Using Factory Track with SyteLine

Inventory and production management

Factory Track modules retrieve data from SyteLine as needed and update SyteLine in real-time to keep track of material usage of material or to record job progress:

• Operators can retrieve drawings or notes for a specific item, operation, or job. They can also request replenishment of material via Kanban. For work centers producing Kanbans, production can be recorded while filling Kanban requests. For repetitive environments, production schedule reporting capabilities are also available.
• Using an attached barcode scanner, operators can scan items, lots, serial numbers, and other production data as needed for transaction and inventory purposes. The system can be configured to send output to a barcode printing program for most transactions. Lost or ruined labels can easily be reprinted with the reprint transaction. Factory Track has a standard integration to the BarTender third-party application.

  These devices can link shop employees to SyteLine in real time, allowing them to act on current information and priorities without the need for paper printouts. This also provides an up-to-date status in the ERP for many material activities, such as picking or shipping customer orders, goods received at the dock, and floor replenishment.

• Factory Track can record pieces completed and scrapped during jobs, and pass that information to SyteLine.
• Device screens can be designed to fit the intended task and concentrate on specific shop floor needs, so that the full ERP forms are not needed.

Tracking time and attendance and labor hours per operation

In Factory Track, labor reporting from the shop floor is integrated with SyteLine HR and job data:

• In the work centers, touch-screen devices display web pages where users can start or stop labor and machine transactions.
• An operator can work on several jobs simultaneously using the work set feature. A team of operators can work on a single job or multiple jobs using the teams feature.
• Machine usage can either be automatically integrated with labor or manually recorded as a standalone function.
• With the Factory Track time and attendance and labor reporting features, employees can clock in, time their daily activities, record lunches and breaks, and clock out. This data is available for supervisor review and approval. Dommonly requested features such as vacation and holiday handling, excused and unexcused absence processing, and overtime determination rules, are included. The data can be wholly or partially integrated back to SyteLine to record actual hours per operation. An extract of the data can then be transmitted to a payroll system.
• Different rules can be applied for different circumstances, or different modes applied to different employee groups. Rather than using a clock-in and clock-out scheme, some employees might report their time using a simple time sheet mode, either to general tasks or to activities defined in SyteLine; for example, engineers working on specific tasks or projects.

Tracking exceptions

Factory Track, when used with SyteLine, can also operate as an exception system:

• The system can be configured to correct minor discrepancies and to alert supervisors to unexpected occurrences.
• Supervisors are visually cued to correct, accept, or report problems when established tolerances are exceeded.