1. Your work centre’s queue
Manufacturing → Floor shows the steps waiting on each work centre as big cards, in the order the planner wants them run. Start here: what a card says and what its colour means.
Where it is
- Manufacturing → Floor — Signed in as yourself
- Shared tablet — Full screen; you pick your name
- Production TV — What the shop sees on the wall
Who this is for: everyone who makes things on the floor: operators, fabricators, welders, finishers, apprentices. Lesson 6 is about the shared tablet.
Every step of a released manufacturing order is a task on that order's workshop job, and the floor terminal lays those tasks out for a noisy shop: big cards, one tap to start, one to finish.
Where it is
- Manufacturing → Floor when you are signed in on your own phone or a computer. Everything you do is in your name.
- The shared tablet (Open as a shared tablet, or
/app/kiosk/flooron the tablet by the machine): full screen, and you tap your name first (lesson 6).
A card
Each card is one step of one order: the order number, the product and how many, the step's name and its work centre, the standard time the routing gives it, and a progress bar of how many units are through. The chip in the corner says where it is:
| Chip | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Ready | Nothing is holding it. Start it. |
| Running | Someone is clocked onto it now; their name is on the card. |
| Paused | It was started and stopped; the units so far are kept. |
| Waiting on earlier step | The step before it in the routing isn't finished. The card says Finish … first. |
| Waiting on outside work | An earlier step is with a contractor (powder coating, plating) and isn't back yet. |
| Needs QC | The step is finished but a QC sign-off is still owed (lesson 4). |
| Finished | Done. It stays on the board for the rest of the shift, then drops off. |
The order of the cards
Running steps first, then paused, then ready, then the ones waiting; finished last. Within that, the planner's order: Urgent and High orders first, then the order the planner set on the Schedule board, then due date. You don't have to work out what to do next: take the first Ready card on your centre's tab.
Picking your work centre
Tap your centre's tab and leave it there. The All tab is for a leading hand looking across the shop.
Lesson 1 of 6 in On the floor. Next: 2. Start and Pause: clocking onto a step.