Lock Single Operation

Kinetic ERP
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Hello,

Has anyone had success locking a single operation?
I can only seem to find an option to lock the entire job.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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Welcome Kyle!
I hate to be a downer on your first post, but I don’t believe this is possible. You can move a single operation from the Job Scheduling Board. But I don’t see any way to lock an op.

Why would you want to lock an op, but not the job? What’s the goal?

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The goal is to have a realistic view of what is running on machines.
We sometimes fill gaps in longer running jobs with shorter operations for others.

I want to be able to move a single operation in order to keep an accurate schedule on other machines without changing priority or run order but still track what is actually happening.

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I imagine you could do it. Perhaps a BPM on the scheduling engine to throw an exception on your condition. If it does work - I’d be wary of the potential side effects

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@kpotts I think you can do this manually with the job scheduling board and if that works then there a method to do it in code that I don’t remember off the top of my head.

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Also - If i’m not mistaken, as soon as someone clocks into that operation it’s considered locked and will not get moved on the schedule when the scheduler runs again. So really, you do not have to even move it o the schedule, just get someone to clock into the OP and it will now be active and ‘moved’ on the schedule.

I say this because in early conversations, we were told that the ‘available’ work queue was just for this purpose. If a worked finds themselves with nothing to do, go get something from that queue and clock in. The scheduler will then treat it as an in-process Op and keep it in place in the schedule.

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We don’t have a way for someone to “click” into an op.

All of our orders are physical kanban.

Is there a way to tell the system what we are currently working on without shop floor input and manipulating the job board?

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So no one is clocking time to the job/Ops? Then no, there is no way to do it.

I assume you mean you just had out Job Travelers and ignore the schedule and the queue altogether? And then someone manually closes the job when someone tells you it’s complete?

Maybe you should consider using the system’s scheduler and MES input screens…

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We had talked about trying MES but have met some resistance at higher levels.

I will again suggest that given the new information.

Thanks, all.