Product Manufacturing Manager's Station

General Information

This screen lets you create batches of stages for processing by the manufacturing operators setup in your company and monitor the progress of the manufacturing stages.

If you have the Advanced Warehouse Module installed along with the Product Manufacturing Module in your M.O.M. system, you have available for use the Product Manufacturing Manager's Station to manage and direct the Manufacturing Stages that require processing and the user's designated as Manufacturing Operators. The assigned stages will appear in the designated user's Product Manufacturing Workstation.

See Also

Product Manufacturing Manager's Station - Batch Assignment

How to Use the Screen

Manufacturing Resources

Displays the number of users who are designated as Manufacturing Operators, then displays the number of users that are currently logged into the Product Manufacturing Workstation. Select the VIEW RESOURCES button to view a list of the Picker's and or Packers and their duration of time in the Product Manufacturing Workstation.

Creating or Editing Batches

The screen uses the standard Microsoft "tree" type display with folders. Folders with content can be opened and/or closed by clicking on the + or - symbol to the left of the folder.

1. Use the screen to view a list of all of the Unassigned and Assigned orders and/or order segments for processing.

2. • Unassigned - those orders and/or order segments that have not yet been given to any packer. The detail under the main folder shows the count for each stage of order processing.

   • Assigned in Batch - those orders and/or order segments that have been assigned to packers manually using the Batch Assignment screen. The detail under the main folder shows the number of orders assigned to each operator as a subfolder, with the associated counts for each manufacturing stage.

   • Assigned Automatically - those orders and/or order segments that have been assigned to packers by M.O.M. when the Automatically Assign New Jobs to Manufacturing Operators option is selected. The detail under the main folder shows the number of orders assigned to each packer as a subfolder, with the associated counts for each manufacturing stage. Note: The Automatic Assignment option is only available when users are signed into the Manufacturing Assembly Workstation.

2. The screen automatically refreshes every 60 seconds and new orders and/or order segments are loaded as Unassigned. To refresh the screen between automatic refreshes, select the REFRESH button.

3. Optionally, to view the information on the screen graphically, select the GRAPH button to display the Graphing Screen for Reports.

4. Optionally, if you have multiple warehouses set up, use the Process JOBs For Warehouse pull-down menu to select to view the list for a specific warehouse or all warehouses.

5. To manually create a new batch for any unassigned segments, select Unassigned Segments in the list with your mouse and press the NEW BATCH button. To view or edit a batch of assigned segments, select an Assigned batch in the list with your mouse and press the VIEW/EDIT button. In either case, the Batch Assignment screen is displayed.