Shop-Trak Work Center Profile

Limited Employee Skills can be defined within Shop-Trak by utilizing the Employee Skills form and the Shop-Trak Work Center Profile form. When employees are assigned skills and those same skills are assigned to a Work Center Profile, that employee is now qualified to work at that work center. Each employee can have multiple skills assigned.

The Employee Skills form is the primary file for establishing skills for employees. These skill names are to be linked to the Shop-Trak Work Center Profile form for applying the skills feature of Shop-Trak.

Controls Tab

The Controls on the Work Center profile are used to enforce the parameters defined on the Job Routing. Implementing these controls will assure that employees cannot mistakenly report quantities complete at non-control points, or actual run time to operations that are backflushing the standard labor.

These controls are specific a Work Center. Turn the parameters on or off based on the Work Centers that will require this functionality.

Labor:

Disable Labor at Backflushed Operations - This parameter controls whether or not employees on the shop floor can report actual time worked against operations that have backflush set to Labor, or Both, (Labor and Machine time).

By Default, the Work Center form in SyteLine will hold the setting to designate the Work Center as one that will backflush the standard labor or not. The backflushing value will default from the Work Center when a new Job Routing is created. This setting may be overridden on the actual Job Operation form.

The intention of this setting is to prevent the doubling up of labor charged to a job operation. If the operation is set to backflush labor and this parameter is checked, then only the standard labor time will be charged to the job operation based on the quantity completed.

Disable Quantities at Non-Control Points - This parameter controls whether or not employees on the shop floor can report quantities complete to Non-Control Point operations. If this parameter is enabled, employees will not be able to report a quantity complete to a Non-Control Point Operation.

By Default, the Work Center form in SyteLine holds the setting to designate the Work Center as a Control Point or not. This value will default from the Work Center when a new Job Routing is created. This setting may be overridden on the actual Job Operation form.

The intention of this setting is to allow employees to only report quantities to Control Point operations.

The Disable Labor at Backflushed Operations and Disable Quantities at Non-Control Point Operations parameters can be enabled or disabled individually per Work Center.

Is the Operation a Control Point?	Is Labor Backflushed?	Functions Allowed from the Shop Floor
YES	YES	WIP Move Only
YES	NO	Labor and WIP Moves
NO	YES	No Labor or WIP Moves
NO	NO	Labor Only

Materials:

Allow Add of Job Materials - The Intention of this parameter is to allow for flexibility in the event that an alternate item needs to be issued to the job, or more material than was called for on the BOM needs to be issued due to excess scrap or damaged materials.

This Parameter works in conjunction with the Job Material Transaction screen in Shop-Trak Shop Floor. If it is enabled for a specific work center, employees that can perform the Job Material Transaction will be allowed to issue Materials that are not on the BOM, such as alternate or replacement items. Enabling the Allow Add of Job Materials will allow employees to issue additional materials for whatever the circumstance.

NOTE: All backflushed items are automatically filtered out of the Issue or Withdrawal Item drop-down.

NOTE: This parameter does not have any effect when using the Visual Serialization method of issuing materials to the job. Even if it is set to Allow Add of Job Materials, employees using the Visual Serialization tab will not be allowed to issue more than is required, or issue additional materials that or not on the original BOM.

Allow to Issue More Than Required - Enabling this parameter will allow shop floor employees to issue more material than is required by the BOM, this includes backflushed items and non-backflushed items.

An item is designated as backflushed in the Item form in SyteLine. This setting defaults in to the Job Materials form when a new job routing is created. This default setting may be overridden on the Job Material form.

If employees need to issue more of a backflushed item or a non-backflushed item, the employee will be allowed to manually enter the item, or use a scanner to enter the item. Alternate items that are not on the job BOM may also be issued to the job.

Backflush:

Shop-Trak can perform backflushing of Lot or Serial tracked materials from Shop Floor.

Backflush Required - Allows administrators to define, by Work Center, when the actual backflush requirements must be performed. There are three settings:

NOTE: This is the default setting for any pre-existing Work Center Profiles.

If the work center is set to Never, at the time the employee on the shop floor is entering or completing a transaction that completes or scraps quantity, they will not be prompted to perform the backflushing requirements. The transaction will be sent to the Backflush Lot and Serial Selection form in Shop-Trak Shop Floor. The backflushing requirements will be performed at a later time. Transactions will remain in this form until the lot or serial number fulfillment is complete.

NOTE: The employee needs to have the Backflush Lots/SNs check box selected on the Main tab of the Shop-Trak Employee Profile form in order to use the feature. Enabling this option will place a button on the Material tab of Shop-Trak Shop Floor allowing the employee to access this form.

If the work center is set to Prompt, the employee will be shown the form to perform the backflushing of the lots and serials. Partial completion of the backflushing requirements may be performed. The employee may also perform the full backflushing requirements, or choose to send the transaction through without selecting any lots or serials. If the full backflushing requirements have not been met, the transaction will be sent to the Backflush Lot and Serial Selection form in Shop-Trak Shop Floor. The backflushing requirements will be performed at a later time. Transactions will remain in this form until the lot or serial number fulfillment is complete.

If the work center is set to Required, the employee will be required to fulfill all the lot and serial number assignment prior to completing their transaction. If there are not enough lot or serial numbers available in inventory, the employee will be held up from ending the transaction until the quantities available in inventory are adequate to fullfil the backflushing needs. Transactions that have all the lots or serials assigned at the time the employee ends their transaction will transfer and post to SyteLine when the employee’s transaction transfers.

Doc-Trak:

Allow Document Savings Rules - Select this check box to allow employees to scan or drag and drop Doc-Trak attachments while using Shop Floor. For more information, please refer to the Doc-Trak section of the Shop-Trak Setting Up the Employee Profile - Controls tab topic.