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Contents
Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 3
What's In This Manual ..................................................................................................................................... 4
Symbols and Conventions ............................................................................................................................... 5
Shop Floor Manager Navigation Tips ............................................................................................................ 6
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INTRODUCTION: AutoAGENT SHOP FLOOR MANAGER
Introduction
Welcome to AutoAGENT Shop Floor Manager, an important
component within AMI AutoAGENT. Shop Floor Manager automates
the collection of employee time and attendance information, and
production data, giving you accurate and detailed insight into your
production environment.
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• Part 2, Schedule Board, explains how to use the Shop Floor
Manager Schedule Board to manage your shop floor scheduling
activities.
• Part 3, Processing, explains how to process all shop floor
transactions.
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1. Subject – Select the subject that most closely matches your issue.
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PART 1: SETUP
• Chapter 4, “Downtime Codes”, describes how to set up user
defined downtime codes used to categorize downtime activities for
reporting and inquiry purposes.
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2. Server – Enter the name of the server that will be used to store and process
your Shop Floor Manager transactions. Typically, this refers to the name of
the computer from your location that will be designated as the Shop Floor
Manager Server for the AMI AutoAGENT.
3. Database – Enter the name of the database that will store Shop floor
transactions. This database must already exist on the server identified in
step 2. Typically, this refers to the name of the SQL server database located
on your Shop Floor Manager server.
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4. Login – Enter the login User ID to be used to access the SQL database.
This ID must already exist on the server identified in step 2 and must have
read and write access to the SQL database.
5. Password – Enter the password associated with the User ID from step 4. It
is recommended that you use strong passwords in order to protect your
company’s computer investment and data integrity. Contact AMI’s support
department if you need assistance in developing strong passwords.
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All time should be entered as military hours and regular minutes. For
example, 2:30 PM should be entered 14:30
c. Lunch From: Enter the start time for lunch for this shift
d. Lunch To: Enter the end time for lunch for this shift.
e. Breaks From: Enter the start time for up to 4 breaks for this shift.
f. Breaks To: Enter the end time for up to 4 breaks for this shift.
4. Round Start & End Time – When an employee clocks in at the beginning
of the shift and clocks out at the end of the shift there may be times when
the actual time is not exactly on the shift start or end time. If you check this
box you will be able to enter a minute value that will represent the
allowable (under and over) starting and ending time, in minutes, that will
automatically round to the start and end time.
Suppose the shift start time is 7:00 and an employee clocks in at 6:51
The shift start time for this employee will automatically adjust to 7:00
In the same example if the employee clocks in at 6: 49 will not adjust to 7:00.
This rounding will help eliminate incomplete shift hours for each employee
to reflect a full 8 hours of work to feed to the payroll system.
5. Round Start & End Lunch Time – When an employee clocks out for
lunch or back from lunch there may be times when the actual time is not
exactly on the lunch start or end time. If you check this box you will be
able to enter a minute value. This will be the number of minutes that you
will adjust to the lunch start and end times.
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Suppose the lunch start time is 12:00 and an employee clocks out at 11:57
The lunch start time for this employee will automatically adjust to 12:00.
This rounding will help eliminate incomplete lunch break minutes for each
employee to reflect a full lunch break period for the workday for employees
across the shop floor.
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Each open transaction will have a job status (active working condition)
as follows:
The Shop Floor Manager applications use job status codes to create a
description to identify the type of work that is being logged against this
job transaction. These are predefined codes that are automatically
displayed on any Shop Floor Manager collection device.
Each job status code may have the need for additional information to
be collected such as pieces produced, reworked or scrapped. Here you
will use job status codes setup to customize each job status to best fit
the shop floor data collection needs of your company.
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To set up Job Status Codes:
1. Open Shop Floor – Job Status window.
(Shop Floor >> Setup >> Job Status)
2. Status – Select or enter a code that uniquely identifies this job. Available
status codes include:
3. Quantity Produced – Check the “Qty Produced” box if this job status code
should prompt for a quantity produced. If there could be pieces produced
while an employee is scanned in under this job status code then this box
should be checked so that when the quantity prompt will be displayed.
4. Quantity Reworked – Check the “Qty Reworked” box if this job status
code should prompt for a quantity reworked. If there could be pieces
reworked while an employee is scanned in under this job status code then
this box should be checked so that when the quantity prompt will be
displayed.
5. Quantity Scrapped – Check the “Qty Produced” box if this job status code
should prompt for a quantity scrapped. If there could be pieces scrapped
while an employee is scanned in under this job status code then this box
should be checked so that when the quantity prompt will be displayed.
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6. Code – Check the “Code” box if this job status code should prompt for a
downtime code.
7. Pay Code – Check the “Pay Code” box if this job status code should
prompt for a pay code.
8. Save – Choose Save to save the entry when you are finished.
Chapter 4: Downtime Codes
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4. Transaction Code – Enter the one character transaction code that you want
to link this downtime code to isolate this downtime for reporting or inquiry
purposes. Typically you would enter a “D” for downtime because the
majority of downtime transactions will be entered with a transaction code of
“D”. You may want to create some key downtime transactions that are
common to your manufacturing processes that would be key to your day-to-
day efficiency improvement initiatives.
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2. Highlight the work center you wish work with from the work center list that
is (vertically) positioned on the left of the schedule board screen.
3. View – Select “All” to view all scheduled and unscheduled requirements for
a given work center.
4. Import – Choose Import to import new shop floor demand that was
generated from the Repetitive MRP generate shop schedule process.
