Starting Machine Operations

Use the Start Machine Time form to start machine operations for a job.

To start a job operation:

1. Open the Start Machine Time form.
2. Optionally, specify a date and time to record for this transaction. The current date and time is specified by default. The employee can only modify the date and time when the user ID has the appropriate authorizations on the User Extensions form.
3. 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. To view the current progress of each operation in the selected job, select the Progress tab.
4. Employees can use the new field Machine Resource to specify a resource when starting a labor transaction.
   • The dropdown list for the Machine Resource field displays resources that are in the resource groups on the Syteline job operations form's resource tab.
5. The Details tab displays operation related data. The tab displays item information, the work center, job/operation quantity information and other job information.
6. To start the selected operation, click the green process button. To close the form without starting any operations, click the Close/Exit button.