Author Work Instruction Tasks for a Work Definition Operation

Create work instruction tasks that guide the production operator through an operation when executing production at the workstation.

These digital instructions integrated into the manufacturing workflow let manufacturing engineers maintain the latest instruction set for the production operators, ensuring process compliance and quality.

Using the Redwood user experience for work definitions, you can define a set of work instructions for a work order operation. Page layout templates let you display text with an embedded image or PDF file for each work instruction. You then map the work instructions into a series of tasks.

When a work order that uses the work definition is released for production, these work instructions can be viewed by factory workers when executing production at a workstation.

To create work instructions for an operation:

1. Navigate to the Work Definition work area.
2. From the Tasks menu, select Manage Work Definitions.
3. Click the Work Definition Name for which you wish to define task instructions.
4. Select the Instructions tab near the bottom of the page.
5. On the Instructions page, click anywhere in the operation row for which you wish to define the instruction and click Add Instruction.

   The New Instruction page appears. The Operation field shows the operation that you selected.

6. Supply an Instruction Name.
7. Choose a one-column or two-column layout for your instruction.

   You usually use a two-column layout to have an image alongside the text instructions.

8. Click Add to add text or media to your chosen layout.
9. Click Create to finish creating the instruction.

   You can repeat the preceding steps to create more instructions for the same operation, or for other operations in the work definition.

Next, you need to add your instructions to a task for the instructions to appear during operation execution.

To define tasks containing digital work instructions for an operation:

1. On the Instructions page, click anywhere in the operation row that contains the instruction and click Define Tasks.
2. Click Add under Tasks.
3. In the New Task dialog, supply a Task Name and Description.

   For example, an assembly operation task may be called Prepare for Assembly.

4. Select the sequence number of the task in case you are creating multiple tasks for an operation.
5. Select the Instruction that you created for the operation.

   You can repeat the preceding steps to create more tasks for the same operation in case you have multiple instruction sets for the operation.

   When you navigate back to the Instructions page, the Task Defined column shows a check mark against the instruction.