To focus on the highest priority jobs, your factory needs the latest shop floor information. Honeycomb®ERP Shop Floor Control provides this information along with a set of easy-to-use tools for achieving maximum productivity.
Closed-Loop Feedback
The final phase in the closed-loop process is the tracking and feedback of actual shop floor activity. The successful execution of your master production and material requirements planning depends on rapid and accurate dispatch of daily production. Shop Floor Control is designed to integrate these tasks fully.
Work-in-Process Visibility
Shop Floor Control provides shop personnel with a set of easy-to-use transactions for reporting work order operation completions and quantities of items produced. Shop status provides the added visibility necessary to stay on top of the current work-in-process.
Shop Floor Empowerment
Shop Floor Control gives you the tools you need to tailor the production plan that includes the detail production schedules and workflows to match best with the people and machines available at each work center. This helps you optimize production plan and anticipate needs for critical resources, as well as helps the people on the factory floor actively contribute to the success of your production plan.
Move Ticket Reporting & Lot Tracking
Move ticket provide an easy method for reporting shop floor progress when separate shop floor documents are needed for tracking physical movement from one work center to the next. The electronic traveler provides a paperless production order management solution designed to replace the existing job traveler cards. The software tracks a lot through each production process and requires that each production supervisor receives a lot and then return it after completing processes assigned to him. The lot manufacturing information is recorded till the end of final manufacturing process. This results in increasing throughput, accuracy and elimination of errors. The system provides traceability allowing you to figure the responsible employees or vendors in case there is a quality complaint.
On-Screen Dispatching
On-screen dispatching inquiries and reports provide factory supervisors with the information they need to control the production floor. This up-to-the-minute input provides a powerful tool for monitoring currently planned operations, work center loading and priority sequencing. It also provides the visibility into what needs to be completed in order to ensure a smooth and coordinated production flow.
Quality Records
It is said that marketing sells the thing once, its quality that keep it selling. Our software takes care of quality records. The system keeps track of defective goods and rework. The system can generate the quality reports that give you information about products wise defects, vendor wise defect reports and the reasons for rejections. This help you pin point the problem areas and improve them quickly.
Supervisor Roles
Supervisor roles allow you assign supervisors to various production processes and sub process. Whenever a supervisor logs in, he sees only the process information relevant to his role. This feature ensures system security at one hand and ease of use on the other. You can mark any employee of your company as a supervisor, the list of employees is provided by the HR Module.
Shop Floor Control
- View all production jobs by work center
- Select workload by date range and shift
- Update operation completions
- Report completions by quantity or percentage
- Review operation start and end dates
- Work center dispatch list
- List of work by priority, order, line and type
- Pay points automatically back-fill prior operations
- Labor and machine load hours
- Setup and run times
- Completion status
- Outside processing status
- Next or prior work center
- Labor and machine capacities with effectivity
- Efficiency factors and queue times
- Work order shortages
User-Controlled Operation Scheduling
- Modify detail planning and loading of shop orders
- Reassign shift codes
- Assign order priority code
- Select work order code: backward, forward and user defined
- Set operation start and end dates
- Define overlapped or parallel operation sequencing
- Create user-defined status codes for shop floor control
Work Order Dispatching
- View selected work order lines
- Display part numbers and order quantities
- Display and update work order operations
- Review planned operation start and end dates
- Report completed quantities or percentages
- Identify Next and prior work center
- Shift assignment
- View operation routing with function description
- Review setup times, run times, crew sized and move times
- Notification of bill of materials component shortages
Move Ticket Recording
- Work order activity and progress
- Operation completions using quantities or percentages
- Assign posting date
- Report completed activity types
- Labor setup and run, machine set up and run, outside processing
Other Reports
- The following reports are generated by the system:
- Process traveler card
- Contract traveler card
- List of products
- Quality records
- Process wise lots
- Product wise lot