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Background documentationDetermining Labor Rules

 

You can define rules that govern how certain features of Labor Tracking work at your site, including employee attendance, default SFC LCCs, and rollup. You can set labor rules in Labor Rule Maintenance activity (see Labor Rule Maintenance).

Setting Up Attendance Rules

On the Attendance Rules tab page, you can determine the following:

  • How users perform clock-in

  • How strict the control of the employee clock in and out is

  • Whether you want Labor Tracking to automatically clock out users who forget to clock out themselves, and whether to automatically sign off users SFC numbers at clock out

To identify how the users perform clock in, define the Clock-In Control value (see Labor Rule Maintenance).

To automatically clock out user on rollup and assign the normal shift end time for this clock-out if a user does not clock out at shift end, select the Automatic Clock-Out at Shift End checkbox. Note that automatic clock-out will not be performed if the user performs work in the POD after the shift end.

To allow users to clock in on a day that is defined as non-production for their shift in User Shift Maintenance, select the Allow Clock-In on Non-Production Day checkbox. Note that supervisors can always clock employees in on non-production days using the Supervisor Clock-In/Out (LT220) activity (see Supervisor Clock-In/Out).

To define how strict the control of the employee clock in and out is, define the Clock-In/Out Range Control value (see Labor Rule Maintenance).

Note that you define shifts and clock-in and clock-out intervals in the User Shift Maintenance activity. To define whether to sign off the operator's active SFC numbers on automatic clock-out, specify the Action Applied at Clock-Out to SFCs in Work value (see Labor Rule Maintenance).

Setting Up Rollup Processing Rules

Rollup processing rules allow you to set rules for SFC labor and user labor. On the Rollup Processing tab page, you can determine the following:

  • Whether you will collect information for SFC labor, user labor, or both

  • What information you want to collect along with SFC labor information, such as cost centers, customers, materials, operations, and resources

  • How you want to track idle time between SFC numbers, and how you want to distribute labor time when operators work multiple SFC numbers

To define what labor types to summarize during the rollup, select one or both of the following options:

  • Enable SFC Labor Summarization

  • Enable User Labor Summarization

To define by what object to summarize SFC labor, select one or multiple values in the Summarize SFC Labor field or enter the custom data fields into Summarize SFC Labor by Custom Fields. To use multiple custom data fields for SFC data summarization, use a comma-delimited list.

To define by what object to summarize user labor, enter the custom data fields into Summarize User Labor by Custom Fields. To use multiple custom data fields for SFC data summarization, use a comma-delimited list.

To specify the number of days the system retains SFC labor and user labor records after approval, define it in the Labor Age field.

To indicate how to distribute the time spent on multiple SFC numbers, define the Distribution of SFC Labor Time value.

To indicate how to track the idle time between SFC numbers, define the Idle Factor for Labor Time value.

For more information, see Labor Rule Maintenance.

What is SFC Labor?

SFC labor is the amount of time an SFC number was worked by operators. It is the length of time for various SFC LCCs. If you use Labor Tracking for billing and cost accounting purposes, you should track SFC labor.

When the system records SFC labor, it also includes information, such as the SFC LCC, the shop order, and whether the labor was rework.

What is User Labor?

Generally, user labor is the time between a user’s clock-in and clock-out time. If you use Labor Tracking for payroll and supervisory purposes, you should track user labor.

When the system records user labor, it includes the following information:

  • Quantity of SFC numbers completed in a certain time

  • Length of time for various user LCCs

  • Whether the labor was rework

  • Time spent on specific shop orders

Running Rollup

To run this feature once or set it up to run periodically using a scheduler, run the.bat or .ksh file that comes with the product.

Caution Caution

If you schedule the ODSLaborRollup.bat file to run periodically, remove the last command (Pause) from the file.

End of the caution.

For more information about rollup, see Rollup Examples.

Exporting Rollup Information

You can export the information rollup summaries to .xml files for use with other systems.