How can employees start production for multiple jobs at one time? Using Data Collection.
They are able to Start Production Activity for multiple jobs. The user has to use the Start Production Activity for each job.
The jobs that have been started will display on the Production tab in MES.
When you want to complete a job you highlight the job on the Production tab and select End Activity.
yes, you are correct. I didn’t write the question very well. Looking for something a little less cumbersome than starting production for every job individually. Something where they can scan the job barcode (we are using a combination barcode for job, assembly, operation) for multiple jobs at one time - one screen entry for multiple jobs. Is there such a thing?
If they are working the same operation, take a look at Job Batching. It creates a parent job for all the children. Application help will get you through testing to see if it would work for you.
Jenn
Thank you, Jenn. We reviewed the batch operations and it won’t work because once source jobs are batched together, they cannot be separated. We only want to log on to multiple jobs at one operation.
Interesting, we just retested this in 10.2.500 - we took 3 jobs and batched the operation that backflushed steel. Each job had different operations after the programming that was batched. Once we completed the batched job, the pseudo materials were all issued back to the 3 jobs and we were able to complete the additional operations on the original jobs. We used job batching from the multi-resource scheduling board. It could be working this way for us since we have advanced programming and scheduling…
Sounds like you’ll have to go down the customization route. Good luck!
Jenn
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