Use the Enhanced Work Execution Capabilities at Workstations

Welcome to the demo of the 24D feature, use the enhanced work execution capabilities at workstations. With this update, you get various enhancements to increase your productivity and efficiency while executing production at a workstation.

With this update, manufacturing engineers can upload workstation specific documents such as standard operating procedures, checklists, and safety guidelines to new or existing workstations. These documents are then made available to the production operators while they are executing production at the workstation.

You can now enable faster check-in to a workstation by generating direct links and making it available for the operators at the workstation clients. You can also generate workstation bar code labels and affix it at the workstation so that the production operators can scan and quickly check in to the workstation.

Production operators can now enter reject reason code while rejecting quantities or serial numbers during operation execution at a workstation. They can also over complete or under complete quantities for the first or last work order operation of a work order. This would be dependent on the over complete and under complete tolerances defined in the setup. Operators can also print label for operation quantities completed at a workstation.

Let's look at some demo scenarios for the features. We will upload workstation attachments and view them while executing operations at a workstation. We will then generate direct links for checking in to a workstation, generate workstation barcode labels, enter reject reason codes while rejecting quantities during execution, and finally, print labels for operation quantities completed at a workstation.

First, let's look at how the workstation labels are generated with their barcode. I have navigated to the workstation task in work definition work area. I select the workstations for which I am interested to print the workstation labels. I click on Print Workstation Barcode. A PDF is automatically downloaded to my browser, which contains the workstation details and the barcode. This barcode can be then affixed at the workstation, and the operators can use it to scan and then check into the workstation quickly.

Now let's generate a direct link for a workstation to help operators check into it faster. I select a workstation and click on the Generate Workstation Link action from the menu. A panel drawer opens with the direct link for that particular workstation. I copy the link. This link can now be made available as a shortcut on the workstation clients. Production operators can use it to directly come to the check-in page of the workstation.

Now let's look at the workstation attachments functionality. I select a workstation and open its detailed view. Under the attachments section, I click on the Add action. A panel drawer opens up where I can select an attachment that I would like to upload, or I can drag and drop from my explorer.

Documents of various types such as images, videos, PDFs can be uploaded. You can also add an external URL which you would like the operators to be able to navigate to at the workstation. URLs accessible to the operator within the company network can be added as the attachment.

Now let's look at the attachments view for the operator. I have navigated to the execute production at a workstation task in work execution work area. And I am going to launch the shortcut that we had generated earlier with the direct link. I check in to a workstation, and now I can look at the attachment that was uploaded by the manufacturing engineer for this workstation. I'm going to preview the image that was uploaded. Currently, preview functionality is supported only for documents of type image.

Now let's see how a production operator can provide reject reason code while rejecting quantities during execution. I select a work order and begin executing a work order operation. During execution, I would like to reject some quantities. I select the quantities that I am going to reject.

From the dropdown, I select a reject reason code. The lookup reason codes can be configured by adding lookup values to the standard lookup type ORA_WIE_REASON_CODE. This can be accomplished in the functional setup manager task manager standard lookups.

Now let's see how you can print labels while executing work order operations. Under the quantity reporting section, enter the quantities you would like to complete. Check the print label check box and click on complete. The label content is generated in PDF format based on the template layout specified in the default label layout template planned parameter.

If the planned parameter print product labels using external applications is unchecked, only then would the labels be printed in native PDF rendering. Otherwise, a business event would be generated to print labels using external applications. Refer to the 18C feature description of integrate with external label printing systems using business events feature. This concludes the demo for the functionalities delivered in this feature. For in-depth details, visit the cloud readiness website for Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing. Thank you.