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You can use this activity to define work instruction records that you want to display to operators in the Production Operator Dashboard (POD) (see Work Instruction).

This activity allows you to do the following:

  • Specify the location or the text of work instructions on the Instruction tab page

  • Associate work instructions with a specific material, operation, routing, resource, or any combination of these objects on the Attached tab page

    Note Note

    If you use the Nonconformance feature, you can also associate work instructions with a specific nonconformance client in NC Client Maintenance (see NC Client Maintenance).

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Fields

The following tables describe fields requiring explanation:

Main Tab

Field

Description

Status

Releasable: This work instruction appears in the POD.

Frozen: This work instruction appears in the POD. Users should not change this work instruction record.

Obsolete: This work instruction does not appear in the POD. This work instruction is no longer used.

Hold: This work instruction does not appear in the POD. This status is temporary. When the hold issue is resolved, users can change the status of this record.

Note Note

The following statuses are not applicable and should not be used:

  • New

  • Hold Yield Rate

  • Hold Consec NC

  • Hold SPC Viol

  • Hold SPC Warn

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Required

If selected, the work instructions open in a new window and the operators must view these work instructions in the POD.

Note Note

You have to set the AUTO_DISPLAY_REQUIRED activity rule of Work Instruction Viewer (WI500) to YES for Required work instructions to open automatically when operator triggers Work Instruction Viewer from the POD (see Work Instruction Viewer).

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Current Version

If selected, this version of the work instruction is the current version.

Log Viewing

If selected, records the viewing of the work instruction in the work instruction log.

Change Alert

If selected, displays an icon for the work instruction in the Risk column in the Work list or Operation list of the POD.

Instruction Tab

Field

Description

Type

The format of the work instruction

URL: The work instruction is a file stored on a Web server (see Setting Up Work Instructions)

Text: The work instruction is plain text entered in the Text field.

Always Show in New Window

If selected, opens work instructions in a new window.

URL

The location of the file.

Required when you select URL in the Type field. The URL must begin with the http:// or file:// prefix.

Note Note

If the URL begins with the http:// prefix, you can place your work instruction document to the folder managed by Microsoft IIS or another Web server product. If the URL begins with the file:// prefix, you can place your work instruction document at any location that you can reach.

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To preview a URL-based work instruction, choose View button.

Text

The text of the work instruction

The system stores the text you enter in the work instruction record. Required when you select Text in the Type field.

Attached Tab

Field

Description

Sequence

The order in which the work instruction is triggered at the corresponding attachment point

Apply This Attachment to Current Version (#) of This Work Instruction

Selected: Associates your attachment points (material, operation, and so on) with the current version of the work instruction.

This allows you to keep the attachments with the current version of the work instruction, even if it changes, without having to re-enter the values on the Attachment Point Details screen.

Deselected: Associates your attachment point only with the version of the work instruction, which you have retrieved and you are now editing

Material Group

The material group to which the work instruction is attached

Material/Version

The material and its version to which the work instruction is attached

Asterisk (*): All versions

Blank version: The current version

Specific version: The specific version

Routing/Version

The routing and its version to which the work instruction is attached

Asterisk (*): All versions

Blank: The current version

Specific version: The specific version