Start Production
Explanation
This activity is used to register that production has started on one or several shop order operations. It is
possible to register both labor and machine time.
To start production from Shop Floor Workbench select the operation(s) to start and
click Start Production. You can also select the operation in Shop Floor
Workbench, click Operation Guide and then click Start
Production.
In Start Production dialog:
- To register start of production for machine, enable the Machine Time option and select the
resource to start time for.
- To register start of production for labor, enable the Labor Time option and either enter the
crew size (anonymous mode), or the employee(s) in the Employees list (employee mode) to start
time for. When reporting as a team, the employees currently in the team will be displayed and may not be
changed.
- Operations connected to an operation block are expected to be started together. You are still allowed to
start them individually, but a warning will be given.
To start setup from the Time Clock client:
- Click Start Production and enter the Employee or Team.
- Enter the Operation to start time for.
- If machine runtime exists for the operation, Machine Time will be automatically set to Yes. Set
it to No if you do not want to start machine.
- Choose the resource on which the operation will be performed in the Resource.
- If the existing clockings for the employee should be stopped, select Yes in Stop Employee
Clockings. The default value is set based on the value of Allow Concurrent Operations for the employee
on the Shop Floor Employees page.
- Note: Depending on the Time Clock configuration, some of these fields may be automatically filled with
default data and thereby the fields may be disabled or unavailable for editing.
- From time clock, you can start production for only one operation at a time.
Prerequisites
- The status of the operation is not Planned or Closed.
- The status of the shop order should not be Parked.
- To start setup from the Shop Floor Workbench page, production cannot already be
ongoing for the operation.
- To start labor time, a labor class must be connected to the shop order operation.
- To start machine time, a valid resource must exist on the work center.
- To start multiple operations, they must belong to the same work center.
- If Reporting Mode has been set to Employee Reporting on the used site at least one
Employee must be entered in order to report labor time.
- If an employee qualification requirement exists for the operation, and the qualification check for the site
is mandatory, then the reporting employee(s) must have those qualifications.
- To report from time clock, employee should be a time clock user. When reporting as a team, all the employees
in the team should be time clock users.
- If the employee has a valid work schedule for time and attendance reporting, the employee must be clocked in
for the day.
System Effects
- If the Machine Time option has been enabled, a machine clocking will be created and the start time
recorded on it.
- If the Labor Time option has been enabled, one labor clocking will be created for each employee that
has been entered in the Employees section. In anonymous mode one labor clocking will be created with the
value provided in the Crew Size field recorded on it.
- The start time will be recorded on the created clocking record(s). The clockings can be viewed in the
Clockings tab.
- The status of the operation is set to In Process.
- If an ongoing setup activity exists, it will be stopped.
- If the employee or team is running an indirect job, this will be stopped.
- If the employee or team is running other operation(s), and the Allow Concurrent Operations
field on Shop Floor Employees or Shop Floor Teams page is set
to No, these operation(s) will be stopped.
- If the work center resource has an ongoing downtime clocking, this will be stopped.
- If a machine operation clocking is already running on the resource where this one is started and the
Concurrent Operations drop-down on the Work Center page is set to Not Allowed, this
machine clocking will be stopped.
- The selected resource will be set as the preferred resource for the operation.
- If multiple operations were selected and started simultaneously they will either be started in sequence
(share the same clocking sequence), or in parallel (individual clocking sequences) depending on the Concurrent
Operations value on the Work Center page.
- If multiple operations are started in parallel and the site has been configured to report labor anonymously,
the value in the Crew Size field will be distributed among the generated labor clockings based
on the planned crew size of the operations.