I recently showed some users that have their own work PCs how to use Office MES to log their time and quantity. In the past all users would go to a central data collection PC that only runs the MES. They would punch in the employee ID, clock in, and start production activity for a job.
I attached the Epicor user ID to the correct employee ID (in User Account Security Maintenance > Company > Detail > Employee), however this is when those users could no longer use the data collection computer. When they type in their employee ID at the MES, it prompts them to login as their Epicor user and password.
Did I miss something in the setup? I expect that uses with an employee ID can use that ID to log time against a job anywhere. Either at their desk using office MES, or at the data collection PC using regular MES.
Thanks for your time!
Nate
Nope, that is what happens when you link an employee to a login. They can still use an MES station, they just need to log in with their standard Epicor credentials.
They can only do this if I let them run multiple sessions, since they are always logged in at their PC. I just thought it would be the same for them using the data collection PC. Now it takes more steps for them to log time unless that are at their desk. I guess I can see how this is “working as designed”.
How did you set up the MES users ? Specific by employee or a generic user. I wanted to do a generic user but i noticed it does use the user info for example in inspection processing, Stamp. Do i need to create specific user for people using inspection processing ? Are MES users license concurent licenses so i can have any number of user logged in at the same time corresponding to the licenses i have ?
People on the shop floor have to log their time in one of three data collection PCs. These are logged in to Epicor MES as a generic data collection user. That Epicor window stays open all the time. Individual users have employee IDs, created in employee maintenance. They use this ID to log time in the MES. So all time is tracked to specific users, but they can all use the same data collection account to log the data in Epicor. If each user has access to their own PC, then you could link their employee ID and their user ID so that they automatically log in to MES.
The employeeID allows the user to log time, while the userID allows access to various other parts of Epicor. I am not sure about your other questions.
Have you created Inspectors in your environment? I could be misremembering, but I thought all inspections required the employee to select an inspector.
Yes, i did create some different inspectors. But when using inspection processing. there is a date/user stamp available. This stamps use the user info not the employee.
