2.7 Labour productivity

When an order is running on the line, there are always some people working to keep the line running. Reporting how much ‘human resources’ was involved helps you better understand:

• Total amount of man-hours

• See how high OEE can be achieved with different human involvement

• Compare changeover duration with different amount of human involvement

Man-hours can be provided for any activity running on the line - order, changeover, cleaning etc. You can open it by clicking on ‘Report resources’, for any running activity:

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Expected man-hours

To specify expected effort for each order, define it in ‘Line configuration’ for SKUs:

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You can define how much man-hours is needed for a volume of production. When an order for some volume is created - the expected man-hours are calculated using this indicator. If specified volume is in a different unit then the order, it will be converted using the packing structure definition.

(e.g. Man-hours: 8, Volume: 100, Volume UoM: car - means that an order for 350 car, will be expected to consume 28 man-hours)

This values can be also imported: Preparing a Material Master Import ✔️

You can see the calculated expected man-hours after an order is started:

Inputing labour data

Similarly to manual production input, human resources can be reported manually in the activity resource utilisation page:

The beginning of the time scope marks the activity start. Then, the consequent time frames confirm the amount of human time utilised in this period.

1. Selecting the time period

There are two modes in reporting manual entries.

• Total - is used for confirmation of all data from the beginning of the activity. For labour, it means confirming the total workload for all personnel from the beginning of the activity. For manual production, it means confirming the total production / waste on the order

• Increment - in this mode you care only about the period between the last entry and the selected time. Especially useful for long-running activities, when you would like to confirm only “last shift” or “last hour”, without knowledge about past human involvement or production.

You can use both modes interchangeably for the same order.

If there are some previous entries, “Increment” mode will show them on the timeline:

After an entry for a specified time period is added, no other entries can overlap this period of time. So make sure that you have captured a complete set of data. Manual reporting for labour and production effectively creates a complete log of entries, without any holes or overlaps.

New entries can be a delayed, or even report a bit into the future. To select the time until which man-hours or production will be reported, you can grab and move the end of the bar:

To select a more precise date, you can hold ‘Alt’ (or ‘Option’) while moving the bar, or click on the date and select it manually:

Additional helper buttons will appear depending on the current time:

• End of current hour / Previous hour - depending of if the current hour is about to end, or has just ended

• Current shift / Previous shift - depending if the shift is about to end, or has just ended

You can use them to quickly adjust the desired scope.

2. Providing man-hours

The man-hours form will let you describe who has been working on the activity for the selected period of time. Worker names / codes can be entered for tracking and reporting purposes. If worker name is omitted, PackOS will generate automatically ‘Worker 1’, ‘Worker 2’ - anonymous names for them.

To quickly adjust the number of workers, use the input at the top:

To quickly adjust the duration for each worker, use the top hours & minutes input. You can also adjust the duration for individual workers independently:

Keep in mind the following constraints when declaring duration for each worker:

1. No worker could have worked longer than the selected period of time. If I am reporting man-hours for
   10:00 - 14:00, no worker could’ve worked longer than 4 hours. PackOS will reject such entry.

2. In “Total” mode, no worker could have worked less time, than in the previous entries. Suppose ‘John’ has worked for 4h in the morning shift, when reporting the next shift (for the same order), I cannot insert time shorter than 4h for John. When you switch between Total/Increment, PackOS will pre-fill the form with the sum of previous entries for each worker.

You can see the history of entered values below the form:

It will only show Increments - how many man-hours has been added to the order in this period of time. Even if reporting in ‘Total’ mode - they are converted to increments. You can hover over the value to see the details.

If any of the entries prevents you to correct the data, or is simply a mistake - you can remove it with a trash button. The reported period of time will become available again.

You can only remove the last entry, as subsequent entries might have relayed on the previous values. But you can continue removing them as long as you need.

Completed orders

You can view man-hours reported for completed orders in the order summary form, after you click on a completed order:

By using te ‘Report resources’ button at the bottom - you can make adjustments to the data displayed.

Related Permissions

• Order management - allows full control over orders and other activities, includes all actions below

  • Order lifecycle management - allows activating / starting / stopping orders, this includes providing total production at the end of the order

  • Confirming current production - allows manhours & production adjustments for ongoing orders

  • Complete order manual production access - allows manhours & production adjustments on completed orders

• Master Material management - allows defining expected effort for SKUs