Starting Job Operations

Use the Start Run form to start job operations for individual employees. To start job operations for a team, see Starting Job Operations for a Team.

To start a job operation:

  1. Open the Start Run form.
    Note: An employee without the correct skills to start the job transaction, gets this message: The employee does not have sufficient skills for this job Transaction.
  2. Optionally, specify a date and time to record for this transaction. The current date and time is specified by default. The date and time can only be modified when a user ID has the appropriate authorizations on the User Extensions form.
  3. Specify a job, suffix, and operation. The item number, unit of measure, job status the total, scrapped, completed, and remaining quantities on the Details tab. To view the current progress of each operation in the selected job, select the Progress tab. Specify a job, job suffix, and operation. When a job/operation is selected the Details tab displays the item number, unit of measure, job status the total, scrapped, completed, and remaining quantities. The Progress tab displays progress of the selected job.
  4. The employee can select the Combine Labor and Machine Time check box to report machine time as a ration of labor time. When FT Time Track module is implemented the employee can specify the ration using the field Machine Ratio, that is displayed when Combine Labor and Machine Time is checked
  5. Employees can select a resource ID for starting a transaction.
    • You can only view the resource ID field on start and end forms, if the global parameter Display Resource ID is selected.
    • The resource ID field displays resources that are in the resource groups on the Syteline job operations form's resource tab.
    • Employee can only select resources associated with the job, if the parameter Only allow job resource is selected. However, employee can enter any valid resource if Only allow job resource is not selected.
    • The Machine Resource field is displayed when the Combine Labor and Machine Time is checked.
    • The dropdown list for the Machine Resource field displays resources that are in the resource groups on the Syteline job operations form's resourcetab
  6. To start the selected operation, select the green process button. To close the form without starting any operations, select the Close button.
Parent topic: Overviews and Procedures
Related topics