Manufacturing · Daily operations · 8 min read

Run work orders on the shop floor

Start, pause, complete and block operations from the Shop Floor tablet screen or the order record.

Before you begin

• The order is released, so its work orders exist and the first one is Ready.
• You hold manufacturing.workorder.view to see the Shop Floor and manufacturing.workorder.execute to press the buttons. Recording scrap needs manufacturing.scrap.record.

Steps

Open your work centre

1. Go to Manufacturing > Manufacturing > Shop Floor.
2. Choose the Work Center and your Operator (employee or badge). Both are remembered on this tablet.
3. Or type or scan into the scan box: a work order number, an MO number (it opens its first Ready, running or paused work order), or a work centre code.
4. The queue shows up to 50 work orders, running ones first, then by planned start.

Do the job

1. Select the job. Read Instructions, the Materials of this operation and any Quality Checks.
2. Click Start. The work order and the order go In Progress.
3. To stop, click Pause and choose a downtime reason such as "Machine breakdown". With a reason it is logged as downtime; without one it is a plain pause. Click Resume to continue.
4. To record a defect, click Record Scrap, enter the quantity (default 1), choose a reason and save. Save stays disabled until you choose a reason.
5. When finished, click Complete and enter Good Qty, Rejected Qty and, if you are not using the clock, the Minutes worked. On the last operation also enter the Lot.

From the order record

The Work Orders tab of an order has a row menu with Start, Pause, Resume, Block, Unblock and Complete. Block asks for a reason ("Why is it blocked?"); Unblock returns it to Paused if it had started. Manufacturing > Work Orders lists every operation of released orders.

What happens next

• Time is costed. On completion the system books labour (hours x work centre labour rate), machine (hours x machine rate) and overhead (a percentage of those two). Example: Cutting completed with 150 minutes at labour AED 45 and machine AED 30: labour 2.5 x 45 = 112.50, machine 2.5 x 30 = 75.00, overhead 10 % x 187.50 = 18.75.
• Downtime counts labour only; machine and overhead are not costed for it. It feeds the Downtime report.
• Next operation. When an operation completes, the one that depends on it becomes Ready.
• Last operation. Completing it registers the good quantity as production and receives it into stock. Any rejected quantity entered on the Shop Floor is always sent to rework.
• Retries are safe. If the network is slow and you press Complete twice, only one completion, one receipt and one cost entry result.

Good to know

• Dependencies are enforced: 'Cutting (WO-...) has to finish first.'
• A blocking quality check stops completion of its operation: 'Record the quality checks of this operation first: <check name>'.
• Starting on a down or archived work centre, or with a resource that is not active, is refused at release.
• Shop Floor shows nothing if the work centre has no released work. Pick another centre or ask the planner.
• Instructions fall back to the order's Shop Floor Instruction note when the operation has none.