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Complete a cut and account for the remainder

Record actual output and losses, review the balance and put away the child piece.

Review edition · 25 October 2026 · For Operator, Supervisor

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Finish a cut from the open operation in My work. Before entering the result, compare the physical output with the frozen plan. Keep the parent piece identity, completed blanks and remaining material together until their recorded outcome is clear.

Record what the cut produced

Use the cut-completion flow for that operation. Enter the actual blank count, as-cut blank length, separating cuts and recorded losses, together with any remaining child length. Review the balance preview before confirming. The preview uses the same observations the completion records.

An ordinary result needs the blank length to match the frozen finished length plus processing allowance exactly. Fewer conforming blanks than planned can complete as partial output when the balance checks pass. Producing no blank needs the exception path. Changed blank dimensions, extra output or a residual outside the permitted measurement budget require review. Do not change the observations merely to turn the balance green.

The source measurement uncertainty, per-blank bound, loss bound and possible child's bound contribute to that budget. The published practice also sets a maximum budget. A result inside its arithmetic residual can still need supervision when the overall budget is too large.

Finish the recorded operation

Read the result before moving on. A completed cut consumes the parent and can create one child with its own identity. A remainder no longer than its applicable uncertainty cannot become usable child stock, because it has no positive guaranteed length.

A retained child follows the keep decision and needs its current label and confirmed put-away. Keep the child label on the remainder, rather than retaining the parent's label as a convenient substitute. The lineage connects the records for later enquiry.

Handle a held cut

If the cut is held, leave its material and output identifiable and contact a supervisor. The supervisor can review a corrected source measurement or a truthful exceptional result. That review preserves the frozen plan and held observations; the resulting child is quarantined.

Use Resolve exceptions when the measurements do not reconcile. A second completion request with invented values is not a safe way to clear unfinished work.