B50,B51,B52,B53,B54,B55,B60,B61,B62,B63,B65,B66,B67,C1,C10,C11,C12,C13,C16,C17,C19,C2,C20,C21,C27,C3,C4,C5,C6,C7,C8,C9


Here's a partial list of plating codes:

10,10A,24,25,30,30A,30B,48,87,90,99

Here's a partial list of tanks used in plating codes:

10A
B35 B36 B37 B38 B39 B40 B21 C10

24
B27 B28 B29 B30 B31 B32 B33 B34 B44 B46 B45 B47 B48 B49 C16 B50 C17
B51 C19 B52 C20 B53 C21 B54 B55 C11 C12 C13 C10 B19

30
B35 B36 B37 B60 B61 B62 B63
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Proposed plan:

So what feedback do you have for the following plan?

Each spreadsheet in the workbook represents activity for one plating
code.

Populate the column headers with the tank names used in that plating
code's process.

Include a column for date and a column for load number.

The administrator enters the date on the next row in cell A, then
enters the load number in cell B, then the weight in Cell C. The
spreadsheet fills that amount for all the tanks in that process.

After all the jobs are entered for the day. The administrator runs a
macros that loops through the workbook to determine the total for each
tank and put that amount another sheet--the summary sheet which will
have every tank listed in the header column.

Hi

I shouldn't imagine you would require a workbook for each Job Code, when
it could be handle in one using a few worksheets. This makes more sense
as it doesn't require external linking.

You could Name the workbook 2011-2012 depending on how you structure
your financial year, then use 12 sheets to represent each month of the
year, then input the data directly for each month, using summary sheets
and graphs to display any trends.

Each job's material composition could be stored in a Table Array broken
down to a 1 pound amount so that it can be multiplied by whatever weight
is being processed, the actual Job Code could be stored, and referenced
Via Data Validation Dropdown; Or use the OnChange(Target/Intersect) to
trigger the values to be inserted from the Table into the appropriate
cells.

considerations:

My brief exposure the Plating, ie Chrome, way back in 1978 [when I was
young, dumb, indestructible & had a massive head of hair...lol], if I
recall the major consumed component of it was Nickel Chips and Chromium
Solution, that said there were other processes for cleaning prior to
that process that escapes me.

Moving on, how does your boss intend to deal with any waste from
imperfect finishing, by that I mean will you be applying a -/+ % factor
to allow for this issue, it may not be an obvious short-term
consideration, but over time ( re-processing imperfects ) and using your
intended structure/purpose for the workbook would mean the formula for
maintaining a pseudo "Just-In-Time" process of materials ordering would
lead to a shortfall down the road.

I am currently on holidays and have some time spare in which I could put
some thought into a workbook. I will let you know when I have something
worth conveying to you.

HTH
Mick.

I'm posting here because I think may plan will need vba. I've tried
developing in Access, but the boss wants excel.

I've looked for code
to use for looping through spreadsheets, but I haven't found an idea
yet. I don't know how to write the code for my plan.
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Details:
We're using Excel 2003 on windows xp.

The boss wants to use excel to summarize material use in our plating
department.

We have several plating codes. Each plating code represents a process
the uses several tanks of differing solutions. Each tank has a code.

The same tank may be used in several processes.

We will determine the weight for each job and assign a load number.

We want to get a total weight of material that passed through each
tank and receive a notice when the total reaches 200 pounds.

The boss wants the administrator to enter the weight for each load
daily. There may be more than one load per day. Then he wants the
spreadsheet to add that weight to each of the tanks used in that
specific plating code.

Then he wants a summary that shows the total weight for all tanks.

