Department Operation/Inquiry

How to Access:

Main Menu è Distribution è Bill of Material Processor è Maintenance è Department Operation

Or drill-down from another interface

(Figure 10) Department Operation/Inquiry

Application Overview

In WO+, each work center can belong to one department and they can be monitored by department with this interface.  A supervisor can inquire the status of all current laborers and work centers from the selected department and drill down to each work center.  Plus, this interface provides a feature to monitor the status of all work centers status at once no matter what department they belong.  This provides overview information for the whole shop floor.

This interface contains three stages:

1. Enter a department ID or leave it blank to inquire the whole shop.
2. Use an Operator ID and password to sign in.  Use the F1 Key to toggle between scanning mode and typing mode.
3. Inquire or modify information for the department.

If you drill down from another interface where the Department ID and Operator ID are given, the first two stages are skipped.  Once you are signed in, the system will display general department and shop statistics on the top 4 lines and view information below the double-line separator.  Similar to Work Center/Operator Inquiry, this interface has three views which can be toggled with the F1 Key.

The following functions are available:

• Use the F1 Key to toggle between different views and monitor the status of a department or shop.
• Drill down to Work Center/Operation Inquiry and other related interfaces.

View

This interface contains three views, Current Labor View, Active Work Center View and All Work Center View.  Use the F1 Key to toggle between views.  The operator may see fewer views based on the security settings.

Current Labor View

(Figure 11) Department Operation, Current Labor View

This view shows all operators currently working in this department.  These include operators signing into this department, operators signing into a work center which is in this department and operators directly working on a production which is in this department.  The system will display the performance of each operator for the current day in productive hours, non-productive hours and break time and their respective percentages of total hours.

The following functions are available in this view:

• Use Up, Down, Page Up and Page Down to navigate the highlighted bar.  The system will update the time of each operator automatically.
• Use the Enter Key to drill down to Operator Time Clock Inquiry.
• Use the F1 Key to toggle to another view.
• Use the F3 Key to bring up Advanced Options.
• Use the F5 Key to bring up the legend.

Active Work Center View

(Figure 12) Department Operation, Active Work Center View

This view shows all work centers which are currently active.  A work center is active if an open production time record is present for the work center.  The system will display brief production information for each work center.  Only one production per work center will be displayed, but you drill down to each work center for more detail.

The following functions are available in this view:

• Use Up, Down, Page Up and Page Down to navigate the highlighted bar.  The system will update the time of each operator automatically.
• Use the Enter Key to drill down Work Center Inquiry.
• Use the F1 Key to toggle to another view.
• Use the F3 Key to bring up the Advanced Options menu.  The options include production detail inquiry and production activity inquiry.

All Work Center View

(Figure 13) Department Operation, All Work Center View

This view shows all work centers which belong to this department.  If production is taking place in a work center, the system will show additional information about the production.  The system will display the number of workers currently in a work center, even if this work center is not active.

The following functions are available in this view:

• Use Up, Down, Page Up and Page Down to navigate the highlighted bar.  The system will update the time of each operator automatically.
• Use the Enter Key to drill down Work Center Inquiry.
• Use the F1 Key to toggle to another view.
• Use the F3 Key to bring up the Advanced Options menu.  The options include the production detail inquiry and production activity inquiry.

Work Order Inquiry

How to Access:

Main Menu è Distribution è Bill of Material Processor è Inquiry è Work Order Inquiry è Inquiry è Plus Work Order

Or drill-down from another interface

(Figure 14) Work Order Inquiry

Application Overview

Work Order Inquiry is an interface that provides work order header information as well as current production progress.  Current production progress, like Complete Quantity, Scrapped Quantity and Last Production Date, will be updated whenever a transaction for this work order is created.  Also, this interface displays routing, bill of materials and production transactions for the work order in different views and drill downs are available for more detail.

A work order number must be specified unless you have drilled down to Work Order Inquiry from another interface, ex. Sales Order Inquiry.  All the information about the work order will be displayed.

Basic information from the work order header will be displayed on the top four lines, including item number, production location, order status and revision number.  If this work order was copied from a COP order, sales order information will be displayed on the top-right side.  The middle of the screen displays numeric statistics about the order, including quantity ordered, quantity completed, balance quantity, planning start and due dates, and actual start date.  “Balance Qty” is for orders where the ordered quantity is not an exact quantity.  “Exact Bal Qty” is for orders where the order quantity is an exact quantity.  Balance Quantity of an order is the difference between quantity ordered and quantity reported.  If order quantity is an exact quantity, balance quantity is ordered quantity minus completed quantity.  Otherwise, balance quantity is ordered quantity minus completed quantity and scrapped quantity.  “Outstanding Qty” is the number of pieces that have been started but not yet finished.

Views

Below the numeric statistics is a view of the work order.  Like many other interfaces in WO+, Work Order Inquiry has three views, Routing View, Bill of Material View and Production Transaction View.  Use the F1 Key to toggle between these views.

Routing View

(Figure 15) Work Order Inquiry, Routing View

This view shows all operations in the routing of the work order.  The system will display detail information of one operation on the bottom of the screen.  The current quantity of each operation will appear to the right of each operation line and the hours will appear on the bottom-right.

The following functions are available in this view:

• Use Up, Down, Page Up and Page Down to navigate the highlighted bar.
• Use the Enter Key to drill down to the bill of material of one material issued point operation.  The system will display an “M” on the left of the operation’s Work Center to identity material issued points.
• Use the F1 Key to toggle to another view.
• Use the F2 Key to drill down to Sales Order Inquiry if the Work Order was copied from COP.
• Use the F3 Key to drill down to Production Inquiry by Operation for more details.
• Use the F4 Key to bring up the Order Routing Inquiry for more detail.
• Use the F5 Key to bring up the Production Inquiry by Order screen.

Bill of Material View

(Figure 16) Work Order Inquiry, Component View

Bill of Material View displays all components planned to be used or already used to produce the parent item.  Each line displays one component and the quantity to use in the work order.  If the component has been issued, the system will show the quantity used during the production.  If one component was used in 2 or more operations, the system will consolidate the different operations into one record and display an asterisk “*” to the left of the item number.

The following functions are available in this view:

• Use Up, Down, Page Up and Page Down to navigate the highlighted bar.
• Use the Enter Key to drill down to Stock Status Inquiry for the highlighted component.
• Use the F1 Key to toggle to another view.
• Use the F2 Key to drill down to Sales Order Inquiry if the Work Order was copied from COP.
• Use the F3 Key to bring up serial numbers created for the parent item.
• Use the F4 Key to bring up serial numbers issued for the highlighted component.
• Use the F5 Key to drill down to Stock Status Inquiry for the parent item.

Production Transaction View

(Figure 17) Work Order Inquiry, Transaction View

Production Transaction View displays all reported production transactions, posted and unposted.  The system will display reported quantity, which is the sum of completed quantity and scrapped quantity, of one transaction.  The expected labor hours and actual labor hours are displayed as well.  If the operation uses standard value, instead of estimated, the hour variance will be displayed on the right of each line.

The following functions are available in this view:

• Use Up, Down, Page Up and Page Down to navigate the highlighted bar.
• Use the Enter Key to bring up material issued for this transaction.
• Use the F1 Key to toggle to another view.
• Use the F3 Key to drill down to Production Detail if this transaction was created through a scanning interface.
• Use the F4 Key to drill down to Production Activity Inquiry if this transaction was created through a scanning interface.
• Use the F5 Key to bring up the legend.