Enter Shop Floor Employee
Explanation
This activity is used to set up an existing employee as a shop floor employee. Employees defined here can report
shop order operations and indirect time from Shop Floor Workbench and Time
Clock pages.
- The Time Idle controls after how many seconds the Identification dialog
should automatically appear after the employee has reported from Shop Floor Workbench
page. If the value entered is 0, the idle time will be infinite. If a value is not entered, the site setting will
be used for this employee/team.
- In the Resume Option field, select a suitable value from the drop-down. (When an employee clocks in
using Time Clock, the system resumes operations according to the value selected in
Resume Option field. Only the last stopped operation will be considered. The last operation should also
have the Auto Stopped option enabled).
- If you want the employee to be allowed to report time for other employees, enable Handle Time for
Others.
- If you want the employee to be allowed to report using Shop Floor Workbench page, enable
Workbench User.
- Allow Concurrent Operations controls whether the employee should be allowed to report on multiple
operations at the same time.
- Allow Attendance Auto Clock In controls whether it should be allowed to automatically create an
attendance in clocking for the employee when starting work in shop floor workbench.
Expand the row by clicking the caret down icon to define what site(s) the employee should be allowed to report
on. Below attributes are controlled per site:
- Filter by controls how operations should be populate in Shop Floor
Workbench.
- Filter field is enabled only when Predefined Filter has been selected in
the Filter by drop-down.
- Indirect Job for Diff is used to fill the negative time difference between total reported job hours
and the actual attendance hours of the employee when authorizing the day.
- If the employee is able to report on several sites, right-click then click Set Primary Site for the
site that is to be used as primary.
- Enter a value in the Primary Labor Class field.
Prerequisites
- A labor class must be defined on Manufacturing Labor Class page.
- An employee must be defined in Company/Employees page.
System Effects
- A shop floor employee is created.
- Settings for shop floor reporting are defined by company and site.
- A primary site is set for the employee, to be used when selecting indirect job for diff.
- A primary labor class is set by site, to be used when retrieving costs.
- The person with the employee ID is made a resource in the primary labor class.
- The person with the employee ID is also a resource in the Resource Details,
assigned to the group representing the labor class.