The shop tickets are used by shear operators to blank out the pieces needed for each item.

• A. Yes
• B. No
• C. Sometimes
• D. Not used

Answer: (B)

Shop tickets serve as job instructions that tell the operator which parts to cut, how many, and with what specs. They guide setup and the sequence of work, but they don’t perform the blanking action themselves. The actual blanking—the cutting to produce the raw piece—is done by the shear operation based on those instructions. So claiming that shop tickets are used to blank out the pieces is not accurate; the tickets communicate what needs to be produced, while the blanking is the machine’s task.