Shop Floor Data Capture
Sicon Shop Floor Data Capture (SFDC) is designed for businesses requiring a simple way to record live manufacturing information by allowing shop floor operatives to clock on and off Operations. The Android based App links to both Sicon Works Order Processing and Sicon Projects to allow real-time capture of progress and elapsed time, making this an ideal solution for production environments.
Time captured from the Operations is stored in a centralised Sicon Timesheet, which can also be populated from other Sicon solutions, such as Sicon Time & Attendance, Sicon Approvals, Sicon Service and Sicon Projects. This creates a complete timesheet with users simply recording their activities throughout the day.
Additional functionality available within Sicon SFDC allows users to issue allocated components to Sicon Works Orders and process Works Order Inspections that are linked to Operations or stock items.
What will I need installed to make this work?
Sage 200 installed with the Sage 200 Commercial modules.
The Sicon Web API installed.
The Sicon SFDC Add-on in Sage.
The Sicon SFDC App installed on the tablet.
Sicon Manufacturing or Sicon Projects installed
What you will need to provide:
Wireless Network covering your production area(s).
Your chosen hardware options.
The Sicon Shop Floor Data Capture module and users are available to buy from the Sage Marketplace on subscription and will run on any Android device, (minimum specifications required).
Using Shop Floor Data Capture
The standard user interface will look like this:
Works Order List
This is where the user will see any Works Orders with operations assigned to them or their team.
As default the works orders will load in order of date created, with the most recent displaying at the top of the list.
Reading the screen, the numbers below relate to the image at the right of this section;
Search – Here the user can search for a specific Works Order number if they wish to navigate quickly to a particular WO.
WO number – Displays the WO number.
Date – Shows the due date this work should be completed by, if the date shows in red, this indicated the due date is in the past.
WO item – The item description for the part/s the works order is making will be displayed here. This makes it easy and convenient for the user to identify what each works order is for.
Completed parts – This shows the total number of items the WO requires to be complete and the total that have currently been made. Current total/Required total. It then uses the calculation between the two figure to display a percentage complete in the bar below. The bar will be partly coloured in green with the percentage figure displaying.
Completed time – This shows the total time required to complete the WO and the total time completed so far. Displayed in hours and minutes. Time taken so far HOURS: MINS/Time required to finish HOURS:MINS. It then uses the calculation between the two figure to display a percentage complete in the bar below. The bar will be partly coloured in green with the percentage figure displaying.
Within the Works Order – Details Tab
The numbers below relate to the image at the bottom right corner of this section.
Number – This displays the Works Order number, for the WO currently opened.
BOM – This is the name and description of the Bill Of Materials being produced on this Works Order.
Quantity – This displays the total quantity of the BOM required to complete this Works Order.
Status – This will display the status of the Works Order, for example ‘New’, ‘Part Allocated’, ‘Allocated’, ‘Part Issued’, ‘Issues’.
Operation count – This shows the total number of operations required to complete this Works Order on the right-hand side of the slash, preceded by the current total of operations completed so far. OPS COMPLETED SO FAR / TOTAL OPERATIONS ON WO
Act/Est Hours – This shows the total time required to complete this Works Order on the right-hand side of the slash, preceded by the current time completed so far. (Time is shown in hours and minutes) TIME COMPLETED SO FAR / TOTAL TIME ON WO
Operation % – This shows the progress percentage of the WO so far, based on the operation count (setting 5). (I.e. If the total operations is 2 and so far 1 has been completed, the operation % will show as 50%, and the green progress bar will be halfway along.)
Act/Est% – This shows the actual hours completed on the left and the estimated hours required on the right. (Time is shown in hours and minutes). The actual hours are the hours recorded using the Shop Floor Data Capture handheld device. The estimate hours are the time assigned to the operation when this was originally created in Sage.
Start Date – This shows the start date of the Works Order
Due Date – This shows the due date of the Works Order, set within the Sicon Works Order in Sage200
Version – This shows the revision or version of the Works Order
Area – This shows the current production area that this particular Works Order should be in, if different operations are in different areas, this box will change as the Works Order progresses around the factory.
Warehouse (F) – This displays the FINISHED warehouse, the warehouse in which the finished Works Order will be sent to. This could be for despatch or into free stock.
Warehouse (C) – This displays the COMPONENT warehouse, the default warehouse in which components for this Works Order can be found.
Comments – This displays any comments that have been added to the Works Order in Sage 200. These could be used for production notes or specific items for note on any given purchase order.
When on the Works Orders list in the handheld device, the WO can be tapped on and this will take the user into that WO. The first screen they will see after opening the Works Order is the details tab, seen and described below.
Within the Works Order – Operation Tab
The next screen the user will see, the centre option within the Works Order, is the ‘Operations’ tab. This tab displays details of the operations to be carried out on this Works Order and from here the user can clock on to operations too. Details on the contents of this screen are seen and described below.
The numbers below relate to the image at the bottom left corner of this section.
Operation ID and type – This shows the operation ID, this will correspond with the Works Order in Sage 200.
Operation due date – This displays the date the operation should be completed by in order to complete the Works Order by its due date, this takes into account all the other operations that also need to be carried out.
Operation description and name – This displays what the operation is, giving the description, name and the team the operation is assigned to. This makes it easy for users to identify which their operation is and book on to the correct one.
Operation count – This shows the total number of items required to complete this operation on the right-hand side of the slash, preceded by the current total of operations completed so far. OPS COMPLETED SO FAR / TOTAL OPS NEEDED TO BE COMPLETED
Operation count percentage – This displays a percentage figure of the calculation above.
Operation time (Actual and estimate) – This shows the actual hours completed on the left and the estimated hours required on the right. (Time is shown in hours and minutes). The actual hours are the hours recorded using the Shop Floor Data Capture handheld device. The estimate hours are the time assigned to the operation when this was originally created in Sage.
Operation time percentage – This displays a percentage based on the actual time that has been booked verses the total estimated time base on the operations.
Operations list (If more than one op) – Displayed here will be all the operations required to complete the works order. Each operation will have details displayed in the same way as the example.
Operation sequence – Here is the sequential number of the operations, operations must be completed in numerical order.
Here is an example of a Works Order will multiple operations that have not yet been completed.
When the sequence number displays in green, this shows it is complete. When it is grey, this shows it is not yet complete.
Booking on to an operation
To open an operation, simply click on the operation from the Works Order, as described in the previous section.
The ‘Operations Details’ screen will now be displayed. This screen includes much of the same data as the previous screen, with a couple of extra parts.
If an operation has already been completed and the full amount if the item logged, the ‘Start’ button at the bottom changes to a ‘rework’ button, this works exactly the same way as the ‘Start’ button, with the exception that it will add additional time for reworking the item.
