Patent ID: 7107233

Claim:
A scrap reduction procedure comprising: providing a repository for collecting information on materials, sizes and thicknesses available by first fabrication parties; providing a repository for collecting information on materials, sizes and thickness needs of second user parties; providing a means for communicating said materials, sizes, and thicknesses available to said second user parties and said materials, sizes, and thicknesses needed to said first fabrication parties to each other; providing a means for receiving responses to said materials, sizes, thicknesses available from said first fabrication parties and said materials, sizes, thicknesses needed by said second user parties; communicating said responses to an appropriate said first party or said second party; reducing scrap by determining said first fabrication parties unused blank material and making that remaining unused blank material available to said second user parties for fabricating said second user parties product needs negotiating agreements between said first parties and said second parties for offers made, and processing offers from said first parties to perform work for said second parties; fabricating said first fabricators needs and said second user parties needs in one continuous operation.