There are several tanks, I haven't been able to determine the total
quantity of tanks yet. Here's a partial list of Tank names:

A20,A17,A18,A19,B11,B12,B13,B14,B19,B21,B22,B23,B24,B25,B27,B28,B29,B30,B
31,B32,B33,B34,B35,B36,B37,B38,B39,B40,B42,B43,B44,B45,B46,B47,B48,B49,B5
0,B51,B52,B53,B54,B55,B60,B61,B62,B63,B65,B66,B67,C1,C10,C11,C12,C13,C16,
C17,C19,C2,C20,C21,C27,C3,C4,C5,C6,C7,C8,C9

Here's a partial list of plating codes:

10,10A,24,25,30,30A,30B,48,87,90,99

Here's a partial list of tanks used in plating codes:

10A
B35 B36 B37 B38 B39 B40 B21 C10

24
B27 B28 B29 B30 B31 B32 B33 B34 B44
B46 B45 B47 B48 B49 C16 B50 C17
B51 C19 B52 C20 B53 C21 B54 B55
C11 C12 C13 C10 B19

30
B35 B36 B37 B60 B61 B62 B63
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Proposed plan:

So what feedback do you have for the following plan?

Each spreadsheet in the workbook represents activity for one plating
code.

Populate the column headers with the tank names used in that plating
code's process.

Include a column for date and a column for load number.

The administrator enters the date on the next row in cell A, then
enters the load number in cell B, then the weight in Cell C. The
spreadsheet fills that amount for all the tanks in that process.

After all the jobs are entered for the day. The administrator runs a
macros that loops through the workbook to determine the total for each
tank and put that amount another sheet--the summary sheet which will
have every tank listed in the header column.

I'm posting here because I think may plan will need vba. I've tried
developing in Access, but the boss wants excel. I've looked for code
to use for looping through spreadsheets, but I haven't found an idea
yet. I don't know how to write the code for my plan.
Details:
We're using Excel 2003 on windows xp.

The boss wants to use excel to summarize material use in our plating
department.

We have several plating codes. Each plating code represents a process
the uses several tanks of differing solutions. Each tank has a code.

The same tank may be used in several processes.

We will determine the weight for each job and assign a load number.

We want to get a total weight of material that passed through each
tank and receive a notice when the total reaches 200 pounds.

The boss wants the administrator to enter the weight for each load
daily. There may be more than one load per day. Then he wants the
spreadsheet to add that weight to each of the tanks used in that
specific plating code.

Then he wants a summary that shows the total weight for all tanks.

There are several tanks, I haven't been able to determine the total
quantity of tanks yet. Here's a partial list of Tank names:

A20,A17,A18,A19,B11,B12,B13,B14,B19,B21,B22,B23,B24,B25,B27,B28,B29,B30,B31,B32,B33,B34,B35,B36,B37,B38,B39,B40,B42,B43,B44,B45,B46,B47,B48,B49,B50,B51,B52,B53,B54,B55,B60,B61,B62,B63,B65,B66,B67,C1,C10,C11,C12,C13,C16,C17,C19,C2,C20,C21,C27,C3,C4,C5,C6,C7,C8,C9

Here's a partial list of plating codes:

10,10A,24,25,30,30A,30B,48,87,90,99

Here's a partial list of tanks used in plating codes:

10A
B35 B36 B37 B38 B39 B40 B21 C10

24
B27 B28 B29 B30 B31 B32 B33 B34 B44 B46 B45 B47 B48 B49 C16 B50 C17
B51 C19 B52 C20 B53 C21 B54 B55 C11 C12 C13 C10 B19

30
B35 B36 B37 B60 B61 B62 B63
-

Proposed plan:

So what feedback do you have for the following plan?

Each spreadsheet in the workbook represents activity for one plating
code.

Populate the column headers with the tank names used in that plating
code's process.

Include a column for date and a column for load number.

The administrator enters the date on the next row in cell A, then
enters the load number in cell B, then the weight in Cell C. The
spreadsheet fills that amount for all the tanks in that process.

After all the jobs are entered for the day. The administrator runs a
macros that loops through the workbook to determine the total for each
tank and put that amount another sheet--the summary sheet which will
have every tank listed in the header column.