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2. Highlight the work center you wish work with from the work center list that
is (vertically) positioned on the left of the schedule board screen.
3. View – Select “All” to view all scheduled and unscheduled requirements for
a given work center.
4. Import – Choose Import to import new shop floor demand that was
generated from the Repetitive MRP generate shop schedule process.
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This means that this employee is in the plant and available to work
in this work center. Employee head counts will be used in the
scheduling process to determine if there are enough available
employee resources to complete the scheduled job by the required
date. If there are not enough employee resources assigned to this
job it will be flagged with a red status line on the schedule board to
give the supervisor an immediate red flag that a resource change
may need to be made to successfully complete this job on time.
This means that this machine is up and running and available to the
work center. Like employee resources, machine resources will be
used in the scheduling process to determine if there are enough
available resources to complete the scheduled job by the required
date. If there is not enough employee and or machine resources
assigned to this job, it will be flagged with a red status line on the
schedule board to give the supervisor an immediate red flag that a
resource change may need to be made to successfully complete this
job on time.
3. Item – Place a check mark for each item under the corresponding
machine to link this item to this machine.
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Note: Each time you make resource changes, you must run the
schedule process and create a new schedule for any resource
changes to take affect on a schedule.
4. Schedule – Once you have imported shop floor demand and adjusted
employee and machine resources you are ready to create a shop floor
schedule that will create a new or update an existing schedule. This job
schedule demand will automatically be updated to the schedule board to
give you a visual representation of jobs scheduled for each work center.
See “Schedule Board” for more information.
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PART 3: PROCESSING
• Chapter 7, “Job / Employee Schedule” is used to check the status
of jobs scheduled to a work center or to print job tickets.
• Chapter 8, “Time / View Maintenance”, to make adjustments to
transactions that have been automatically updated from the shop
floor data collection devices.
• Chapter 9, “Transaction Update”, to update all open transactions
from the Shop Floor Manager into the Production Manager
module.
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2. View – You can view all shop floor demand for each work center by selecting
“All”. To view jobs up to a specific date select “Up To” and enter the to date
from the calendar. Press the following symbol to access the calendar .
If you only want to view jobs for a specific date select “On” and enter the
date from the calendar.
Each work center is listed vertically on the left of the screen. Highlight the
work center to view any open jobs for that work center.
3. Print Job Tickets – Choose “Print Job Tickets” to print new job tickets or
to reprint job tickets. The following job ticket print screen will appear:
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1. New – Select new to print job tickets for the first time. Each job ticket is
assigned a unique, transaction serial number. Here you can print a job ticket
for selected scheduled jobs. You may also want to print multiple job tickets
(each with a unique transaction serial number) because you potentially may
have enough work for multiple employees to work on a scheduled job over
multiple shifts.
4. Printed – Choose “Printed” to print another copy of a job ticket that has
already been printed. Perhaps an employee is currently scanned into a job
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and misplaced their job ticket or is unable to scan the job ticket for whatever
reason. Here you will be able to quickly and easily ID a job ticket by
transaction serial number using the Find command and reprint this job ticket.
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3. Qty Produced – The total quantity produced against this transaction serial
number will be displayed here. You can make adjustments to this total by
entering a new (overriding) produced quantity.
4. Qty Scrapped – The total quantity scrapped against this transaction serial
number will be displayed here. You can make adjustments to this total by
entering a new (overriding) scrapped quantity.
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• Chapter 10, “Reports”, explains all the reporting capabilities of the
shop floor manager.
• Chapter 11, “Inquiries”, explains all the inquiry options within the
shop floor manager.
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To access Reports
1. Open the Shop Floor – Reports window.
(Shop Floor >> Reports / Inquiries >> Reports)
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Job Ticket – Select Job Ticket to print select or range of job tickets. The
following prompt screen will appear:
2. Work Center – Select the work center from the drop down list to access a
list of open job tickets.
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4. Find – You can search for an item, machine ID, or transaction serial
number by selecting from the Item drop down list. Press the find to
complete the search.
a. Selected – Place a check mark next to each job ticket that you
want to print.
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1. All – Select “All” to print all employee badges.
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To access Inquiries:
1. Open the Shop Floor – Inquiries window.
(Shop Floor >> Reports / Inquiries >> Inquiries)
2. Work Centers Inquiry – This inquiry will display each work center
and the scheduled production hours as defined for this work center.
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4. Work Center Employees Inquiry – Displays for each work center all
employee labor capacity. Active employees have a status of A.
5. Job Status Inquiry – Displays all the job status codes that are used in the
shop floor manager data collection to record transactions.
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9. Job Tickets Time Inquiry – Displays all job status activities posted
against a selected transaction serial number.
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11. Job Tickets Time History Inquiry – Displays all the historical
transactions that have been updated from the Shop Floor Manager
into the Production Manager for each job ticket you select here.
12. Downtime Pay Code Inquiry – Displays all downtime codes and
its corresponding pay code.
13. Time View Inquiry – Displays all time and production data
collected for a job ticket.
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2. Unused – Select “Unused” to display all unused job tickets to purge from
the shop floor manager database.
Place a check mark in the selected box for each transaction serial no. (job
ticket), that you want to purge from the open job ticket tables.
3. Used – Select “Used” to display all used job tickets to purge from the shop
floor manager database.
Place a check mark in the selected box for each transaction serial no. (job
ticket), that you want to purge from the open job ticket tables.
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4. History – Select “History” to display all historical job tickets you can purge
from the shop floor manager database.
Place a check mark in the selected box for each transaction serial no. (job
ticket), that you want to purge from the historical job ticket tables.
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