DC-A  Enter Labor/Production

Purpose of Program

Direct labor employees will use this program to clock in and out of work order sequences.  With this program they will be recording both time (labor and setup) and parts produced and scrapped.  If you only want to record parts produced, use DC-B  Enter Production Only.  If you only want to record labor time, use DC-C  Enter Labor Only.

Normally this program is loaded and left on-screen the entire day.  The employee is given a series of questions to answer.  Entries can be made via numeric keypad or bar code scanner.

The employee will be asked for his employee number, the work order, the sequence, whether he is clocking in or reporting labor or setup (clocking out), how many parts were made, how many parts scrapped and, depending on defaults, a scrap code, how many are being sent to rework and a QC code for the rework.

Employees can clock in to work orders within buffer periods prior to and after the shift ends so as to avoid having everyone requiring access to the computer when the shift begins and ends.  Buffer periods are defined in SD-F  Data Collection Defaults.  Actual job costing will not begin until the shift starts, and will stop precisely when the shift ends.  You can also define lunch and breaks so that job costing automatically stops without employees having to clock out and back in.

If Employee Shift Start/Stop is enabled, then the first entry of the day will also clock in the shift for the day and at the end of the day when the employee clocks out the shift, all work orders will also be clocked out.

General Program Operation

Before using this program, you must have your shifts defined in SD-F  Data Collection Defaults.  In that program you can also specify whether you want full screen mode (recommended) and whether you allow employees to be clocked into multiple work orders at the same time.  You can also control whether an individual employee can clock into multiple work orders if they are different than the system setting by giving them an individual setting in SM-G Enter Employees.  You can also set the default to control whether labor and quantity complete posting occurs automatically in real time as employees clock out and report time and parts complete or if the data is reviewed by a supervisor and batch posted.

Normally this program would be loaded by a supervisory person at the beginning of the day and left on screen all day.

Whenever an entry is to be made, you are first prompted for your employee number.  If the Shift Start/Stop is enabled in the defaults, the program will automatically start the shift when the first work order of the day is clocked into.  Alternatively, you can start the shift for payroll purposes by clicking the Shift Start/Stop button and entering the employee number if you have not yet been assigned a work order to clock into.

You can use the keypad to enter the number or scan your bar coded employee ticket (printed through DC-F  Print Employee Tickets).  It must be a valid employee number from the employee file (SM-G  Enter Employees).  Your name will be displayed along with any work orders you are currently clocked into and the cursor will advance to the next field to define the action to be performed.

If you choose Clock In, you are asked to enter the work order number.  You may do so via keypad entry or you can scan a bar coded shop traveler (printed through WO-C  Print Travelers) or a bar coded labor ticket printed through DC-E  Print Labor Tickets).  The work order number must be for a valid, status R (Released) or I (Indirect) work order.  The item number of the item being manufactured is displayed and the cursor advances to the Sequence.

Next you are asked to enter the sequence number (operation), which can be entered via keypad or scanning a bar coded shop traveler or labor ticket.  The sequence description is displayed and you are asked if you are clocking into Run or Setup (if the default to enter that at clock in is turned on) and finally prompted to save he information.

If you choose Clock Out, you can select a work order operation from the list, enter the quantity of good parts made, scrap or rework if any, and save the information.