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[Jessica Murphy]

How does everyone do this?  Anyone use shop floor control?  I’d like to hear everyone’s different set ups.  We’re killing ourselves with production scans, and I want to see if there is an easier way to do it. 

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Jessica Murphy
Master Planner
Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana
Indianapolis IN
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[Mark Prouty]

Main question is what data do you want to capture and why. You may decide to establish standards by scanning for 2-3 weeks, then setting up backflushing for some tasks, eliminating scans. Some tasks under, say, 10 or 15 minutes, you may decide are not worth the overhead to scan, so include those tasks within other tasks, or bundle with like productions. You may want to track when persons are moving to a different department – setup a never closing production order just to accumulate dept transfers. This really is a process design problem.

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Mark Prouty
Programmer / Analyst
ANGI Energy Systems
Janesville WI
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[Jessica Murphy]

Yes.  I agree with the process design problem.  The person originally setting up all parts, routes, boms, etc, was an extremely detailed six sigma engineer.  They attempted to use the system as an efficiency reporting system rather than an ERP system.  My goal would be to eliminate redundant scans, and have it set up for when a pallet/container is complete and/or end of day scans (and even with that I slightly cringe).  On jobs that have multiple employees, either all work is scanned to one person, or the finished good is divided up evenly against the workers and scanned that way.  

To add to all the above, we also have individuals clocking into each production order, which would be fine if people stayed in the same job for 8 hours.  However, we have some areas where people clock into 5+ production orders a day. 

I just want to make it cleaner.  Our workforce is not highly skilled and due to our mission, we have high turnover.  

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Jessica Murphy
Master Planner
Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana
Indianapolis IN
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