Barcodes in manufacturing

On the shop floor, hands are busy and screens are far. With a barcode scanner, an operator presses the buttons of a manufacturing order or of a Shop Floor work order by scanning a command code printed on a sheet next to the machine, and records the output by scanning the label of what was just made.

Who

Operators with the Manufacturing ‣ User access right, who scan; production managers (Manufacturing ‣ Administrator), whose buttons, such as restarting a stopped station, can also be scanned.

App

Manufacturing, Shop Floor

Before you start

  • Install the MRP Barcode module. The Shop Floor app and the stock barcode module are installed with it.

  • A scanner that types the code and ends with Enter, as most USB and Bluetooth scanners do.

  • Products to scan have a Barcode; lots and serial numbers are scanned by their name.

How do I print the command sheets?

  1. Go to Manufacturing ‣ Operations ‣ Barcode Command Sheets.

    The menu Barcode Command Sheets

  2. Choose the Sheet to print, Manufacturing Order, Work Order or Both, and click Print. Each screen gets its own page, because a command code only presses a button of the screen that is open.

    The window Barcode Command Sheets

The sheets are the same for every order, so they are printed once. Each code is OBT followed by the name of the command:

Sheet

Commands

Manufacturing Order

Produce (presses Produce or Produce All), Plan, Unplan, Start, Check availability, Unreserve, Cancel.

Work Order

Start / Resume, Pause, Record output, Finish, Stop the machine (report an incident), Restart the station, Generate a lot/serial number, Confirm the quantity, Confirm closing the order.

A command whose button is not shown at that moment does nothing. Keep the sheets away from casual scanning: the cancel code cancels the open order.

How do I start a job by scanning?

  1. On the Shop Floor tablet, open the job by tapping its card. The operation screen opens without starting the clock.

    The operation screen of a job before the scan

  2. Scan the start code of the Work Order sheet. The job is Running and the clock counts, as after a tap on Start.

    The job running after the scan of the start code

Pause, record the output and finish the job the same way, with the codes of the sheet. On the job board, before a job is open, a scan does nothing.

How do I record the output by scanning a label?

With the job open, scan the label of the finished product:

  • a product that is not tracked records one unit at once;

  • a product tracked by lot opens Record output to choose the lot; once the finished lot of the order is chosen, each scan of the product records one unit under it;

  • a lot name opens Record output with that lot ready;

  • a serial number is recorded at once.

A label of another product is refused. A recording made by a scan is undone from Record output, like one made by a tap.

Common errors

Problem

What to do

A scan does nothing.

Open the job first, or check that the button of the code is shown on the screen at that moment.

The restart code does nothing.

Only users who see the Restart station button can use it.

Next steps

See also

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