New Workcenter Dashboard in Manufacturing

Purpose of the Workcenter dashbaord in manufacturing module of Sparrow ERP is to enable shop floor operators see the new and up-coming jobs. It allows them to focus on activity only related to their own department but still provides enough information.

The new Workcenter Dashboard gives you instant overview of jobs running in each workcenter. It gives instant glance to job statistics of each department like, number of running jobs, ready to start jobs as well as paused or partially finished jobs.

The Workcenter Dashboard has click-through functionality. On clicking particular statistical count, user is able to see detailed list view of jobs running in that department. All jobs are listed according to priority assigned to them by system. Each priority number is color coded. The highest priority jobs are coded with hard colors like red/orange and lowest priority jobs are coded with soft colors like light blue/green. Priority is initially assigned automatically based on algorithm taking into account the time remaining for shipping the job. However, the priority can be changed manually by operator.
On clicking icon in operator column, the user can assign/unassign a job to himself or to any other operator. In the comment column; if user wants to make a new comment, he can click on the same icon of the comment column and add the comment. If the comment icon is red that means there is already existing comment and the user can read it. On clicking on the start button operation dialog-box will open.

On operation dialog box, before starting the operation user can select resources that are going to be used in the process (this selection influences the production cost). User can also add “Unplanned Operation” if any extra activity is to be performed during the process. Operation can be Paused and resumed. And, finally before finishing the operation user can change finished quantity. The change in finished quantity can either trigger scrap or allows you to move partially finished quantity to the next stage.