Earned Standards
You use the setup and run standards to determine how long a task should take. When actual work represented by the standards is accomplished by a production operator, they are said to have earned the standards. Earned standards represent the amount of work achieved as measured against the standards.
You claim partial credit for setup and run standard time for an operation and/or an SFC number in the Earned Standards
plug-in (see Earned Standards Plug-In). This
can be useful in the following cases:
When multiple operators are working jointly on the same operation/SFC number and need to divide the standards amongst themselves
When an operator must stop work on an incomplete operation/SFC number and would like to record his standards for the amount of work he accomplished, especially when there are long processing times
This ensures that performance tracking, status to management and reporting are accurate. You can use the data collected from earned standards reporting for the following:
Efficiency, variance, manpower forecasting, and capacity analysis
Providing percent complete of a sub assembly or final assembly in support of finite scheduling or accounting systems where progress payments are made
In a typical production setting, different roles and departments take part in the process of maintaining, earning and reporting earned standards. Industrial engineers typically maintain the setup and run standards. Production operators earn the standards. Engineers, supervisors and business managers view reports that contain data resulting from earned standards transactions and calculations. Supervisors monitor realization and assess schedule impacts through visibility to partial completion values.
Prerequisites
You have set up Earned Standards
(see Setting Up Earned Standards).
Integration
When you use the Change Production
feature to change the material and version for an SFC number, then the standards values from the new material and version are used for the SFC number unless a new standards value is less than the corresponding current earned
standards value. If it is less, then the system sets the standards value for the SFC number to the corresponding current earned standards value.
When you use the Change Production
feature to change the routing for an SFC number, the system attempts to move the operation level claimed or awarded standards from the old routing to the new one.
The system compares each operation name from the new routing with each operation name from the old routing and proceeds as follows:
If there is only one match, then the earned standards data is copied from the old routing operation to the new routing operation regardless of the routing step ID.
If there are multiple operation name matches, then the step ID is used to find the correct match.
If there is an exact match, then the earned standards data is moved from the old routing operation to the new routing operation.
If there is no exact match of the operation name and step ID then the earned standards data from the first matched operation from the old routing is moved to the new routing operation.
Anytime earned standards data for an operation is used from the old routing, that operation is marked so as not to be included in any further comparisons.
On the new routing, any new operations added (no match with an operation on the old routing) will have their standards set by
Change Production
processing (using the same logic as when a new SFC number is created). If an operation no longer exists on the new routing, then the claimed or awarded standards will be left with the old routing, and are still valid and displayed in reports or exports.
For more information about Change Production feature, see Change Production.
Features
Earn standards contain the following features:
Claiming and unclaiming setup and run time standards for an SFC number or operation
You define the setup and run standards the
Scheduling Standards Maintenance
activity and apply them to the SFC number or operation when the shop order is created. You can also unclaim previously claimed and awarded standards. For more information, see Creation and Display of an Order with Standards and Working with Standards.Awarding unclaimed standards
The
Award Unclaim Standards
activity hook allows for all unclaimed standards to be awarded by the system upon the completion of an operation or the SFC number going to theDone
status (see Unclaimed Standards Awarding).Viewing information about SFC number’s earned standards actions taken during production and the details about the selected earned standards transaction in the
Earned Standards Report
(see Earned Standards Log Report and Working with Standards.
The figure below illustrates the primary flow of the earned standards processing:
